adopter
English
Etymology
Noun
adopter (plural adopters)
- one who adopts
- 2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian:
- Google says the smartglasses are still in "beta" – prototype – form, despite being openly on sale, and that it wants early adopters to buy and use them and report back problems and suggestions so it can shape the future of the product, which is expected to eventually cost about the same as the average smartphone.
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Translations
one who adopts
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.dɔp.te/
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Verb
adopter
- to adopt (claim legal ownership of a child)
- to adopt (claim ownership of a child)
- to adopt (claim a mannerism or style of someone else's)
- to vote (in politics)
Conjugation
Conjugation of adopter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | adopter | avoir adopté | |||||
| gerund | en adoptant | en ayant adopté | |||||
| present participle | adoptant /a.dɔp.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | adopté /a.dɔp.te/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | adopte /a.dɔpt/ |
adoptes /a.dɔpt/ |
adopte /a.dɔpt/ |
adoptons /a.dɔp.tɔ̃/ |
adoptez /a.dɔp.te/ |
adoptent /a.dɔpt/ |
| imperfect | adoptais /a.dɔp.tɛ/ |
adoptais /a.dɔp.tɛ/ |
adoptait /a.dɔp.tɛ/ |
adoptions /a.dɔp.tjɔ̃/ |
adoptiez /a.dɔp.tje/ |
adoptaient /a.dɔp.tɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | adoptai /a.dɔp.te/ |
adoptas /a.dɔp.ta/ |
adopta /a.dɔp.ta/ |
adoptâmes /a.dɔp.tam/ |
adoptâtes /a.dɔp.tat/ |
adoptèrent /a.dɔp.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | adopterai /a.dɔp.tə.ʁe/ |
adopteras /a.dɔp.tə.ʁa/ |
adoptera /a.dɔp.tə.ʁa/ |
adopterons /a.dɔp.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
adopterez /a.dɔp.tə.ʁe/ |
adopteront /a.dɔp.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | adopterais /a.dɔp.tə.ʁɛ/ |
adopterais /a.dɔp.tə.ʁɛ/ |
adopterait /a.dɔp.tə.ʁɛ/ |
adopterions /a.dɔp.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
adopteriez /a.dɔp.tə.ʁje/ |
adopteraient /a.dɔp.tə.ʁɛ/ | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | adopte /a.dɔpt/ |
adoptes /a.dɔpt/ |
adopte /a.dɔpt/ |
adoptions /a.dɔp.tjɔ̃/ |
adoptiez /a.dɔp.tje/ |
adoptent /a.dɔpt/ |
| imperfect1 | adoptasse /a.dɔp.tas/ |
adoptasses /a.dɔp.tas/ |
adoptât /a.dɔp.ta/ |
adoptassions /a.dɔp.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
adoptassiez /a.dɔp.ta.sje/ |
adoptassent /a.dɔp.tas/ | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | adopte /a.dɔpt/ |
— | adoptons /a.dɔp.tɔ̃/ |
adoptez /a.dɔp.te/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “adopter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
Interlingue
Verb
adopter
- to adopt
Related terms
Latin
Verb
adopter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of adoptō
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
adopter
- imperative of adoptere
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