mâter

See also: mater, mäter, and måter

French

Etymology

From mât +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.te/ ~ /mɑ.te/

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Verb

mâter

1. to mast (put a mast on a watercraft)

Conjugation

Conjugation of mâter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mâter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mâtant /ma.tɑ̃/ or /mɑ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		mâté /ma.te/ or /mɑ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mâte /mat/ or /mɑt/	mâtes /mat/ or /mɑt/	mâte /mat/ or /mɑt/	mâtons /ma.tɔ̃/ or /mɑ.tɔ̃/	mâtez /ma.te/ or /mɑ.te/	mâtent /mat/ or /mɑt/
	imperfect	mâtais /ma.tɛ/ or /mɑ.tɛ/	mâtais /ma.tɛ/ or /mɑ.tɛ/	mâtait /ma.tɛ/ or /mɑ.tɛ/	mâtions /ma.tjɔ̃/ or /mɑ.tjɔ̃/	mâtiez /ma.tje/ or /mɑ.tje/	mâtaient /ma.tɛ/ or /mɑ.tɛ/
	past historic2	mâtai /ma.te/ or /mɑ.te/	mâtas /ma.ta/ or /mɑ.ta/	mâta /ma.ta/ or /mɑ.ta/	mâtâmes /ma.tam/ or /mɑ.tam/	mâtâtes /ma.tat/ or /mɑ.tat/	mâtèrent /ma.tɛʁ/ or /mɑ.tɛʁ/
	future	mâterai /ma.tʁe/ or /mɑ.tʁe/	mâteras /ma.tʁa/ or /mɑ.tʁa/	mâtera /ma.tʁa/ or /mɑ.tʁa/	mâterons /ma.tʁɔ̃/ or /mɑ.tʁɔ̃/	mâterez /ma.tʁe/ or /mɑ.tʁe/	mâteront /ma.tʁɔ̃/ or /mɑ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mâterais /ma.tʁɛ/ or /mɑ.tʁɛ/	mâterais /ma.tʁɛ/ or /mɑ.tʁɛ/	mâterait /ma.tʁɛ/ or /mɑ.tʁɛ/	mâterions /ma.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /mɑ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	mâteriez /ma.tə.ʁje/ or /mɑ.tə.ʁje/	mâteraient /ma.tʁɛ/ or /mɑ.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	mâte /mat/ or /mɑt/	mâtes /mat/ or /mɑt/	mâte /mat/ or /mɑt/	mâtions /ma.tjɔ̃/ or /mɑ.tjɔ̃/	mâtiez /ma.tje/ or /mɑ.tje/	mâtent /mat/ or /mɑt/
	imperfect2	mâtasse /ma.tas/ or /mɑ.tas/	mâtasses /ma.tas/ or /mɑ.tas/	mâtât /ma.ta/ or /mɑ.ta/	mâtassions /ma.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /mɑ.ta.sjɔ̃/	mâtassiez /ma.ta.sje/ or /mɑ.ta.sje/	mâtassent /ma.tas/ or /mɑ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mâte /mat/ or /mɑt/	—	mâtons /ma.tɔ̃/ or /mɑ.tɔ̃/	mâtez /ma.te/ or /mɑ.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).

Derived terms

• démâter
• mâtage
• mâtement
• remâter

Further reading

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

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Pronunciation

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Verb

mâter

1. (Jersey) to stand (potatoes)