excepter

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin exceptāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.sɛp.te/

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Verb

excepter

1. (transitive) to exclude (not to count, to make an exception for)

Conjugation

Conjugation of excepter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	excepter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	exceptant /ɛk.sɛp.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		excepté /ɛk.sɛp.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	excepte /ɛk.sɛpt/	exceptes /ɛk.sɛpt/	excepte /ɛk.sɛpt/	exceptons /ɛk.sɛp.tɔ̃/	exceptez /ɛk.sɛp.te/	exceptent /ɛk.sɛpt/
	imperfect	exceptais /ɛk.sɛp.tɛ/	exceptais /ɛk.sɛp.tɛ/	exceptait /ɛk.sɛp.tɛ/	exceptions /ɛk.sɛp.tjɔ̃/	exceptiez /ɛk.sɛp.tje/	exceptaient /ɛk.sɛp.tɛ/
	past historic2	exceptai /ɛk.sɛp.te/	exceptas /ɛk.sɛp.ta/	excepta /ɛk.sɛp.ta/	exceptâmes /ɛk.sɛp.tam/	exceptâtes /ɛk.sɛp.tat/	exceptèrent /ɛk.sɛp.tɛʁ/
	future	excepterai /ɛk.sɛp.tə.ʁe/	excepteras /ɛk.sɛp.tə.ʁa/	exceptera /ɛk.sɛp.tə.ʁa/	excepterons /ɛk.sɛp.tə.ʁɔ̃/	excepterez /ɛk.sɛp.tə.ʁe/	excepteront /ɛk.sɛp.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	excepterais /ɛk.sɛp.tə.ʁɛ/	excepterais /ɛk.sɛp.tə.ʁɛ/	excepterait /ɛk.sɛp.tə.ʁɛ/	excepterions /ɛk.sɛp.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	excepteriez /ɛk.sɛp.tə.ʁje/	excepteraient /ɛk.sɛp.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	excepte /ɛk.sɛpt/	exceptes /ɛk.sɛpt/	excepte /ɛk.sɛpt/	exceptions /ɛk.sɛp.tjɔ̃/	exceptiez /ɛk.sɛp.tje/	exceptent /ɛk.sɛpt/
	imperfect2	exceptasse /ɛk.sɛp.tas/	exceptasses /ɛk.sɛp.tas/	exceptât /ɛk.sɛp.ta/	exceptassions /ɛk.sɛp.ta.sjɔ̃/	exceptassiez /ɛk.sɛp.ta.sje/	exceptassent /ɛk.sɛp.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	excepte /ɛk.sɛpt/	—	exceptons /ɛk.sɛp.tɔ̃/	exceptez /ɛk.sɛp.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).

Related terms

• exception

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

excepter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of exceptō