apponter

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ ponter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pɔ̃.te/

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Verb

apponter

1. (intransitive) to land (on an aircraft carrier)

Conjugation

Conjugation of apponter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	apponter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	appontant /a.pɔ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		apponté /a.pɔ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	apponte /a.pɔ̃t/	appontes /a.pɔ̃t/	apponte /a.pɔ̃t/	appontons /a.pɔ̃.tɔ̃/	appontez /a.pɔ̃.te/	appontent /a.pɔ̃t/
	imperfect	appontais /a.pɔ̃.tɛ/	appontais /a.pɔ̃.tɛ/	appontait /a.pɔ̃.tɛ/	appontions /a.pɔ̃.tjɔ̃/	appontiez /a.pɔ̃.tje/	appontaient /a.pɔ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	appontai /a.pɔ̃.te/	appontas /a.pɔ̃.ta/	apponta /a.pɔ̃.ta/	appontâmes /a.pɔ̃.tam/	appontâtes /a.pɔ̃.tat/	appontèrent /a.pɔ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	apponterai /a.pɔ̃.tʁe/	apponteras /a.pɔ̃.tʁa/	appontera /a.pɔ̃.tʁa/	apponterons /a.pɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/	apponterez /a.pɔ̃.tʁe/	apponteront /a.pɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	apponterais /a.pɔ̃.tʁɛ/	apponterais /a.pɔ̃.tʁɛ/	apponterait /a.pɔ̃.tʁɛ/	apponterions /a.pɔ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	apponteriez /a.pɔ̃.tə.ʁje/	apponteraient /a.pɔ̃.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	apponte /a.pɔ̃t/	appontes /a.pɔ̃t/	apponte /a.pɔ̃t/	appontions /a.pɔ̃.tjɔ̃/	appontiez /a.pɔ̃.tje/	appontent /a.pɔ̃t/
	imperfect2	appontasse /a.pɔ̃.tas/	appontasses /a.pɔ̃.tas/	appontât /a.pɔ̃.ta/	appontassions /a.pɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	appontassiez /a.pɔ̃.ta.sje/	appontassent /a.pɔ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	apponte /a.pɔ̃t/	—	appontons /a.pɔ̃.tɔ̃/	appontez /a.pɔ̃.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

• appontage
• appontement

Further reading

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