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Fromrate(“to appraise”) +-er.
rater (pluralraters)
Fromrate(“to scold; berate”) +-er.
rater (pluralraters)
Emerged in the early 1700s, likely originally in reference to a firearm misfiring, from the expression (1651)prendre un rat(“to misfire”, literally“to get a rat”), fromrat(“rat”). More atrat.
rater
| infinitive | simple | rater | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle orgerund1 | simple | ratant /ʁa.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | raté /ʁa.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | rate /ʁat/ | rates /ʁat/ | rate /ʁat/ | ratons /ʁa.tɔ̃/ | ratez /ʁa.te/ | ratent /ʁat/ |
| imperfect | ratais /ʁa.tɛ/ | ratais /ʁa.tɛ/ | ratait /ʁa.tɛ/ | rations /ʁa.tjɔ̃/ | ratiez /ʁa.tje/ | rataient /ʁa.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ratai /ʁa.te/ | ratas /ʁa.ta/ | rata /ʁa.ta/ | ratâmes /ʁa.tam/ | ratâtes /ʁa.tat/ | ratèrent /ʁa.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | raterai /ʁa.tʁe/ | rateras /ʁa.tʁa/ | ratera /ʁa.tʁa/ | raterons /ʁa.tʁɔ̃/ | raterez /ʁa.tʁe/ | rateront /ʁa.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | raterais /ʁa.tʁɛ/ | raterais /ʁa.tʁɛ/ | raterait /ʁa.tʁɛ/ | raterions /ʁa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | rateriez /ʁa.tə.ʁje/ | rateraient /ʁa.tʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative ofavoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | rate /ʁat/ | rates /ʁat/ | rate /ʁat/ | rations /ʁa.tjɔ̃/ | ratiez /ʁa.tje/ | ratent /ʁat/ |
| imperfect2 | ratasse /ʁa.tas/ | ratasses /ʁa.tas/ | ratât /ʁa.ta/ | ratassions /ʁa.ta.sjɔ̃/ | ratassiez /ʁa.ta.sje/ | ratassent /ʁa.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive ofavoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive ofavoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rate /ʁat/ | — | ratons /ʁa.tɔ̃/ | ratez /ʁa.te/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | — | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | simple imperative ofavoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen. | |||||||
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). | |||||||
rater
| infinitive | rater,raté | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| auxiliary verb | avei | gerund | ratan | |||
| past participle | raté | |||||
| person | singular | plural | ||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | |
| indicative | ie | tu | el / ela | nos | vos | ei / eles |
| present | rate,rateie | rates,rateies | rata,rateia,ratea | raton | rateis | rata,rateia |
| imperfect | ratove | ratoves | ratova | ratovan | ratovais | ratova |
| future | rataré | rataras | ratarà | rataron | ratareis | ratarà |
| subjunctive | che ie | che tu | che el / ela | che nos | che vos | che ei / eles |
| present | rate,rateie | rates,rateies | rate,rateie | raton | rateis | rate |
| imperfect | ratasse | ratasses | ratassa | ratassan | ratassais | ratassa |
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – |
| — | rata,rateia | — | raton | ratede | — | |
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