sulfater

French

Etymology

sulfate +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syl.fa.te/

Verb

sulfater

1. (transitive, chemistry) to sulfate
2. (transitive) to apply copper sulfate fertilizer

Conjugation

Conjugation of sulfater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sulfater
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sulfatant /syl.fa.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sulfaté /syl.fa.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sulfate /syl.fat/	sulfates /syl.fat/	sulfate /syl.fat/	sulfatons /syl.fa.tɔ̃/	sulfatez /syl.fa.te/	sulfatent /syl.fat/
	imperfect	sulfatais /syl.fa.tɛ/	sulfatais /syl.fa.tɛ/	sulfatait /syl.fa.tɛ/	sulfations /syl.fa.tjɔ̃/	sulfatiez /syl.fa.tje/	sulfataient /syl.fa.tɛ/
	past historic2	sulfatai /syl.fa.te/	sulfatas /syl.fa.ta/	sulfata /syl.fa.ta/	sulfatâmes /syl.fa.tam/	sulfatâtes /syl.fa.tat/	sulfatèrent /syl.fa.tɛʁ/
	future	sulfaterai /syl.fa.tʁe/	sulfateras /syl.fa.tʁa/	sulfatera /syl.fa.tʁa/	sulfaterons /syl.fa.tʁɔ̃/	sulfaterez /syl.fa.tʁe/	sulfateront /syl.fa.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sulfaterais /syl.fa.tʁɛ/	sulfaterais /syl.fa.tʁɛ/	sulfaterait /syl.fa.tʁɛ/	sulfaterions /syl.fa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	sulfateriez /syl.fa.tə.ʁje/	sulfateraient /syl.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	sulfate /syl.fat/	sulfates /syl.fat/	sulfate /syl.fat/	sulfations /syl.fa.tjɔ̃/	sulfatiez /syl.fa.tje/	sulfatent /syl.fat/
	imperfect2	sulfatasse /syl.fa.tas/	sulfatasses /syl.fa.tas/	sulfatât /syl.fa.ta/	sulfatassions /syl.fa.ta.sjɔ̃/	sulfatassiez /syl.fa.ta.sje/	sulfatassent /syl.fa.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sulfate /syl.fat/	—	sulfatons /syl.fa.tɔ̃/	sulfatez /syl.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).

Further reading

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

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Alternative forms

• sulfat

Noun

sulfater n

1. indefinite plural of sulfat