colporter
English
Etymology
Anglicization of colporteur, from French.
Noun
colporter (plural colporters)
- Alternative form of colporteur
French
Etymology
From Latin comportare, from comportō (“I carry”).
Verb
colporter
Conjugation
Conjugation of colporter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | colporter | avoir colporté | |||||
| gerund | en colportant | en ayant colporté | |||||
| present participle | colportant /kɔl.pɔʁ.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | colporté /kɔl.pɔʁ.te/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | colporte /kɔl.pɔʁt/ |
colportes /kɔl.pɔʁt/ |
colporte /kɔl.pɔʁt/ |
colportons /kɔl.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/ |
colportez /kɔl.pɔʁ.te/ |
colportent /kɔl.pɔʁt/ |
| imperfect | colportais /kɔl.pɔʁ.tɛ/ |
colportais /kɔl.pɔʁ.tɛ/ |
colportait /kɔl.pɔʁ.tɛ/ |
colportions /kɔl.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
colportiez /kɔl.pɔʁ.tje/ |
colportaient /kɔl.pɔʁ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | colportai /kɔl.pɔʁ.te/ |
colportas /kɔl.pɔʁ.ta/ |
colporta /kɔl.pɔʁ.ta/ |
colportâmes /kɔl.pɔʁ.tam/ |
colportâtes /kɔl.pɔʁ.tat/ |
colportèrent /kɔl.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | colporterai /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
colporteras /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
colportera /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
colporterons /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
colporterez /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
colporteront /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | colporterais /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
colporterais /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
colporterait /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
colporterions /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
colporteriez /kɔl.pɔʁ.tə.ʁje/ |
colporteraient /kɔl.pɔʁ.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 | colporte /kɔl.pɔʁt/ |
colportes /kɔl.pɔʁt/ |
colporte /kɔl.pɔʁt/ |
colportions /kɔl.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
colportiez /kɔl.pɔʁ.tje/ |
colportent /kɔl.pɔʁt/ |
| imperfect1 | colportasse /kɔl.pɔʁ.tas/ |
colportasses /kɔl.pɔʁ.tas/ |
colportât /kɔl.pɔʁ.ta/ |
colportassions /kɔl.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
colportassiez /kɔl.pɔʁ.ta.sje/ |
colportassent /kɔl.pɔʁ.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 | – | |
| — | colporte /kɔl.pɔʁt/ |
— | colportons /kɔl.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/ |
colportez /kɔl.pɔʁ.te/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
Descendants
- German: kolportieren
Further reading
- “colporter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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