conjecturer

English

Etymology

conjecture +‎ -er

Noun

conjecturer (plural conjecturers)

1. a person who conjectures

French

Etymology

Either from conjecture +‎ -er or from Late Latin coniectūrō, coniectūrāre, from Latin coniectūrus, future active participle of cōniciō (“to throw or bring together, unite, connect”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁe/

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Verb

conjecturer

1. (transitive) to conjecture, surmise, speculate, wonder

Conjugation

Conjugation of conjecturer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	conjecturer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	conjecturant /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		conjecturé /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	conjecture /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.tyʁ/	conjectures /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.tyʁ/	conjecture /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.tyʁ/	conjecturons /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁɔ̃/	conjecturez /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁe/	conjecturent /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.tyʁ/
	imperfect	conjecturais /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁɛ/	conjecturais /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁɛ/	conjecturait /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁɛ/	conjecturions /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	conjecturiez /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁje/	conjecturaient /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	conjecturai /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁe/	conjecturas /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁa/	conjectura /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁa/	conjecturâmes /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁam/	conjecturâtes /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁat/	conjecturèrent /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁɛʁ/
	future	conjecturerai /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	conjectureras /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	conjecturera /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	conjecturerons /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	conjecturerez /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	conjectureront /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	conjecturerais /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	conjecturerais /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	conjecturerait /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	conjecturerions /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	conjectureriez /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁə.ʁje/	conjectureraient /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁə.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	conjecture /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.tyʁ/	conjectures /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.tyʁ/	conjecture /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.tyʁ/	conjecturions /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	conjecturiez /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁje/	conjecturent /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.tyʁ/
	imperfect2	conjecturasse /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁas/	conjecturasses /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁas/	conjecturât /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁa/	conjecturassions /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	conjecturassiez /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁa.sje/	conjecturassent /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	conjecture /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.tyʁ/	—	conjecturons /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁɔ̃/	conjecturez /kɔ̃.ʒɛk.ty.ʁe/	—
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).

Further reading

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