calfater

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kal.fa.te/

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Verb

calfater

1. to caulk (to seal joints with caulk)

Conjugation

Conjugation of calfater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	calfater
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	calfatant /kal.fa.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		calfaté /kal.fa.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	calfate /kal.fat/	calfates /kal.fat/	calfate /kal.fat/	calfatons /kal.fa.tɔ̃/	calfatez /kal.fa.te/	calfatent /kal.fat/
	imperfect	calfatais /kal.fa.tɛ/	calfatais /kal.fa.tɛ/	calfatait /kal.fa.tɛ/	calfations /kal.fa.tjɔ̃/	calfatiez /kal.fa.tje/	calfataient /kal.fa.tɛ/
	past historic2	calfatai /kal.fa.te/	calfatas /kal.fa.ta/	calfata /kal.fa.ta/	calfatâmes /kal.fa.tam/	calfatâtes /kal.fa.tat/	calfatèrent /kal.fa.tɛʁ/
	future	calfaterai /kal.fa.tʁe/	calfateras /kal.fa.tʁa/	calfatera /kal.fa.tʁa/	calfaterons /kal.fa.tʁɔ̃/	calfaterez /kal.fa.tʁe/	calfateront /kal.fa.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	calfaterais /kal.fa.tʁɛ/	calfaterais /kal.fa.tʁɛ/	calfaterait /kal.fa.tʁɛ/	calfaterions /kal.fa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	calfateriez /kal.fa.tə.ʁje/	calfateraient /kal.fa.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	calfate /kal.fat/	calfates /kal.fat/	calfate /kal.fat/	calfations /kal.fa.tjɔ̃/	calfatiez /kal.fa.tje/	calfatent /kal.fat/
	imperfect2	calfatasse /kal.fa.tas/	calfatasses /kal.fa.tas/	calfatât /kal.fa.ta/	calfatassions /kal.fa.ta.sjɔ̃/	calfatassiez /kal.fa.ta.sje/	calfatassent /kal.fa.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	calfate /kal.fat/	—	calfatons /kal.fa.tɔ̃/	calfatez /kal.fa.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).

Descendants

• → Early Scots: calfat
  • Scots: colf, culf, calf

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• fractale