orienter

English

Etymology

From orient +‎ -er.

Noun

orienter (plural orienters)

1. A person or thing that orients.
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     […] an agreement about their Significance in the sense that there is acceptance of the appropriateness of these signals and signs as orienters of interaction in a specific social situation and a commonality of response to them.

Anagrams

• reorient

French

Etymology

From orient +‎ -er, from Old French oriant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.te/

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Verb

orienter

1. to orientate
2. to set to north
3. to guide

Conjugation

Conjugation of orienter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	orienter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	orientant /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		orienté /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	oriente /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃t/	orientes /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃t/	oriente /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃t/	orientons /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɔ̃/	orientez /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.te/	orientent /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃t/
	imperfect	orientais /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɛ/	orientais /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɛ/	orientait /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɛ/	orientions /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	orientiez /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tje/	orientaient /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	orientai /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.te/	orientas /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta/	orienta /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta/	orientâmes /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tam/	orientâtes /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tat/	orientèrent /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	orienterai /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tʁe/	orienteras /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tʁa/	orientera /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tʁa/	orienterons /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	orienterez /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tʁe/	orienteront /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	orienterais /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tʁɛ/	orienterais /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tʁɛ/	orienterait /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tʁɛ/	orienterions /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	orienteriez /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	orienteraient /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.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	oriente /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃t/	orientes /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃t/	oriente /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃t/	orientions /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	orientiez /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tje/	orientent /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	orientasse /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tas/	orientasses /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tas/	orientât /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta/	orientassions /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	orientassiez /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.ta.sje/	orientassent /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	oriente /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃t/	—	orientons /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.tɔ̃/	orientez /ɔ.ʁjɑ̃.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

• programmation orientée objet

Related terms

• orientation

Descendants

• → Turkish: oryante (via past participle)

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

orienter

1. imperative of orientere