argenter

French

Etymology

From argent +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.te/

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Verb

argenter

1. to silverplate

   Antonym: désargenter

Conjugation

Conjugation of argenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	argenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	argentant /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		argenté /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	argente /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/	argentes /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/	argente /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/	argentons /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɔ̃/	argentez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.te/	argentent /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/
	imperfect	argentais /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/	argentais /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/	argentait /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/	argentions /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	argentiez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tje/	argentaient /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	argentai /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.te/	argentas /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.ta/	argenta /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.ta/	argentâmes /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tam/	argentâtes /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tat/	argentèrent /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	argenterai /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁe/	argenteras /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁa/	argentera /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁa/	argenterons /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	argenterez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁe/	argenteront /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	argenterais /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/	argenterais /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/	argenterait /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/	argenterions /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	argenteriez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	argenteraient /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(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	argente /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/	argentes /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/	argente /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/	argentions /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	argentiez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tje/	argentent /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	argentasse /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tas/	argentasses /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tas/	argentât /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.ta/	argentassions /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	argentassiez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.ta.sje/	argentassent /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	argente /aʁ.ʒɑ̃t/	—	argentons /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.tɔ̃/	argentez /aʁ.ʒɑ̃.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

• argentage
• désargenter

Further reading

• “argenter” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “argenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• étranger, garèrent, ragèrent