coopter

French

Etymology

From Latin cooptāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ɔp.te/

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Verb

coopter

1. (transitive) to coopt

Conjugation

Conjugation of coopter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	coopter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cooptant /kɔ.ɔp.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		coopté /kɔ.ɔp.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	coopte /kɔ.ɔpt/	cooptes /kɔ.ɔpt/	coopte /kɔ.ɔpt/	cooptons /kɔ.ɔp.tɔ̃/	cooptez /kɔ.ɔp.te/	cooptent /kɔ.ɔpt/
	imperfect	cooptais /kɔ.ɔp.tɛ/	cooptais /kɔ.ɔp.tɛ/	cooptait /kɔ.ɔp.tɛ/	cooptions /kɔ.ɔp.tjɔ̃/	cooptiez /kɔ.ɔp.tje/	cooptaient /kɔ.ɔp.tɛ/
	past historic2	cooptai /kɔ.ɔp.te/	cooptas /kɔ.ɔp.ta/	coopta /kɔ.ɔp.ta/	cooptâmes /kɔ.ɔp.tam/	cooptâtes /kɔ.ɔp.tat/	cooptèrent /kɔ.ɔp.tɛʁ/
	future	coopterai /kɔ.ɔp.tə.ʁe/	coopteras /kɔ.ɔp.tə.ʁa/	cooptera /kɔ.ɔp.tə.ʁa/	coopterons /kɔ.ɔp.tə.ʁɔ̃/	coopterez /kɔ.ɔp.tə.ʁe/	coopteront /kɔ.ɔp.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	coopterais /kɔ.ɔp.tə.ʁɛ/	coopterais /kɔ.ɔp.tə.ʁɛ/	coopterait /kɔ.ɔp.tə.ʁɛ/	coopterions /kɔ.ɔp.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	coopteriez /kɔ.ɔp.tə.ʁje/	coopteraient /kɔ.ɔp.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	coopte /kɔ.ɔpt/	cooptes /kɔ.ɔpt/	coopte /kɔ.ɔpt/	cooptions /kɔ.ɔp.tjɔ̃/	cooptiez /kɔ.ɔp.tje/	cooptent /kɔ.ɔpt/
	imperfect2	cooptasse /kɔ.ɔp.tas/	cooptasses /kɔ.ɔp.tas/	cooptât /kɔ.ɔp.ta/	cooptassions /kɔ.ɔp.ta.sjɔ̃/	cooptassiez /kɔ.ɔp.ta.sje/	cooptassent /kɔ.ɔp.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	coopte /kɔ.ɔpt/	—	cooptons /kɔ.ɔp.tɔ̃/	cooptez /kɔ.ɔp.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

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

Latin

Verb

coopter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cooptō