péter
French
Etymology
From pet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pe.te/
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Verb
péter
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written péter-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written pèter-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
Conjugation of péter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | péter | avoir pété | |||||
| gerund | en pétant | en ayant pété | |||||
| present participle | pétant /pe.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | pété /pe.te/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | pète /pɛt/ |
pètes /pɛt/ |
pète /pɛt/ |
pétons /pe.tɔ̃/ |
pétez /pe.te/ |
pètent /pɛt/ |
| imperfect | pétais /pe.tɛ/ |
pétais /pe.tɛ/ |
pétait /pe.tɛ/ |
pétions /pe.tjɔ̃/ |
pétiez /pe.tje/ |
pétaient /pe.tɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | pétai /pe.te/ |
pétas /pe.ta/ |
péta /pe.ta/ |
pétâmes /pe.tam/ |
pétâtes /pe.tat/ |
pétèrent /pe.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | pèterai or péterai /pɛ.tʁe/ |
pèteras or péteras /pɛ.tʁa/ |
pètera or pétera /pɛ.tʁa/ |
pèterons or péterons /pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
pèterez or péterez /pɛ.tʁe/ |
pèteront or péteront /pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pèterais or péterais /pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
pèterais or péterais /pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
pèterait or péterait /pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
pèterions or péterions /pɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pèteriez or péteriez /pɛ.tə.ʁje/ |
pèteraient or péteraient /pɛ.tʁɛ/ | |
| 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 | pète /pɛt/ |
pètes /pɛt/ |
pète /pɛt/ |
pétions /pe.tjɔ̃/ |
pétiez /pe.tje/ |
pètent /pɛt/ |
| imperfect1 | pétasse /pe.tas/ |
pétasses /pe.tas/ |
pétât /pe.ta/ |
pétassions /pe.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
pétassiez /pe.ta.sje/ |
pétassent /pe.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 | – | |
| — | pète /pɛt/ |
— | pétons /pe.tɔ̃/ |
pétez /pe.te/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
Derived terms
- se péter de rire
- se péter la gueule
Anagrams
Synonyms
- avoir des gaz
- lâcher une caisse
- lâcher une perle
- lâcher Médor
- lâcher une ruine
Further reading
- “péter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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