capter
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
capter
- to capture, to catch, to pick up
- to detect, to sense, to receive
- (informal) to understand
- Synonyms: piger, entraver, comprendre
- On dirait qu'il a rien capté de c'que j'lui ai raconté.
- He looks like [or it's as if] he hasn't understood anything I've told him.
- (informal) to meet or see someone
Conjugation
Conjugation of capter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | capter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | captant /kap.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | capté /kap.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | capte /kapt/ |
captes /kapt/ |
capte /kapt/ |
captons /kap.tɔ̃/ |
captez /kap.te/ |
captent /kapt/ |
| imperfect | captais /kap.tɛ/ |
captais /kap.tɛ/ |
captait /kap.tɛ/ |
captions /kap.tjɔ̃/ |
captiez /kap.tje/ |
captaient /kap.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | captai /kap.te/ |
captas /kap.ta/ |
capta /kap.ta/ |
captâmes /kap.tam/ |
captâtes /kap.tat/ |
captèrent /kap.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | capterai /kap.tə.ʁe/ |
capteras /kap.tə.ʁa/ |
captera /kap.tə.ʁa/ |
capterons /kap.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
capterez /kap.tə.ʁe/ |
capteront /kap.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | capterais /kap.tə.ʁɛ/ |
capterais /kap.tə.ʁɛ/ |
capterait /kap.tə.ʁɛ/ |
capterions /kap.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
capteriez /kap.tə.ʁje/ |
capteraient /kap.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 | capte /kapt/ |
captes /kapt/ |
capte /kapt/ |
captions /kap.tjɔ̃/ |
captiez /kap.tje/ |
captent /kapt/ |
| imperfect2 | captasse /kap.tas/ |
captasses /kap.tas/ |
captât /kap.ta/ |
captassions /kap.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
captassiez /kap.ta.sje/ |
captassent /kap.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | capte /kapt/ |
— | captons /kap.tɔ̃/ |
captez /kap.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
- captable
- captage
- captateur, captatrice
- captation
- captativité
- captatoire
- capteur
- recapter
Further reading
- “capter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- crapet, crêpât, perçât, pétrac
Latin
Verb
capter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of captō