éjecter

See also: ejecter

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ēiectō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.ʒɛk.te/

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Verb

éjecter

1. (transitive) to eject

   Les avions de chasse sont conçus de manière à éjecter le pilote avant la chute de l’appareil.

   Fighter planes are designed to eject the pilot before they crash.

Conjugation

Conjugation of éjecter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	éjecter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	éjectant /e.ʒɛk.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		éjecté /e.ʒɛk.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	éjecte /e.ʒɛkt/	éjectes /e.ʒɛkt/	éjecte /e.ʒɛkt/	éjectons /e.ʒɛk.tɔ̃/	éjectez /e.ʒɛk.te/	éjectent /e.ʒɛkt/
	imperfect	éjectais /e.ʒɛk.tɛ/	éjectais /e.ʒɛk.tɛ/	éjectait /e.ʒɛk.tɛ/	éjections /e.ʒɛk.tjɔ̃/	éjectiez /e.ʒɛk.tje/	éjectaient /e.ʒɛk.tɛ/
	past historic2	éjectai /e.ʒɛk.te/	éjectas /e.ʒɛk.ta/	éjecta /e.ʒɛk.ta/	éjectâmes /e.ʒɛk.tam/	éjectâtes /e.ʒɛk.tat/	éjectèrent /e.ʒɛk.tɛʁ/
	future	éjecterai /e.ʒɛk.tə.ʁe/	éjecteras /e.ʒɛk.tə.ʁa/	éjectera /e.ʒɛk.tə.ʁa/	éjecterons /e.ʒɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/	éjecterez /e.ʒɛk.tə.ʁe/	éjecteront /e.ʒɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	éjecterais /e.ʒɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	éjecterais /e.ʒɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	éjecterait /e.ʒɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	éjecterions /e.ʒɛk.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	éjecteriez /e.ʒɛk.tə.ʁje/	éjecteraient /e.ʒɛk.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	éjecte /e.ʒɛkt/	éjectes /e.ʒɛkt/	éjecte /e.ʒɛkt/	éjections /e.ʒɛk.tjɔ̃/	éjectiez /e.ʒɛk.tje/	éjectent /e.ʒɛkt/
	imperfect2	éjectasse /e.ʒɛk.tas/	éjectasses /e.ʒɛk.tas/	éjectât /e.ʒɛk.ta/	éjectassions /e.ʒɛk.ta.sjɔ̃/	éjectassiez /e.ʒɛk.ta.sje/	éjectassent /e.ʒɛk.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	éjecte /e.ʒɛkt/	—	éjectons /e.ʒɛk.tɔ̃/	éjectez /e.ʒɛk.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).

Related terms

• éjection
• injecter

Further reading

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