apparenter

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ parent +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.te/

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Verb

apparenter

1. (transitive) to be related to
2. (reflexive, ~ à) to resemble, be similar to

Conjugation

Conjugation of apparenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	apparenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	apparentant /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		apparenté /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	apparente /a.pa.ʁɑ̃t/	apparentes /a.pa.ʁɑ̃t/	apparente /a.pa.ʁɑ̃t/	apparentons /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tɔ̃/	apparentez /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.te/	apparentent /a.pa.ʁɑ̃t/
	imperfect	apparentais /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛ/	apparentais /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛ/	apparentait /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛ/	apparentions /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	apparentiez /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tje/	apparentaient /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	apparentai /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.te/	apparentas /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.ta/	apparenta /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.ta/	apparentâmes /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tam/	apparentâtes /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tat/	apparentèrent /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	apparenterai /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tʁe/	apparenteras /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tʁa/	apparentera /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tʁa/	apparenterons /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	apparenterez /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tʁe/	apparenteront /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	apparenterais /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/	apparenterais /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/	apparenterait /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tʁɛ/	apparenterions /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	apparenteriez /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	apparenteraient /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.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	apparente /a.pa.ʁɑ̃t/	apparentes /a.pa.ʁɑ̃t/	apparente /a.pa.ʁɑ̃t/	apparentions /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	apparentiez /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tje/	apparentent /a.pa.ʁɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	apparentasse /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tas/	apparentasses /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tas/	apparentât /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.ta/	apparentassions /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	apparentassiez /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.ta.sje/	apparentassent /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	apparente /a.pa.ʁɑ̃t/	—	apparentons /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tɔ̃/	apparentez /a.pa.ʁɑ̃.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

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