acter

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæk.tə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈæk.tɚ/

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• Homophone: actor
• Rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From act +‎ -er (“person or thing to which a certain number or measurement applies”).

Noun

acter (plural acters)

1. (in combination) A play or film with a particular number of acts.

   a one-acter

   a two-acter

Etymology 2

From act +‎ -er (forming agent nouns).

Noun

acter (plural acters)

1. (uncommon, nonstandard) An actor, someone who or something which acts.

Anagrams

• Carte, Trace, reäct, Certa, carte, crate, cater, caret, react, Cater, creat, trace, recta

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak.te/

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Verb

acter

1. to enact

Conjugation

Conjugation of acter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	acter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	actant /ak.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		acté /ak.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	acte /akt/	actes /akt/	acte /akt/	actons /ak.tɔ̃/	actez /ak.te/	actent /akt/
	imperfect	actais /ak.tɛ/	actais /ak.tɛ/	actait /ak.tɛ/	actions /ak.tjɔ̃/	actiez /ak.tje/	actaient /ak.tɛ/
	past historic2	actai /ak.te/	actas /ak.ta/	acta /ak.ta/	actâmes /ak.tam/	actâtes /ak.tat/	actèrent /ak.tɛʁ/
	future	acterai /ak.tə.ʁe/	acteras /ak.tə.ʁa/	actera /ak.tə.ʁa/	acterons /ak.tə.ʁɔ̃/	acterez /ak.tə.ʁe/	acteront /ak.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	acterais /ak.tə.ʁɛ/	acterais /ak.tə.ʁɛ/	acterait /ak.tə.ʁɛ/	acterions /ak.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	acteriez /ak.tə.ʁje/	acteraient /ak.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	acte /akt/	actes /akt/	acte /akt/	actions /ak.tjɔ̃/	actiez /ak.tje/	actent /akt/
	imperfect2	actasse /ak.tas/	actasses /ak.tas/	actât /ak.ta/	actassions /ak.ta.sjɔ̃/	actassiez /ak.ta.sje/	actassent /ak.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	acte /akt/	—	actons /ak.tɔ̃/	actez /ak.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

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