cafter

French

Etymology

From cafard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaf.te/

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Verb

cafter

1. (informal) to rat; to rat on
2. (informal) to denounce

   Synonym: dénoncer

Conjugation

Conjugation of cafter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cafter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	caftant /kaf.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cafté /kaf.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cafte /kaft/	caftes /kaft/	cafte /kaft/	caftons /kaf.tɔ̃/	caftez /kaf.te/	caftent /kaft/
	imperfect	caftais /kaf.tɛ/	caftais /kaf.tɛ/	caftait /kaf.tɛ/	caftions /kaf.tjɔ̃/	caftiez /kaf.tje/	caftaient /kaf.tɛ/
	past historic2	caftai /kaf.te/	caftas /kaf.ta/	cafta /kaf.ta/	caftâmes /kaf.tam/	caftâtes /kaf.tat/	caftèrent /kaf.tɛʁ/
	future	cafterai /kaf.tə.ʁe/	cafteras /kaf.tə.ʁa/	caftera /kaf.tə.ʁa/	cafterons /kaf.tə.ʁɔ̃/	cafterez /kaf.tə.ʁe/	cafteront /kaf.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cafterais /kaf.tə.ʁɛ/	cafterais /kaf.tə.ʁɛ/	cafterait /kaf.tə.ʁɛ/	cafterions /kaf.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	cafteriez /kaf.tə.ʁje/	cafteraient /kaf.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	cafte /kaft/	caftes /kaft/	cafte /kaft/	caftions /kaf.tjɔ̃/	caftiez /kaf.tje/	caftent /kaft/
	imperfect2	caftasse /kaf.tas/	caftasses /kaf.tas/	caftât /kaf.ta/	caftassions /kaf.ta.sjɔ̃/	caftassiez /kaf.ta.sje/	caftassent /kaf.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cafte /kaft/	—	caftons /kaf.tɔ̃/	caftez /kaf.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).

Derived terms

• cafteur