postdater

French

Etymology

From postdate +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔst.da.te/

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Verb

postdater

1. (transitive) to postdate

   Antonym: antidater

Conjugation

Conjugation of postdater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	postdater
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	postdatant /pɔst.da.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		postdaté /pɔst.da.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	postdate /pɔst.dat/	postdates /pɔst.dat/	postdate /pɔst.dat/	postdatons /pɔst.da.tɔ̃/	postdatez /pɔst.da.te/	postdatent /pɔst.dat/
	imperfect	postdatais /pɔst.da.tɛ/	postdatais /pɔst.da.tɛ/	postdatait /pɔst.da.tɛ/	postdations /pɔst.da.tjɔ̃/	postdatiez /pɔst.da.tje/	postdataient /pɔst.da.tɛ/
	past historic2	postdatai /pɔst.da.te/	postdatas /pɔst.da.ta/	postdata /pɔst.da.ta/	postdatâmes /pɔst.da.tam/	postdatâtes /pɔst.da.tat/	postdatèrent /pɔst.da.tɛʁ/
	future	postdaterai /pɔst.da.tʁe/	postdateras /pɔst.da.tʁa/	postdatera /pɔst.da.tʁa/	postdaterons /pɔst.da.tʁɔ̃/	postdaterez /pɔst.da.tʁe/	postdateront /pɔst.da.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	postdaterais /pɔst.da.tʁɛ/	postdaterais /pɔst.da.tʁɛ/	postdaterait /pɔst.da.tʁɛ/	postdaterions /pɔst.da.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	postdateriez /pɔst.da.tə.ʁje/	postdateraient /pɔst.da.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	postdate /pɔst.dat/	postdates /pɔst.dat/	postdate /pɔst.dat/	postdations /pɔst.da.tjɔ̃/	postdatiez /pɔst.da.tje/	postdatent /pɔst.dat/
	imperfect2	postdatasse /pɔst.da.tas/	postdatasses /pɔst.da.tas/	postdatât /pɔst.da.ta/	postdatassions /pɔst.da.ta.sjɔ̃/	postdatassiez /pɔst.da.ta.sje/	postdatassent /pɔst.da.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	postdate /pɔst.dat/	—	postdatons /pɔst.da.tɔ̃/	postdatez /pɔst.da.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

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