tenter
English
Etymology
Via Old French, perhaps from Latin tentorium.
Noun
tenter (plural tenters)
Verb
tenter (third-person singular simple present tenters, present participle tentering, simple past and past participle tentered)
- (transitive) To stretch cloth on such a framework.
- (intransitive) To admit extension; to be stretchable.
- Francis Bacon
- Woollen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely.
- Francis Bacon
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French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɑ̃.te/
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Verb
tenter
Conjugation
Conjugation of tenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | tenter | avoir tenté | |||||
| gerund | en tentant | en ayant tenté | |||||
| present participle | tentant /tɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | tenté /tɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | tente /tɑ̃t/ |
tentes /tɑ̃t/ |
tente /tɑ̃t/ |
tentons /tɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
tentez /tɑ̃.te/ |
tentent /tɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect | tentais /tɑ̃.tɛ/ |
tentais /tɑ̃.tɛ/ |
tentait /tɑ̃.tɛ/ |
tentions /tɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
tentiez /tɑ̃.tje/ |
tentaient /tɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | tentai /tɑ̃.te/ |
tentas /tɑ̃.ta/ |
tenta /tɑ̃.ta/ |
tentâmes /tɑ̃.tam/ |
tentâtes /tɑ̃.tat/ |
tentèrent /tɑ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | tenterai /tɑ̃.tʁe/ |
tenteras /tɑ̃.tʁa/ |
tentera /tɑ̃.tʁa/ |
tenterons /tɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
tenterez /tɑ̃.tʁe/ |
tenteront /tɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tenterais /tɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
tenterais /tɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
tenterait /tɑ̃.tʁɛ/ |
tenterions /tɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tenteriez /tɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
tenteraient /tɑ̃.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 | tente /tɑ̃t/ |
tentes /tɑ̃t/ |
tente /tɑ̃t/ |
tentions /tɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
tentiez /tɑ̃.tje/ |
tentent /tɑ̃t/ |
| imperfect1 | tentasse /tɑ̃.tas/ |
tentasses /tɑ̃.tas/ |
tentât /tɑ̃.ta/ |
tentassions /tɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
tentassiez /tɑ̃.ta.sje/ |
tentassent /tɑ̃.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 | – | |
| — | tente /tɑ̃t/ |
— | tentons /tɑ̃.tɔ̃/ |
tentez /tɑ̃.te/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Further reading
- “tenter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
tenter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of tentō
Norman
Etymology
Verb
tenter
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