adopter

English

Etymology

From adopt +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈdɒp.tə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈdɑp.tɚ/

Noun

adopter (plural adopters)

1. one who adopts
   • 2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian:

     Google says the smartglasses are still in "beta" – prototype – form, despite being openly on sale, and that it wants early adopters to buy and use them and report back problems and suggestions so it can shape the future of the product, which is expected to eventually cost about the same as the average smartphone.

Derived terms

• early adopter
• nonadopter

 

Translations

one who adopts

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 采纳者

• Georgian: მშვილობელი (mšvilobeli), შვილად ამყვანი (švilad amq̇vani), მამობილი (mamobili), დედობილი (dedobili)
• Italian: adottatore m
• Persian: پذیرنده (fa) (pazirande), پذیرفتار (fa) (paziroftâr), اتخاذگر (etexâzgar)
• Portuguese: adotante (pt) m or f
• Spanish: adoptante (es), adoptador (es) m
• Swedish: adoptant (sv) c
• Thai: ผู้รับบุตรบุญธรรม (pûu-ráp-bùt-bun-tam)

Anagrams

• readopt

French

Etymology

From Latin adoptāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dɔp.te/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: adoptai, adopté, adoptée, adoptées, adoptés, adoptez

Verb

adopter

1. to adopt (claim legal ownership of a child)
2. to adopt (claim ownership of a child)
3. to adopt (claim a mannerism or style of someone else's)
4. (politics) to vote

Conjugation

Conjugation of adopter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	adopter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	adoptant /a.dɔp.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		adopté /a.dɔp.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	adopte /a.dɔpt/	adoptes /a.dɔpt/	adopte /a.dɔpt/	adoptons /a.dɔp.tɔ̃/	adoptez /a.dɔp.te/	adoptent /a.dɔpt/
	imperfect	adoptais /a.dɔp.tɛ/	adoptais /a.dɔp.tɛ/	adoptait /a.dɔp.tɛ/	adoptions /a.dɔp.tjɔ̃/	adoptiez /a.dɔp.tje/	adoptaient /a.dɔp.tɛ/
	past historic2	adoptai /a.dɔp.te/	adoptas /a.dɔp.ta/	adopta /a.dɔp.ta/	adoptâmes /a.dɔp.tam/	adoptâtes /a.dɔp.tat/	adoptèrent /a.dɔp.tɛʁ/
	future	adopterai /a.dɔp.tə.ʁe/	adopteras /a.dɔp.tə.ʁa/	adoptera /a.dɔp.tə.ʁa/	adopterons /a.dɔp.tə.ʁɔ̃/	adopterez /a.dɔp.tə.ʁe/	adopteront /a.dɔp.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	adopterais /a.dɔp.tə.ʁɛ/	adopterais /a.dɔp.tə.ʁɛ/	adopterait /a.dɔp.tə.ʁɛ/	adopterions /a.dɔp.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	adopteriez /a.dɔp.tə.ʁje/	adopteraient /a.dɔp.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	adopte /a.dɔpt/	adoptes /a.dɔpt/	adopte /a.dɔpt/	adoptions /a.dɔp.tjɔ̃/	adoptiez /a.dɔp.tje/	adoptent /a.dɔpt/
	imperfect2	adoptasse /a.dɔp.tas/	adoptasses /a.dɔp.tas/	adoptât /a.dɔp.ta/	adoptassions /a.dɔp.ta.sjɔ̃/	adoptassiez /a.dɔp.ta.sje/	adoptassent /a.dɔp.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	adopte /a.dɔpt/	—	adoptons /a.dɔp.tɔ̃/	adoptez /a.dɔp.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• adoption

Further reading

• “adopter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• déporta

Latin

Verb

adopter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of adoptō

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

adopter

1. imperative of adoptere