afforester

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.te/
• Rhymes: -e

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Verb

afforester

1. to afforest (grant the right to hunt in a forest)

Conjugation

Conjugation of afforester (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	afforester
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	afforestant /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		afforesté /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	afforeste /a.fɔ.ʁɛst/	afforestes /a.fɔ.ʁɛst/	afforeste /a.fɔ.ʁɛst/	afforestons /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tɔ̃/	afforestez /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.te/	afforestent /a.fɔ.ʁɛst/
	imperfect	afforestais /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tɛ/	afforestais /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tɛ/	afforestait /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tɛ/	afforestions /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tjɔ̃/	afforestiez /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tje/	afforestaient /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tɛ/
	past historic2	afforestai /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.te/	afforestas /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.ta/	afforesta /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.ta/	afforestâmes /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tam/	afforestâtes /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tat/	afforestèrent /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tɛʁ/
	future	afforesterai /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tə.ʁe/	afforesteras /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tə.ʁa/	afforestera /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tə.ʁa/	afforesterons /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/	afforesterez /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tə.ʁe/	afforesteront /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	afforesterais /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	afforesterais /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	afforesterait /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tə.ʁɛ/	afforesterions /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	afforesteriez /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tə.ʁje/	afforesteraient /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.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	afforeste /a.fɔ.ʁɛst/	afforestes /a.fɔ.ʁɛst/	afforeste /a.fɔ.ʁɛst/	afforestions /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tjɔ̃/	afforestiez /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tje/	afforestent /a.fɔ.ʁɛst/
	imperfect2	afforestasse /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tas/	afforestasses /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tas/	afforestât /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.ta/	afforestassions /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.ta.sjɔ̃/	afforestassiez /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.ta.sje/	afforestassent /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	afforeste /a.fɔ.ʁɛst/	—	afforestons /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.tɔ̃/	afforestez /a.fɔ.ʁɛs.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).

Further reading

• “afforester”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.