colleter

English

Noun

colleter (plural colleters)

1. Alternative form of colletor

Anagrams

• Recollet

French

Etymology

From collet.

Pronunciation

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Verb

colleter

1. to wrap round the collar
2. (transitive) to collar (grab by the collar)

Conjugation

With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.

Conjugation of colleter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	colleter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	colletant /kɔl.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		colleté /kɔl.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	collette or collète /kɔ.lɛt/	collettes or collètes /kɔ.lɛt/	collette or collète /kɔ.lɛt/	colletons /kɔl.tɔ̃/	colletez /kɔl.te/	collettent or collètent /kɔ.lɛt/
	imperfect	colletais /kɔl.tɛ/	colletais /kɔl.tɛ/	colletait /kɔl.tɛ/	colletions /kɔ.lə.tjɔ̃/	colletiez /kɔ.lə.tje/	colletaient /kɔl.tɛ/
	past historic2	colletai /kɔl.te/	colletas /kɔl.ta/	colleta /kɔl.ta/	colletâmes /kɔl.tam/	colletâtes /kɔl.tat/	colletèrent /kɔl.tɛʁ/
	future	colletterai or collèterai /kɔ.lɛ.tʁe/ or /kɔ.le.tʁe/	colletteras or collèteras /kɔ.lɛ.tʁa/ or /kɔ.le.tʁa/	collettera or collètera /kɔ.lɛ.tʁa/ or /kɔ.le.tʁa/	colletterons or collèterons /kɔ.lɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kɔ.le.tʁɔ̃/	colletterez or collèterez /kɔ.lɛ.tʁe/ or /kɔ.le.tʁe/	colletteront or collèteront /kɔ.lɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kɔ.le.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	colletterais or collèterais /kɔ.lɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔ.le.tʁɛ/	colletterais or collèterais /kɔ.lɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔ.le.tʁɛ/	colletterait or collèterait /kɔ.lɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔ.le.tʁɛ/	colletterions or collèterions /kɔ.lɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kɔ.le.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	colletteriez or collèteriez /kɔ.lɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /kɔ.le.tə.ʁje/	colletteraient or collèteraient /kɔ.lɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔ.le.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	collette or collète /kɔ.lɛt/	collettes or collètes /kɔ.lɛt/	collette or collète /kɔ.lɛt/	colletions /kɔ.lə.tjɔ̃/	colletiez /kɔ.lə.tje/	collettent or collètent /kɔ.lɛt/
	imperfect2	colletasse /kɔl.tas/	colletasses /kɔl.tas/	colletât /kɔl.ta/	colletassions /kɔl.ta.sjɔ̃/	colletassiez /kɔl.ta.sje/	colletassent /kɔl.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	collette or collète /kɔ.lɛt/	—	colletons /kɔl.tɔ̃/	colletez /kɔl.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).

Further reading

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