charpenter

French

Etymology

Either a derivative of Old French charpent (compare modern charpente) or from a Vulgar Latin *carpentāre, from Latin carpentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.te/

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Verb

charpenter

1. to tailor, to tailor make

Conjugation

Conjugation of charpenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	charpenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	charpentant /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		charpenté /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	charpente /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t/	charpentes /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t/	charpente /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t/	charpentons /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tɔ̃/	charpentez /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.te/	charpentent /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t/
	imperfect	charpentais /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tɛ/	charpentais /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tɛ/	charpentait /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tɛ/	charpentions /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	charpentiez /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tje/	charpentaient /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	charpentai /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.te/	charpentas /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.ta/	charpenta /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.ta/	charpentâmes /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tam/	charpentâtes /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tat/	charpentèrent /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	charpenterai /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tʁe/	charpenteras /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tʁa/	charpentera /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tʁa/	charpenterons /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	charpenterez /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tʁe/	charpenteront /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	charpenterais /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tʁɛ/	charpenterais /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tʁɛ/	charpenterait /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tʁɛ/	charpenterions /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	charpenteriez /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	charpenteraient /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.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	charpente /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t/	charpentes /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t/	charpente /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t/	charpentions /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	charpentiez /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tje/	charpentent /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	charpentasse /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tas/	charpentasses /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tas/	charpentât /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.ta/	charpentassions /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	charpentassiez /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.ta.sje/	charpentassent /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	charpente /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃t/	—	charpentons /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.tɔ̃/	charpentez /ʃaʁ.pɑ̃.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• charpente
• charpentier

Further reading

• “charpenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.