affecter

English

Etymology

From affect +‎ -er.

Noun

affecter (plural affecters)

1. A person who affects to know something or to be something.

Related terms

• affectation
• affective
• affection
• affectionate

Translations

person who affects to know or be something

• Polish: afektant m (obsolete)
• Portuguese: afetador m

Anagrams

• fact free, reaffect, fact-free

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin affectāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.fɛk.te/

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Verb

affecter

1. (transitive) to feign, affect (an emotion, etc.)
2. to allocate (something),
3. (transitive) to assign someone, to post someone [with à ‘to’]
4. (transitive) to affect, influence

   La mort de sa mère l'a fort affecté. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Conjugation

Conjugation of affecter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	affecter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	affectant /a.fɛk.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		affecté /a.fɛk.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	affecte /a.fɛkt/	affectes /a.fɛkt/	affecte /a.fɛkt/	affectons /a.fɛk.tɔ̃/	affectez /a.fɛk.te/	affectent /a.fɛkt/
	imperfect	affectais /a.fɛk.tɛ/	affectais /a.fɛk.tɛ/	affectait /a.fɛk.tɛ/	affections /a.fɛk.tjɔ̃/	affectiez /a.fɛk.tje/	affectaient /a.fɛk.tɛ/
	past historic2	affectai /a.fɛk.te/	affectas /a.fɛk.ta/	affecta /a.fɛk.ta/	affectâmes /a.fɛk.tam/	affectâtes /a.fɛk.tat/	affectèrent /a.fɛk.tɛʁ/
	future	affecterai /a.fɛk.tə.ʁe/	affecteras /a.fɛk.tə.ʁa/	affectera /a.fɛk.tə.ʁa/	affecterons /a.fɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/	affecterez /a.fɛk.tə.ʁe/	affecteront /a.fɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	affecterais /a.fɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	affecterais /a.fɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	affecterait /a.fɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	affecterions /a.fɛk.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	affecteriez /a.fɛk.tə.ʁje/	affecteraient /a.fɛk.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	affecte /a.fɛkt/	affectes /a.fɛkt/	affecte /a.fɛkt/	affections /a.fɛk.tjɔ̃/	affectiez /a.fɛk.tje/	affectent /a.fɛkt/
	imperfect2	affectasse /a.fɛk.tas/	affectasses /a.fɛk.tas/	affectât /a.fɛk.ta/	affectassions /a.fɛk.ta.sjɔ̃/	affectassiez /a.fɛk.ta.sje/	affectassent /a.fɛk.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	affecte /a.fɛkt/	—	affectons /a.fɛk.tɔ̃/	affectez /a.fɛk.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

• désaffecté

Related terms

• affection

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

affecter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of affectō