corseter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.sə.te/
• Rhymes: -e

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Verb

corseter

1. to put on a corset

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il corsète and the third-person singular future indicative il corsètera.

Conjugation of corseter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	corseter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	corsetant /kɔʁ.sə.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		corseté /kɔʁ.sə.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	corsète /kɔʁ.sɛt/	corsètes /kɔʁ.sɛt/	corsète /kɔʁ.sɛt/	corsetons /kɔʁ.sə.tɔ̃/	corsetez /kɔʁ.sə.te/	corsètent /kɔʁ.sɛt/
	imperfect	corsetais /kɔʁ.sə.tɛ/	corsetais /kɔʁ.sə.tɛ/	corsetait /kɔʁ.sə.tɛ/	corsetions /kɔʁ.sə.tjɔ̃/	corsetiez /kɔʁ.sə.tje/	corsetaient /kɔʁ.sə.tɛ/
	past historic2	corsetai /kɔʁ.sə.te/	corsetas /kɔʁ.sə.ta/	corseta /kɔʁ.sə.ta/	corsetâmes /kɔʁ.sə.tam/	corsetâtes /kɔʁ.sə.tat/	corsetèrent /kɔʁ.sə.tɛʁ/
	future	corsèterai /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁe/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁe/	corsèteras /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁa/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁa/	corsètera /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁa/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁa/	corsèterons /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁɔ̃/	corsèterez /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁe/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁe/	corsèteront /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	corsèterais /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁɛ/	corsèterais /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁɛ/	corsèterait /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔʁ.se.tʁɛ/	corsèterions /kɔʁ.sɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kɔʁ.se.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	corsèteriez /kɔʁ.sɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /kɔʁ.se.tə.ʁje/	corsèteraient /kɔʁ.sɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kɔʁ.se.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	corsète /kɔʁ.sɛt/	corsètes /kɔʁ.sɛt/	corsète /kɔʁ.sɛt/	corsetions /kɔʁ.sə.tjɔ̃/	corsetiez /kɔʁ.sə.tje/	corsètent /kɔʁ.sɛt/
	imperfect2	corsetasse /kɔʁ.sə.tas/	corsetasses /kɔʁ.sə.tas/	corsetât /kɔʁ.sə.ta/	corsetassions /kɔʁ.sə.ta.sjɔ̃/	corsetassiez /kɔʁ.sə.ta.sje/	corsetassent /kɔʁ.sə.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	corsète /kɔʁ.sɛt/	—	corsetons /kɔʁ.sə.tɔ̃/	corsetez /kɔʁ.sə.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

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

Anagrams

• escorter