escompter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛs.kɔ̃.te/

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Verb

escompter

1. to discount because of a payment by anticipation
2. to anticipate, to be in the hope of

Conjugation

Conjugation of escompter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	escompter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	escomptant /ɛs.kɔ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		escompté /ɛs.kɔ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	escompte /ɛs.kɔ̃t/	escomptes /ɛs.kɔ̃t/	escompte /ɛs.kɔ̃t/	escomptons /ɛs.kɔ̃.tɔ̃/	escomptez /ɛs.kɔ̃.te/	escomptent /ɛs.kɔ̃t/
	imperfect	escomptais /ɛs.kɔ̃.tɛ/	escomptais /ɛs.kɔ̃.tɛ/	escomptait /ɛs.kɔ̃.tɛ/	escomptions /ɛs.kɔ̃.tjɔ̃/	escomptiez /ɛs.kɔ̃.tje/	escomptaient /ɛs.kɔ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	escomptai /ɛs.kɔ̃.te/	escomptas /ɛs.kɔ̃.ta/	escompta /ɛs.kɔ̃.ta/	escomptâmes /ɛs.kɔ̃.tam/	escomptâtes /ɛs.kɔ̃.tat/	escomptèrent /ɛs.kɔ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	escompterai /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁe/	escompteras /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁa/	escomptera /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁa/	escompterons /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/	escompterez /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁe/	escompteront /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	escompterais /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁɛ/	escompterais /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁɛ/	escompterait /ɛs.kɔ̃.tʁɛ/	escompterions /ɛs.kɔ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	escompteriez /ɛs.kɔ̃.tə.ʁje/	escompteraient /ɛs.kɔ̃.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	escompte /ɛs.kɔ̃t/	escomptes /ɛs.kɔ̃t/	escompte /ɛs.kɔ̃t/	escomptions /ɛs.kɔ̃.tjɔ̃/	escomptiez /ɛs.kɔ̃.tje/	escomptent /ɛs.kɔ̃t/
	imperfect2	escomptasse /ɛs.kɔ̃.tas/	escomptasses /ɛs.kɔ̃.tas/	escomptât /ɛs.kɔ̃.ta/	escomptassions /ɛs.kɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	escomptassiez /ɛs.kɔ̃.ta.sje/	escomptassent /ɛs.kɔ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	escompte /ɛs.kɔ̃t/	—	escomptons /ɛs.kɔ̃.tɔ̃/	escomptez /ɛs.kɔ̃.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

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

Anagrams

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