diffracter
French
Etymology
From Latin diffractus (“shattered”) + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.fʁak.te/
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Verb
diffracter
- (transitive) to diffract
Conjugation
Conjugation of diffracter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | diffracter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | diffractant /di.fʁak.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | diffracté /di.fʁak.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | diffracte /di.fʁakt/ |
diffractes /di.fʁakt/ |
diffracte /di.fʁakt/ |
diffractons /di.fʁak.tɔ̃/ |
diffractez /di.fʁak.te/ |
diffractent /di.fʁakt/ |
| imperfect | diffractais /di.fʁak.tɛ/ |
diffractais /di.fʁak.tɛ/ |
diffractait /di.fʁak.tɛ/ |
diffractions /di.fʁak.tjɔ̃/ |
diffractiez /di.fʁak.tje/ |
diffractaient /di.fʁak.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | diffractai /di.fʁak.te/ |
diffractas /di.fʁak.ta/ |
diffracta /di.fʁak.ta/ |
diffractâmes /di.fʁak.tam/ |
diffractâtes /di.fʁak.tat/ |
diffractèrent /di.fʁak.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | diffracterai /di.fʁak.tə.ʁe/ |
diffracteras /di.fʁak.tə.ʁa/ |
diffractera /di.fʁak.tə.ʁa/ |
diffracterons /di.fʁak.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
diffracterez /di.fʁak.tə.ʁe/ |
diffracteront /di.fʁak.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | diffracterais /di.fʁak.tə.ʁɛ/ |
diffracterais /di.fʁak.tə.ʁɛ/ |
diffracterait /di.fʁak.tə.ʁɛ/ |
diffracterions /di.fʁak.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
diffracteriez /di.fʁak.tə.ʁje/ |
diffracteraient /di.fʁak.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 | diffracte /di.fʁakt/ |
diffractes /di.fʁakt/ |
diffracte /di.fʁakt/ |
diffractions /di.fʁak.tjɔ̃/ |
diffractiez /di.fʁak.tje/ |
diffractent /di.fʁakt/ |
| imperfect2 | diffractasse /di.fʁak.tas/ |
diffractasses /di.fʁak.tas/ |
diffractât /di.fʁak.ta/ |
diffractassions /di.fʁak.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
diffractassiez /di.fʁak.ta.sje/ |
diffractassent /di.fʁak.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | diffracte /di.fʁakt/ |
— | diffractons /di.fʁak.tɔ̃/ |
diffractez /di.fʁak.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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “diffracter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.