inspecter

English

Etymology

inspect +‎ -er

Noun

inspecter (plural inspecters)

1. Archaic form of inspector.

Synonyms

• inspector

Anagrams

• 'prentices, in respect, prentices, prescient, reinspect

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃s.pɛk.te/

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Verb

inspecter

1. to inspect

Conjugation

Conjugation of inspecter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	inspecter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	inspectant /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		inspecté /ɛ̃s.pɛk.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	inspecte /ɛ̃s.pɛkt/	inspectes /ɛ̃s.pɛkt/	inspecte /ɛ̃s.pɛkt/	inspectons /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tɔ̃/	inspectez /ɛ̃s.pɛk.te/	inspectent /ɛ̃s.pɛkt/
	imperfect	inspectais /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tɛ/	inspectais /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tɛ/	inspectait /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tɛ/	inspections /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tjɔ̃/	inspectiez /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tje/	inspectaient /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tɛ/
	past historic2	inspectai /ɛ̃s.pɛk.te/	inspectas /ɛ̃s.pɛk.ta/	inspecta /ɛ̃s.pɛk.ta/	inspectâmes /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tam/	inspectâtes /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tat/	inspectèrent /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tɛʁ/
	future	inspecterai /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tə.ʁe/	inspecteras /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tə.ʁa/	inspectera /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tə.ʁa/	inspecterons /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/	inspecterez /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tə.ʁe/	inspecteront /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	inspecterais /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	inspecterais /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	inspecterait /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	inspecterions /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	inspecteriez /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tə.ʁje/	inspecteraient /ɛ̃s.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	inspecte /ɛ̃s.pɛkt/	inspectes /ɛ̃s.pɛkt/	inspecte /ɛ̃s.pɛkt/	inspections /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tjɔ̃/	inspectiez /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tje/	inspectent /ɛ̃s.pɛkt/
	imperfect2	inspectasse /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tas/	inspectasses /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tas/	inspectât /ɛ̃s.pɛk.ta/	inspectassions /ɛ̃s.pɛk.ta.sjɔ̃/	inspectassiez /ɛ̃s.pɛk.ta.sje/	inspectassent /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	inspecte /ɛ̃s.pɛkt/	—	inspectons /ɛ̃s.pɛk.tɔ̃/	inspectez /ɛ̃s.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).

Related terms

• inspecteur

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

īnspecter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of īnspectō