phosphater

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

phosphater

1. To phosphate

Conjugation

Conjugation of phosphater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	phosphater
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	phosphatant /fɔs.fa.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		phosphaté /fɔs.fa.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	phosphate /fɔs.fat/	phosphates /fɔs.fat/	phosphate /fɔs.fat/	phosphatons /fɔs.fa.tɔ̃/	phosphatez /fɔs.fa.te/	phosphatent /fɔs.fat/
	imperfect	phosphatais /fɔs.fa.tɛ/	phosphatais /fɔs.fa.tɛ/	phosphatait /fɔs.fa.tɛ/	phosphations /fɔs.fa.tjɔ̃/	phosphatiez /fɔs.fa.tje/	phosphataient /fɔs.fa.tɛ/
	past historic2	phosphatai /fɔs.fa.te/	phosphatas /fɔs.fa.ta/	phosphata /fɔs.fa.ta/	phosphatâmes /fɔs.fa.tam/	phosphatâtes /fɔs.fa.tat/	phosphatèrent /fɔs.fa.tɛʁ/
	future	phosphaterai /fɔs.fa.tʁe/	phosphateras /fɔs.fa.tʁa/	phosphatera /fɔs.fa.tʁa/	phosphaterons /fɔs.fa.tʁɔ̃/	phosphaterez /fɔs.fa.tʁe/	phosphateront /fɔs.fa.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	phosphaterais /fɔs.fa.tʁɛ/	phosphaterais /fɔs.fa.tʁɛ/	phosphaterait /fɔs.fa.tʁɛ/	phosphaterions /fɔs.fa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	phosphateriez /fɔs.fa.tə.ʁje/	phosphateraient /fɔs.fa.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	phosphate /fɔs.fat/	phosphates /fɔs.fat/	phosphate /fɔs.fat/	phosphations /fɔs.fa.tjɔ̃/	phosphatiez /fɔs.fa.tje/	phosphatent /fɔs.fat/
	imperfect2	phosphatasse /fɔs.fa.tas/	phosphatasses /fɔs.fa.tas/	phosphatât /fɔs.fa.ta/	phosphatassions /fɔs.fa.ta.sjɔ̃/	phosphatassiez /fɔs.fa.ta.sje/	phosphatassent /fɔs.fa.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	phosphate /fɔs.fat/	—	phosphatons /fɔs.fa.tɔ̃/	phosphatez /fɔs.fa.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

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