capter

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin captāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kap.te/

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• Homophones: capté, captée, captées, captés, captez
• Rhymes: -e

Verb

capter

1. to capture, to catch, to pick up
2. to detect, to sense, to receive
3. (informal) to understand

   Synonyms: piger, entraver, comprendre

   On dirait qu’il a rien capté de c’que j’lui ai raconté.

   He looks like [or it's as if] he hasn't understood anything I've told him.

4. (informal) to meet or see someone

Conjugation

Conjugation of capter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	capter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	captant /kap.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		capté /kap.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(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/
	past historic2	captai /kap.te/	captas /kap.ta/	capta /kap.ta/	captâmes /kap.tam/	captâtes /kap.tat/	captèrent /kap.tɛʁ/
	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/
	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/
(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	capte /kapt/	captes /kapt/	capte /kapt/	captions /kap.tjɔ̃/	captiez /kap.tje/	captent /kapt/
	imperfect2	captasse /kap.tas/	captasses /kap.tas/	captât /kap.ta/	captassions /kap.ta.sjɔ̃/	captassiez /kap.ta.sje/	captassent /kap.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	capte /kapt/	—	captons /kap.tɔ̃/	captez /kap.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).

Derived terms

• captable
• captage
• captateur, captatrice
• captation
• captativité
• captatoire
• capteur
• recapter

 

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• crapet, crêpât, perçât, pétrac

Latin

Verb

capter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of captō