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composter
composter
English
Noun
composter (plural composters)
- A person or business that composts waste
- 2007 October 10, J. Michael Kennedy, “Seattle’s Recycling Success Is Being Measured in Scraps”, in New York Times:
- The company, the major composter in this area, will soon have much more trash coming its way because Seattle is making food waste yet another mandatory recycling ingredient in its already long list.
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- A container for producing compost.
Translations
person or business
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container
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French
Verb
composter
Conjugation
Conjugation of composter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | composter | avoir composté | |||||
| gerund | en compostant | en ayant composté | |||||
| present participle | compostant /kɔ̃.pɔs.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | composté /kɔ̃.pɔs.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 | composte /kɔ̃.pɔst/ |
compostes /kɔ̃.pɔst/ |
composte /kɔ̃.pɔst/ |
compostons /kɔ̃.pɔs.tɔ̃/ |
compostez /kɔ̃.pɔs.te/ |
compostent /kɔ̃.pɔst/ |
| imperfect | compostais /kɔ̃.pɔs.tɛ/ |
compostais /kɔ̃.pɔs.tɛ/ |
compostait /kɔ̃.pɔs.tɛ/ |
compostions /kɔ̃.pɔs.tjɔ̃/ |
compostiez /kɔ̃.pɔs.tje/ |
compostaient /kɔ̃.pɔs.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | compostai /kɔ̃.pɔs.te/ |
compostas /kɔ̃.pɔs.ta/ |
composta /kɔ̃.pɔs.ta/ |
compostâmes /kɔ̃.pɔs.tam/ |
compostâtes /kɔ̃.pɔs.tat/ |
compostèrent /kɔ̃.pɔs.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | composterai /kɔ̃.pɔs.tə.ʁe/ |
composteras /kɔ̃.pɔs.tə.ʁa/ |
compostera /kɔ̃.pɔs.tə.ʁa/ |
composterons /kɔ̃.pɔs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
composterez /kɔ̃.pɔs.tə.ʁe/ |
composteront /kɔ̃.pɔs.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | composterais /kɔ̃.pɔs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
composterais /kɔ̃.pɔs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
composterait /kɔ̃.pɔs.tə.ʁɛ/ |
composterions /kɔ̃.pɔs.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
composteriez /kɔ̃.pɔs.tə.ʁje/ |
composteraient /kɔ̃.pɔs.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 | composte /kɔ̃.pɔst/ |
compostes /kɔ̃.pɔst/ |
composte /kɔ̃.pɔst/ |
compostions /kɔ̃.pɔs.tjɔ̃/ |
compostiez /kɔ̃.pɔs.tje/ |
compostent /kɔ̃.pɔst/ |
| imperfect1 |
compostasse /kɔ̃.pɔs.tas/ |
compostasses /kɔ̃.pɔs.tas/ |
compostât /kɔ̃.pɔs.ta/ |
compostassions /kɔ̃.pɔs.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
compostassiez /kɔ̃.pɔs.ta.sje/ |
compostassent /kɔ̃.pɔs.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 | – | |
| — | composte /kɔ̃.pɔst/ |
— | compostons /kɔ̃.pɔs.tɔ̃/ |
compostez /kɔ̃.pɔs.te/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||