escompter
French
Pronunciation
Verb
escompter
- to discount because of a payment by anticipation
- to anticipate, to be in the hope of
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Enfin Lheureux expliqua qu'il avait un sien ami Vinçart, banquier à Rouen, lequel allait escompter ces quatre billets, puis il remettrait lui-même à Madame le surplus de la dette réelle.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of escompter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | escompter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | escomptant /ɛs.kɔ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | escompté /ɛs.kɔ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | escompte /ɛs.kɔ̃t/ |
escomptes /ɛs.kɔ̃t/ |
escompte /ɛs.kɔ̃t/ |
escomptons /ɛs.kɔ̃.tɔ̃/ |
escomptez /ɛs.kɔ̃.te/ |
escomptent /ɛs.kɔ̃t/ |
| imperfect | escomptais /ɛs.kɔ̃.tɛ/ |
escomptais /ɛs.kɔ̃.tɛ/ |
escomptait /ɛs.kɔ̃.tɛ/ |
escomptions /ɛs.kɔ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
escomptiez /ɛs.kɔ̃.tje/ |
escomptaient /ɛs.kɔ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | escomptai /ɛs.kɔ̃.te/ |
escomptas /ɛs.kɔ̃.ta/ |
escompta /ɛs.kɔ̃.ta/ |
escomptâmes /ɛs.kɔ̃.tam/ |
escomptâtes /ɛs.kɔ̃.tat/ |
escomptèrent /ɛs.kɔ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | escompterai /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁe/ |
escompteras /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁa/ |
escomptera /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁa/ |
escompterons /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
escompterez /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁe/ |
escompteront /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | escompterais /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁɛ/ |
escompterais /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁɛ/ |
escompterait /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁɛ/ |
escompterions /ɛs.kɔ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
escompteriez /ɛs.kɔ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
escompteraient /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | escompte /ɛs.kɔ̃t/ |
escomptes /ɛs.kɔ̃t/ |
escompte /ɛs.kɔ̃t/ |
escomptions /ɛs.kɔ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
escomptiez /ɛs.kɔ̃.tje/ |
escomptent /ɛs.kɔ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | escomptasse /ɛs.kɔ̃.tas/ |
escomptasses /ɛs.kɔ̃.tas/ |
escomptât /ɛs.kɔ̃.ta/ |
escomptassions /ɛs.kɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
escomptassiez /ɛs.kɔ̃.ta.sje/ |
escomptassent /ɛs.kɔ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | escompte /ɛs.kɔ̃t/ |
— | escomptons /ɛs.kɔ̃.tɔ̃/ |
escomptez /ɛs.kɔ̃.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “escompter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012