phagocyter

French

Etymology

From phagocyte +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.ɡɔ.si.te/

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Verb

phagocyter

1. (transitive, biology) to phagocytize
2. (transitive, figurative) to swallow up
   • 2022 February 24, Lucas Minisini, “A Avion, la candidature de Fabien Roussel donne des ailes aux militants”, in Le Monde‎^[1]:

     Cette commune du Pas-de-Calais est l’un des derniers bastions communistes d’une région phagocytée par l’extrême droite.

     This commune in Pas-de-Calais is one of the last bastions of communism in a region swallowed up by the far right.

Conjugation

Conjugation of phagocyter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	phagocyter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	phagocytant /fa.ɡɔ.si.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		phagocyté /fa.ɡɔ.si.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	phagocyte /fa.ɡɔ.sit/	phagocytes /fa.ɡɔ.sit/	phagocyte /fa.ɡɔ.sit/	phagocytons /fa.ɡɔ.si.tɔ̃/	phagocytez /fa.ɡɔ.si.te/	phagocytent /fa.ɡɔ.sit/
	imperfect	phagocytais /fa.ɡɔ.si.tɛ/	phagocytais /fa.ɡɔ.si.tɛ/	phagocytait /fa.ɡɔ.si.tɛ/	phagocytions /fa.ɡɔ.si.tjɔ̃/	phagocytiez /fa.ɡɔ.si.tje/	phagocytaient /fa.ɡɔ.si.tɛ/
	past historic2	phagocytai /fa.ɡɔ.si.te/	phagocytas /fa.ɡɔ.si.ta/	phagocyta /fa.ɡɔ.si.ta/	phagocytâmes /fa.ɡɔ.si.tam/	phagocytâtes /fa.ɡɔ.si.tat/	phagocytèrent /fa.ɡɔ.si.tɛʁ/
	future	phagocyterai /fa.ɡɔ.si.tʁe/	phagocyteras /fa.ɡɔ.si.tʁa/	phagocytera /fa.ɡɔ.si.tʁa/	phagocyterons /fa.ɡɔ.si.tʁɔ̃/	phagocyterez /fa.ɡɔ.si.tʁe/	phagocyteront /fa.ɡɔ.si.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	phagocyterais /fa.ɡɔ.si.tʁɛ/	phagocyterais /fa.ɡɔ.si.tʁɛ/	phagocyterait /fa.ɡɔ.si.tʁɛ/	phagocyterions /fa.ɡɔ.si.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	phagocyteriez /fa.ɡɔ.si.tə.ʁje/	phagocyteraient /fa.ɡɔ.si.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	phagocyte /fa.ɡɔ.sit/	phagocytes /fa.ɡɔ.sit/	phagocyte /fa.ɡɔ.sit/	phagocytions /fa.ɡɔ.si.tjɔ̃/	phagocytiez /fa.ɡɔ.si.tje/	phagocytent /fa.ɡɔ.sit/
	imperfect2	phagocytasse /fa.ɡɔ.si.tas/	phagocytasses /fa.ɡɔ.si.tas/	phagocytât /fa.ɡɔ.si.ta/	phagocytassions /fa.ɡɔ.si.ta.sjɔ̃/	phagocytassiez /fa.ɡɔ.si.ta.sje/	phagocytassent /fa.ɡɔ.si.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	phagocyte /fa.ɡɔ.sit/	—	phagocytons /fa.ɡɔ.si.tɔ̃/	phagocytez /fa.ɡɔ.si.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

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