cacheter
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
cacheter
- (transitive) to seal (put a seal on a letter, a package, a wine bottle, etc.)
Conjugation[edit]
This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il cachète and the third-person singular future indicative il cachètera.
Conjugation of cacheter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cacheter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cachetant /kaʃ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cacheté /kaʃ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cachète /ka.ʃɛt/ |
cachètes /ka.ʃɛt/ |
cachète /ka.ʃɛt/ |
cachetons /kaʃ.tɔ̃/ |
cachetez /kaʃ.te/ |
cachètent /ka.ʃɛt/ |
| imperfect | cachetais /kaʃ.tɛ/ |
cachetais /kaʃ.tɛ/ |
cachetait /kaʃ.tɛ/ |
cachetions /ka.ʃə.tjɔ̃/ |
cachetiez /ka.ʃə.tje/ |
cachetaient /kaʃ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cachetai /kaʃ.te/ |
cachetas /kaʃ.ta/ |
cacheta /kaʃ.ta/ |
cachetâmes /kaʃ.tam/ |
cachetâtes /kaʃ.tat/ |
cachetèrent /kaʃ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | cachèterai /ka.ʃɛ.tʁe/ or /ka.ʃe.tʁe/ |
cachèteras /ka.ʃɛ.tʁa/ or /ka.ʃe.tʁa/ |
cachètera /ka.ʃɛ.tʁa/ or /ka.ʃe.tʁa/ |
cachèterons /ka.ʃɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ka.ʃe.tʁɔ̃/ |
cachèterez /ka.ʃɛ.tʁe/ or /ka.ʃe.tʁe/ |
cachèteront /ka.ʃɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ka.ʃe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cachèterais /ka.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.ʃe.tʁɛ/ |
cachèterais /ka.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.ʃe.tʁɛ/ |
cachèterait /ka.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.ʃe.tʁɛ/ |
cachèterions /ka.ʃɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ka.ʃe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cachèteriez /ka.ʃɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ka.ʃe.tə.ʁje/ |
cachèteraient /ka.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.ʃe.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 | cachète /ka.ʃɛt/ |
cachètes /ka.ʃɛt/ |
cachète /ka.ʃɛt/ |
cachetions /ka.ʃə.tjɔ̃/ |
cachetiez /ka.ʃə.tje/ |
cachètent /ka.ʃɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | cachetasse /kaʃ.tas/ |
cachetasses /kaʃ.tas/ |
cachetât /kaʃ.ta/ |
cachetassions /kaʃ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
cachetassiez /kaʃ.ta.sje/ |
cachetassent /kaʃ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cachète /ka.ʃɛt/ |
— | cachetons /kaʃ.tɔ̃/ |
cachetez /kaʃ.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). | |||||||
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “cacheter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.