jacter

French

Etymology

From jacqueter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒak.te/

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Verb

jacter

1. (colloquial, possibly derogatory) to talk, speak
2. (colloquial, possibly derogatory) to speak (a language)
3. (colloquial, possibly derogatory) to chat
4. (colloquial, possibly derogatory, Lyon slang) to gossip

Conjugation

Conjugation of jacter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	jacter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	jactant /ʒak.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		jacté /ʒak.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	jacte /ʒakt/	jactes /ʒakt/	jacte /ʒakt/	jactons /ʒak.tɔ̃/	jactez /ʒak.te/	jactent /ʒakt/
	imperfect	jactais /ʒak.tɛ/	jactais /ʒak.tɛ/	jactait /ʒak.tɛ/	jactions /ʒak.tjɔ̃/	jactiez /ʒak.tje/	jactaient /ʒak.tɛ/
	past historic2	jactai /ʒak.te/	jactas /ʒak.ta/	jacta /ʒak.ta/	jactâmes /ʒak.tam/	jactâtes /ʒak.tat/	jactèrent /ʒak.tɛʁ/
	future	jacterai /ʒak.tə.ʁe/	jacteras /ʒak.tə.ʁa/	jactera /ʒak.tə.ʁa/	jacterons /ʒak.tə.ʁɔ̃/	jacterez /ʒak.tə.ʁe/	jacteront /ʒak.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	jacterais /ʒak.tə.ʁɛ/	jacterais /ʒak.tə.ʁɛ/	jacterait /ʒak.tə.ʁɛ/	jacterions /ʒak.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	jacteriez /ʒak.tə.ʁje/	jacteraient /ʒak.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	jacte /ʒakt/	jactes /ʒakt/	jacte /ʒakt/	jactions /ʒak.tjɔ̃/	jactiez /ʒak.tje/	jactent /ʒakt/
	imperfect2	jactasse /ʒak.tas/	jactasses /ʒak.tas/	jactât /ʒak.ta/	jactassions /ʒak.ta.sjɔ̃/	jactassiez /ʒak.ta.sje/	jactassent /ʒak.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	jacte /ʒakt/	—	jactons /ʒak.tɔ̃/	jactez /ʒak.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

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯ak.ter/, [ˈi̯äkt̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈjak.ter/, [ˈjäkt̪er]

Verb

jacter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of jactō