ponter
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French pounter. By surface analysis, pont + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔ̃.te/
Audio (file)
Verb
ponter
- to build a bridge
- (nautical) to cover a boat with a deck
- 1888, P. A. Hennique, Les caboteurs et pêcheurs de la côte de Tunisie: pêche des éponges, page 57:
- […] c’est le plus petit bateau qu’on ose exposer à la mer du large; il est ponté, d’une construction solide […]
- […] it is the smallest boat one dares expose to the open sea; it is covered with a deck, solidly built […]
Conjugation
Conjugation of ponter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ponter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pontant /pɔ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ponté /pɔ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | ponte /pɔ̃t/ |
pontes /pɔ̃t/ |
ponte /pɔ̃t/ |
pontons /pɔ̃.tɔ̃/ |
pontez /pɔ̃.te/ |
pontent /pɔ̃t/ |
| imperfect | pontais /pɔ̃.tɛ/ |
pontais /pɔ̃.tɛ/ |
pontait /pɔ̃.tɛ/ |
pontions /pɔ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
pontiez /pɔ̃.tje/ |
pontaient /pɔ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pontai /pɔ̃.te/ |
pontas /pɔ̃.ta/ |
ponta /pɔ̃.ta/ |
pontâmes /pɔ̃.tam/ |
pontâtes /pɔ̃.tat/ |
pontèrent /pɔ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | ponterai /pɔ̃.tʁe/ |
ponteras /pɔ̃.tʁa/ |
pontera /pɔ̃.tʁa/ |
ponterons /pɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
ponterez /pɔ̃.tʁe/ |
ponteront /pɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ponterais /pɔ̃.tʁɛ/ |
ponterais /pɔ̃.tʁɛ/ |
ponterait /pɔ̃.tʁɛ/ |
ponterions /pɔ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ponteriez /pɔ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
ponteraient /pɔ̃.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 | ponte /pɔ̃t/ |
pontes /pɔ̃t/ |
ponte /pɔ̃t/ |
pontions /pɔ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
pontiez /pɔ̃.tje/ |
pontent /pɔ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | pontasse /pɔ̃.tas/ |
pontasses /pɔ̃.tas/ |
pontât /pɔ̃.ta/ |
pontassions /pɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
pontassiez /pɔ̃.ta.sje/ |
pontassent /pɔ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ponte /pɔ̃t/ |
— | pontons /pɔ̃.tɔ̃/ |
pontez /pɔ̃.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “ponter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.