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capter
capter
French
Verb
capter
- to capture, to catch, to pick up
- to detect, to sense, to receive (Note: capteur means sensor)
- (informal) to understand
- On dirait qu'il a rien capté de c'que j'lui ai raconté.
Synonyms
- (informal: to understand): piger
Derived terms
Conjugation
Conjugation of capter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | capter | avoir capté | |||||
| gerund | en captant | en ayant capté | |||||
| present participle | captant /kap.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | capté /kap.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | capte /kapt/ |
captes /kapt/ |
capte /kapt/ |
captons /kap.tɔ̃/ |
captez /kap.te/ |
captent /kapt/ |
| imperfect | captais /kap.tɛ/ |
captais /kap.tɛ/ |
captait /kap.tɛ/ |
captions /kap.tjɔ̃/ |
captiez /kap.tje/ |
captaient /kap.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | captai /kap.te/ |
captas /kap.ta/ |
capta /kap.ta/ |
captâmes /kap.tam/ |
captâtes /kap.tat/ |
captèrent /kap.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | capterai /kap.tə.ʁe/ |
capteras /kap.tə.ʁa/ |
captera /kap.tə.ʁa/ |
capterons /kap.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
capterez /kap.tə.ʁe/ |
capteront /kap.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | capterais /kap.tə.ʁɛ/ |
capterais /kap.tə.ʁɛ/ |
capterait /kap.tə.ʁɛ/ |
capterions /kap.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
capteriez /kap.tə.ʁje/ |
capteraient /kap.tə.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | capte /kapt/ |
captes /kapt/ |
capte /kapt/ |
captions /kap.tjɔ̃/ |
captiez /kap.tje/ |
captent /kapt/ |
| imperfect1 |
captasse /kap.tas/ |
captasses /kap.tas/ |
captât /kap.ta/ |
captassions /kap.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
captassiez /kap.ta.sje/ |
captassent /kap.tas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | capte /kapt/ |
— | captons /kap.tɔ̃/ |
captez /kap.te/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||