affecter
English
Etymology
Noun
affecter (plural affecters)
- A person who affects to know something or to be something.
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French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin affectāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.fɛk.te/
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Verb
affecter
- (transitive) to feign, affect (an emotion, etc.)
- to allocate (something),
- (transitive) to assign someone, to post someone [with à ‘to’]
- (transitive) to affect, influence
- La mort de sa mère l'a fort affecté. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Conjugation
Conjugation of affecter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | affecter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | affectant /a.fɛk.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | affecté /a.fɛk.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | affecte /a.fɛkt/ |
affectes /a.fɛkt/ |
affecte /a.fɛkt/ |
affectons /a.fɛk.tɔ̃/ |
affectez /a.fɛk.te/ |
affectent /a.fɛkt/ |
| imperfect | affectais /a.fɛk.tɛ/ |
affectais /a.fɛk.tɛ/ |
affectait /a.fɛk.tɛ/ |
affections /a.fɛk.tjɔ̃/ |
affectiez /a.fɛk.tje/ |
affectaient /a.fɛk.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | affectai /a.fɛk.te/ |
affectas /a.fɛk.ta/ |
affecta /a.fɛk.ta/ |
affectâmes /a.fɛk.tam/ |
affectâtes /a.fɛk.tat/ |
affectèrent /a.fɛk.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | affecterai /a.fɛk.tə.ʁe/ |
affecteras /a.fɛk.tə.ʁa/ |
affectera /a.fɛk.tə.ʁa/ |
affecterons /a.fɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
affecterez /a.fɛk.tə.ʁe/ |
affecteront /a.fɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | affecterais /a.fɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ |
affecterais /a.fɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ |
affecterait /a.fɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ |
affecterions /a.fɛk.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
affecteriez /a.fɛk.tə.ʁje/ |
affecteraient /a.fɛk.tə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | affecte /a.fɛkt/ |
affectes /a.fɛkt/ |
affecte /a.fɛkt/ |
affections /a.fɛk.tjɔ̃/ |
affectiez /a.fɛk.tje/ |
affectent /a.fɛkt/ |
| imperfect2 | affectasse /a.fɛk.tas/ |
affectasses /a.fɛk.tas/ |
affectât /a.fɛk.ta/ |
affectassions /a.fɛk.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
affectassiez /a.fɛk.ta.sje/ |
affectassent /a.fɛk.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | affecte /a.fɛkt/ |
— | affectons /a.fɛk.tɔ̃/ |
affectez /a.fɛk.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
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Further reading
- “affecter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Latin
Verb
affecter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of affectō