collecter

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English collect

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English collecter

From collect + -er.

Noun

collecter (plural collecters)

1. Alternative form of collector.

Anagrams

• Recollect, recollect

French

Etymology

From collecte +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.lɛk.te/

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Verb

collecter

1. to collect, to gather

Conjugation

Conjugation of collecter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	collecter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	collectant /kɔ.lɛk.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		collecté /kɔ.lɛk.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	collecte /kɔ.lɛkt/	collectes /kɔ.lɛkt/	collecte /kɔ.lɛkt/	collectons /kɔ.lɛk.tɔ̃/	collectez /kɔ.lɛk.te/	collectent /kɔ.lɛkt/
	imperfect	collectais /kɔ.lɛk.tɛ/	collectais /kɔ.lɛk.tɛ/	collectait /kɔ.lɛk.tɛ/	collections /kɔ.lɛk.tjɔ̃/	collectiez /kɔ.lɛk.tje/	collectaient /kɔ.lɛk.tɛ/
	past historic2	collectai /kɔ.lɛk.te/	collectas /kɔ.lɛk.ta/	collecta /kɔ.lɛk.ta/	collectâmes /kɔ.lɛk.tam/	collectâtes /kɔ.lɛk.tat/	collectèrent /kɔ.lɛk.tɛʁ/
	future	collecterai /kɔ.lɛk.tə.ʁe/	collecteras /kɔ.lɛk.tə.ʁa/	collectera /kɔ.lɛk.tə.ʁa/	collecterons /kɔ.lɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/	collecterez /kɔ.lɛk.tə.ʁe/	collecteront /kɔ.lɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	collecterais /kɔ.lɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	collecterais /kɔ.lɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	collecterait /kɔ.lɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	collecterions /kɔ.lɛk.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	collecteriez /kɔ.lɛk.tə.ʁje/	collecteraient /kɔ.lɛk.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	collecte /kɔ.lɛkt/	collectes /kɔ.lɛkt/	collecte /kɔ.lɛkt/	collections /kɔ.lɛk.tjɔ̃/	collectiez /kɔ.lɛk.tje/	collectent /kɔ.lɛkt/
	imperfect2	collectasse /kɔ.lɛk.tas/	collectasses /kɔ.lɛk.tas/	collectât /kɔ.lɛk.ta/	collectassions /kɔ.lɛk.ta.sjɔ̃/	collectassiez /kɔ.lɛk.ta.sje/	collectassent /kɔ.lɛk.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	collecte /kɔ.lɛkt/	—	collectons /kɔ.lɛk.tɔ̃/	collectez /kɔ.lɛk.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

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