respecter

English

Etymology

respect +‎ -er

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)

Noun

respecter (plural respecters)

  1. One who regards or judges with partiality; one who respects.
    • Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, chapter 2
      For these two were old friends, old mates both at school and college, both thorough respecters of themselves and each other..
  2. A person who respects someone or something; usually used in the negative; "X is no respecter of Y".

Derived terms

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin respectō, respectāre.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʁɛs.pɛk.te/
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Verb

respecter

  1. to respect
  2. to meet (deadline)
  3. to comply with (rules, laws)

Conjugation
Conjugation of respecter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle respectant
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tɑ̃/
past participle respecté
/ʁɛs.pɛk.te/
infinitive
simple respecter
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple respectant
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present respecte
/ʁɛs.pɛkt/		 respectes
/ʁɛs.pɛkt/		 respecte
/ʁɛs.pɛkt/		 respectons
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tɔ̃/		 respectez
/ʁɛs.pɛk.te/		 respectent
/ʁɛs.pɛkt/
imperfect respectais
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ/		 respectais
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ/		 respectait
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ/		 respections
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tjɔ̃/		 respectiez
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tje/		 respectaient
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛ/
past historic2 respectai
/ʁɛs.pɛk.te/		 respectas
/ʁɛs.pɛk.ta/		 respecta
/ʁɛs.pɛk.ta/		 respectâmes
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tam/		 respectâtes
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tat/		 respectèrent
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tɛʁ/
future respecterai
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁe/		 respecteras
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁa/		 respectera
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁa/		 respecterons
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/		 respecterez
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁe/		 respecteront
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional respecterais
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/		 respecterais
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/		 respecterait
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/		 respecterions
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁjɔ̃/		 respecteriez
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tə.ʁje/		 respecteraient
/ʁɛs.pɛk.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 respecte
/ʁɛs.pɛkt/		 respectes
/ʁɛs.pɛkt/		 respecte
/ʁɛs.pɛkt/		 respections
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tjɔ̃/		 respectiez
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tje/		 respectent
/ʁɛs.pɛkt/
imperfect2 respectasse
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tas/		 respectasses
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tas/		 respectât
/ʁɛs.pɛk.ta/		 respectassions
/ʁɛs.pɛk.ta.sjɔ̃/		 respectassiez
/ʁɛs.pɛk.ta.sje/		 respectassent
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — respecte
/ʁɛs.pɛkt/		 — respectons
/ʁɛs.pɛk.tɔ̃/		 respectez
/ʁɛs.pɛk.te/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

Latin

Verb

respecter

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of respectō
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