sculpter
English
Noun
sculpter
- Misspelling of sculptor.
French
Etymology
A contamination between the obsolete verb sculper (a borrowing from Latin sculpō), which it displaced, and sculpteur.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skyl.te/
Audio: (file) - Homophones: sculptai, sculpté, sculptée, sculptées, sculptés, sculptez
Verb
sculpter
- to sculpt
Conjugation
Conjugation of sculpter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | sculpter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | sculptant /skyl.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | sculpté /skyl.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | sculpte /skylt/ |
sculptes /skylt/ |
sculpte /skylt/ |
sculptons /skyl.tɔ̃/ |
sculptez /skyl.te/ |
sculptent /skylt/ |
| imperfect | sculptais /skyl.tɛ/ |
sculptais /skyl.tɛ/ |
sculptait /skyl.tɛ/ |
sculptions /skyl.tjɔ̃/ |
sculptiez /skyl.tje/ |
sculptaient /skyl.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | sculptai /skyl.te/ |
sculptas /skyl.ta/ |
sculpta /skyl.ta/ |
sculptâmes /skyl.tam/ |
sculptâtes /skyl.tat/ |
sculptèrent /skyl.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | sculpterai /skyl.tə.ʁe/ |
sculpteras /skyl.tə.ʁa/ |
sculptera /skyl.tə.ʁa/ |
sculpterons /skyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
sculpterez /skyl.tə.ʁe/ |
sculpteront /skyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | sculpterais /skyl.tə.ʁɛ/ |
sculpterais /skyl.tə.ʁɛ/ |
sculpterait /skyl.tə.ʁɛ/ |
sculpterions /skyl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
sculpteriez /skyl.tə.ʁje/ |
sculpteraient /skyl.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 | sculpte /skylt/ |
sculptes /skylt/ |
sculpte /skylt/ |
sculptions /skyl.tjɔ̃/ |
sculptiez /skyl.tje/ |
sculptent /skylt/ |
| imperfect2 | sculptasse /skyl.tas/ |
sculptasses /skyl.tas/ |
sculptât /skyl.ta/ |
sculptassions /skyl.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
sculptassiez /skyl.ta.sje/ |
sculptassent /skyl.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | sculpte /skylt/ |
— | sculptons /skyl.tɔ̃/ |
sculptez /skyl.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
- “sculpter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.