compartimenter

French

Etymology

From compartiment +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

compartimenter

1. to put into compartments, compartmentalize, to section off

Conjugation

Conjugation of compartimenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	compartimenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	compartimentant /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		compartimenté /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	compartimente /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃t/	compartimentes /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃t/	compartimente /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃t/	compartimentons /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	compartimentez /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.te/	compartimentent /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect	compartimentais /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tɛ/	compartimentais /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tɛ/	compartimentait /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tɛ/	compartimentions /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	compartimentiez /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tje/	compartimentaient /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	compartimentai /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.te/	compartimentas /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.ta/	compartimenta /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.ta/	compartimentâmes /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tam/	compartimentâtes /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tat/	compartimentèrent /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	compartimenterai /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tʁe/	compartimenteras /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tʁa/	compartimentera /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tʁa/	compartimenterons /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	compartimenterez /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tʁe/	compartimenteront /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	compartimenterais /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	compartimenterais /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	compartimenterait /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	compartimenterions /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	compartimenteriez /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	compartimenteraient /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.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	compartimente /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃t/	compartimentes /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃t/	compartimente /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃t/	compartimentions /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	compartimentiez /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tje/	compartimentent /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	compartimentasse /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tas/	compartimentasses /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tas/	compartimentât /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.ta/	compartimentassions /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	compartimentassiez /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.ta.sje/	compartimentassent /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	compartimente /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃t/	—	compartimentons /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	compartimentez /kɔ̃.paʁ.ti.mɑ̃.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).

Derived terms

• compartimentation

Further reading

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