supplanter

English

Etymology

supplant +‎ -er.

Noun

supplanter (plural supplanters)

1. Someone or something that supplants.
   • 1906, James H. McConkey, “Jacob's Struggle”, in China's Millions, page 13:

     Selfishness is indeed the supplanter of God in the soul.

Anagrams

• superplant

---

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin supplantō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.plɑ̃.te/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

supplanter

1. (transitive) to supplant

Conjugation

Conjugation of supplanter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	supplanter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	supplantant /sy.plɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		supplanté /sy.plɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	supplante /sy.plɑ̃t/	supplantes /sy.plɑ̃t/	supplante /sy.plɑ̃t/	supplantons /sy.plɑ̃.tɔ̃/	supplantez /sy.plɑ̃.te/	supplantent /sy.plɑ̃t/
	imperfect	supplantais /sy.plɑ̃.tɛ/	supplantais /sy.plɑ̃.tɛ/	supplantait /sy.plɑ̃.tɛ/	supplantions /sy.plɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	supplantiez /sy.plɑ̃.tje/	supplantaient /sy.plɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	supplantai /sy.plɑ̃.te/	supplantas /sy.plɑ̃.ta/	supplanta /sy.plɑ̃.ta/	supplantâmes /sy.plɑ̃.tam/	supplantâtes /sy.plɑ̃.tat/	supplantèrent /sy.plɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	supplanterai /sy.plɑ̃.tʁe/	supplanteras /sy.plɑ̃.tʁa/	supplantera /sy.plɑ̃.tʁa/	supplanterons /sy.plɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	supplanterez /sy.plɑ̃.tʁe/	supplanteront /sy.plɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	supplanterais /sy.plɑ̃.tʁɛ/	supplanterais /sy.plɑ̃.tʁɛ/	supplanterait /sy.plɑ̃.tʁɛ/	supplanterions /sy.plɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	supplanteriez /sy.plɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	supplanteraient /sy.plɑ̃.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	supplante /sy.plɑ̃t/	supplantes /sy.plɑ̃t/	supplante /sy.plɑ̃t/	supplantions /sy.plɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	supplantiez /sy.plɑ̃.tje/	supplantent /sy.plɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	supplantasse /sy.plɑ̃.tas/	supplantasses /sy.plɑ̃.tas/	supplantât /sy.plɑ̃.ta/	supplantassions /sy.plɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	supplantassiez /sy.plɑ̃.ta.sje/	supplantassent /sy.plɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	supplante /sy.plɑ̃t/	—	supplantons /sy.plɑ̃.tɔ̃/	supplantez /sy.plɑ̃.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

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

---

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) supplanter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of supplantō

---

Old French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin supplantō.

Verb

supplanter

1. (transitive) to supplant

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of supplanter (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		supplanter			avoir supplanté
gerund		en supplantant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		supplantant
past participle		supplanté
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	supplant	supplantes	supplante	supplantons	supplantez	supplantent
	imperfect	supplantoie, supplanteie, supplantoe, supplanteve	supplantoies, supplanteies, supplantoes, supplanteves	supplantoit, supplanteit, supplantot, supplanteve	supplantiiens, supplantiens	supplantiiez, supplantiez	supplantoient, supplanteient, supplantoent, supplantevent
	preterite	supplantai	supplantas	supplanta	supplantames	supplantastes	supplanterent
	future	supplanterai	supplanteras	supplantera	supplanterons	supplanteroiz, supplantereiz, supplanterez	supplanteront
	conditional	supplanteroie, supplantereie	supplanteroies, supplantereies	supplanteroit, supplantereit	supplanteriiens, supplanteriens	supplanteriiez, supplanteriez	supplanteroient, supplantereient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	supplant	supplanz	supplant	supplantons	supplantez	supplantent
	imperfect	supplantasse	supplantasses	supplantast	supplantissons, supplantissiens	supplantissoiz, supplantissez, supplantissiez	supplantassent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	supplante	—	supplantons	supplantez	—

Descendants

• → English: supplant
• French: supplanter