catapulter
English
Noun
catapulter (plural catapulters)
- One who uses a catapult.
- 2009, Matthew Reilly, The Five Greatest Warriors, Simon and Schuster, published 2010, →ISBN, page 118:
- Then he loaded one of the lattice-shrouded cannonballs into the trebuchet’s sling, pulled out a lighter, and, as Genghis Khan’s catapulters would have done 800 years previously, lit the wooden kindling inside it and fired.
French
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Conjugation
Conjugation of catapulter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | catapulter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | catapultant /ka.ta.pyl.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | catapulté /ka.ta.pyl.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | catapulte /ka.ta.pylt/ |
catapultes /ka.ta.pylt/ |
catapulte /ka.ta.pylt/ |
catapultons /ka.ta.pyl.tɔ̃/ |
catapultez /ka.ta.pyl.te/ |
catapultent /ka.ta.pylt/ |
| imperfect | catapultais /ka.ta.pyl.tɛ/ |
catapultais /ka.ta.pyl.tɛ/ |
catapultait /ka.ta.pyl.tɛ/ |
catapultions /ka.ta.pyl.tjɔ̃/ |
catapultiez /ka.ta.pyl.tje/ |
catapultaient /ka.ta.pyl.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | catapultai /ka.ta.pyl.te/ |
catapultas /ka.ta.pyl.ta/ |
catapulta /ka.ta.pyl.ta/ |
catapultâmes /ka.ta.pyl.tam/ |
catapultâtes /ka.ta.pyl.tat/ |
catapultèrent /ka.ta.pyl.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | catapulterai /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁe/ |
catapulteras /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁa/ |
catapultera /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁa/ |
catapulterons /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
catapulterez /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁe/ |
catapulteront /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | catapulterais /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɛ/ |
catapulterais /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɛ/ |
catapulterait /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁɛ/ |
catapulterions /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
catapulteriez /ka.ta.pyl.tə.ʁje/ |
catapulteraient /ka.ta.pyl.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 | catapulte /ka.ta.pylt/ |
catapultes /ka.ta.pylt/ |
catapulte /ka.ta.pylt/ |
catapultions /ka.ta.pyl.tjɔ̃/ |
catapultiez /ka.ta.pyl.tje/ |
catapultent /ka.ta.pylt/ |
| imperfect2 | catapultasse /ka.ta.pyl.tas/ |
catapultasses /ka.ta.pyl.tas/ |
catapultât /ka.ta.pyl.ta/ |
catapultassions /ka.ta.pyl.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
catapultassiez /ka.ta.pyl.ta.sje/ |
catapultassent /ka.ta.pyl.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | catapulte /ka.ta.pylt/ |
— | catapultons /ka.ta.pyl.tɔ̃/ |
catapultez /ka.ta.pyl.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “catapulter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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