respecter

English

Alternative forms

• respector

Etymology

Etymology tree

English respect

English -er

English respecter

From respect + -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)

Noun

respecter (plural respecters)

1. One who regards or judges with partiality; one who respects.
   • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Search for Mr. Hyde”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 16:

     For these two were old friends, old mates both at school and college, both thorough respecters of themselves and of each other, […]

2. (chiefly in the negative) A person who respects someone or something.

   X is no respecter of Y.

Derived terms

• respecter of persons

References

• “respecter”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin respectāre (infinitive respectāre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛs.pɛk.te/

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Verb

respecter

1. to respect
2. to meet (deadline)
3. to comply with (rules, laws)

Conjugation

Conjugation of respecter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	respecter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	respectant /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		respecté /ʁɛs.pɛk.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	respecte /ʁɛs.pɛkt/	respectes /ʁɛs.pɛkt/	respecte /ʁɛs.pɛkt/	respectons /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɔ̃/	respectez /ʁɛs.pɛk.te/	respectent /ʁɛs.pɛkt/
	imperfect	respectais /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ/	respectais /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ/	respectait /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ/	respections /ʁɛs.pɛk.tjɔ̃/	respectiez /ʁɛs.pɛk.tje/	respectaient /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ/
	past historic2	respectai /ʁɛs.pɛk.te/	respectas /ʁɛs.pɛk.ta/	respecta /ʁɛs.pɛk.ta/	respectâmes /ʁɛs.pɛk.tam/	respectâtes /ʁɛs.pɛk.tat/	respectèrent /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛʁ/
	future	respecterai /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁe/	respecteras /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁa/	respectera /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁa/	respecterons /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/	respecterez /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁe/	respecteront /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	respecterais /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	respecterais /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	respecterait /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	respecterions /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	respecteriez /ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁje/	respecteraient /ʁɛs.pɛk.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	respecte /ʁɛs.pɛkt/	respectes /ʁɛs.pɛkt/	respecte /ʁɛs.pɛkt/	respections /ʁɛs.pɛk.tjɔ̃/	respectiez /ʁɛs.pɛk.tje/	respectent /ʁɛs.pɛkt/
	imperfect2	respectasse /ʁɛs.pɛk.tas/	respectasses /ʁɛs.pɛk.tas/	respectât /ʁɛs.pɛk.ta/	respectassions /ʁɛs.pɛk.ta.sjɔ̃/	respectassiez /ʁɛs.pɛk.ta.sje/	respectassent /ʁɛs.pɛk.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	respecte /ʁɛs.pɛkt/	—	respectons /ʁɛs.pɛk.tɔ̃/	respectez /ʁɛs.pɛk.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

• Haitian Creole: respekte

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

respecter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of respectō