cacheter

French

Etymology

From cachet +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaʃ.te/

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Verb

cacheter

1. (transitive) to seal (put a seal on a letter, a package, a wine bottle, etc.)

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il cachète and the third-person singular future indicative il cachètera.

Conjugation of cacheter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cacheter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cachetant /kaʃ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cacheté /kaʃ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cachète /ka.ʃɛt/	cachètes /ka.ʃɛt/	cachète /ka.ʃɛt/	cachetons /kaʃ.tɔ̃/	cachetez /kaʃ.te/	cachètent /ka.ʃɛt/
	imperfect	cachetais /kaʃ.tɛ/	cachetais /kaʃ.tɛ/	cachetait /kaʃ.tɛ/	cachetions /ka.ʃə.tjɔ̃/	cachetiez /ka.ʃə.tje/	cachetaient /kaʃ.tɛ/
	past historic2	cachetai /kaʃ.te/	cachetas /kaʃ.ta/	cacheta /kaʃ.ta/	cachetâmes /kaʃ.tam/	cachetâtes /kaʃ.tat/	cachetèrent /kaʃ.tɛʁ/
	future	cachèterai /ka.ʃɛ.tʁe/ or /ka.ʃe.tʁe/	cachèteras /ka.ʃɛ.tʁa/ or /ka.ʃe.tʁa/	cachètera /ka.ʃɛ.tʁa/ or /ka.ʃe.tʁa/	cachèterons /ka.ʃɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ka.ʃe.tʁɔ̃/	cachèterez /ka.ʃɛ.tʁe/ or /ka.ʃe.tʁe/	cachèteront /ka.ʃɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ka.ʃe.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cachèterais /ka.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.ʃe.tʁɛ/	cachèterais /ka.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.ʃe.tʁɛ/	cachèterait /ka.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.ʃe.tʁɛ/	cachèterions /ka.ʃɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ka.ʃe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	cachèteriez /ka.ʃɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ka.ʃe.tə.ʁje/	cachèteraient /ka.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.ʃe.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	cachète /ka.ʃɛt/	cachètes /ka.ʃɛt/	cachète /ka.ʃɛt/	cachetions /ka.ʃə.tjɔ̃/	cachetiez /ka.ʃə.tje/	cachètent /ka.ʃɛt/
	imperfect2	cachetasse /kaʃ.tas/	cachetasses /kaʃ.tas/	cachetât /kaʃ.ta/	cachetassions /kaʃ.ta.sjɔ̃/	cachetassiez /kaʃ.ta.sje/	cachetassent /kaʃ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cachète /ka.ʃɛt/	—	cachetons /kaʃ.tɔ̃/	cachetez /kaʃ.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

• pain à cacheter

Further reading

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