appointer
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]appointer (plural appointers)
- A person who appoints (in any sense).
Translations
[edit]A person who appoints someone or something.
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[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French apointier. By surface analysis, a- + point + -er. Possibly corresponds to a Late Latin appunctāre, from Latin ad + punctum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]appointer
- to salary (attribute a salary to a position)
- to appoint (attribute a job, a position to someone)
- to sharpen into a point
- appointer un crayon
- to sharpen a pencil
- (reflexive, s'appointer) to unite; to become united
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of appointer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | appointer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | appointant /a.pwɛ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | appointé /a.pwɛ̃.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | appointe /a.pwɛ̃t/ |
appointes /a.pwɛ̃t/ |
appointe /a.pwɛ̃t/ |
appointons /a.pwɛ̃.tɔ̃/ |
appointez /a.pwɛ̃.te/ |
appointent /a.pwɛ̃t/ |
imperfect | appointais /a.pwɛ̃.tɛ/ |
appointais /a.pwɛ̃.tɛ/ |
appointait /a.pwɛ̃.tɛ/ |
appointions /a.pwɛ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
appointiez /a.pwɛ̃.tje/ |
appointaient /a.pwɛ̃.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | appointai /a.pwɛ̃.te/ |
appointas /a.pwɛ̃.ta/ |
appointa /a.pwɛ̃.ta/ |
appointâmes /a.pwɛ̃.tam/ |
appointâtes /a.pwɛ̃.tat/ |
appointèrent /a.pwɛ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
future | appointerai /a.pwɛ̃.tʁe/ |
appointeras /a.pwɛ̃.tʁa/ |
appointera /a.pwɛ̃.tʁa/ |
appointerons /a.pwɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
appointerez /a.pwɛ̃.tʁe/ |
appointeront /a.pwɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | appointerais /a.pwɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
appointerais /a.pwɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
appointerait /a.pwɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
appointerions /a.pwɛ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
appointeriez /a.pwɛ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
appointeraient /a.pwɛ̃.tʁɛ/ | |
(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 | appointe /a.pwɛ̃t/ |
appointes /a.pwɛ̃t/ |
appointe /a.pwɛ̃t/ |
appointions /a.pwɛ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
appointiez /a.pwɛ̃.tje/ |
appointent /a.pwɛ̃t/ |
imperfect2 | appointasse /a.pwɛ̃.tas/ |
appointasses /a.pwɛ̃.tas/ |
appointât /a.pwɛ̃.ta/ |
appointassions /a.pwɛ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
appointassiez /a.pwɛ̃.ta.sje/ |
appointassent /a.pwɛ̃.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | appointe /a.pwɛ̃t/ |
— | appointons /a.pwɛ̃.tɔ̃/ |
appointez /a.pwɛ̃.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
[edit]- “appointer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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