profiter

English

Etymology

From profit +‎ -er.

Noun

profiter (plural profiters)

1. One who profits.

Hyponyms

• profiteer

Translations

Translations

Spanish: lucrante c

Anagrams

• portfire

French

Etymology

From profit +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.fi.te/

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Verb

profiter (intransitive)

1. to take advantage of, make the most of, enjoy [with de]
2. to be profitable or beneficial [with à]

   bien mal acquis ne profite jamais ― ill-gotten gains never prosper

3. (colloquial) to thrive, do well; wear well (of clothes); to soak up (sun, atmosphere)

Conjugation

Conjugation of profiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	profiter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	profitant /pʁɔ.fi.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		profité /pʁɔ.fi.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	profite /pʁɔ.fit/	profites /pʁɔ.fit/	profite /pʁɔ.fit/	profitons /pʁɔ.fi.tɔ̃/	profitez /pʁɔ.fi.te/	profitent /pʁɔ.fit/
	imperfect	profitais /pʁɔ.fi.tɛ/	profitais /pʁɔ.fi.tɛ/	profitait /pʁɔ.fi.tɛ/	profitions /pʁɔ.fi.tjɔ̃/	profitiez /pʁɔ.fi.tje/	profitaient /pʁɔ.fi.tɛ/
	past historic2	profitai /pʁɔ.fi.te/	profitas /pʁɔ.fi.ta/	profita /pʁɔ.fi.ta/	profitâmes /pʁɔ.fi.tam/	profitâtes /pʁɔ.fi.tat/	profitèrent /pʁɔ.fi.tɛʁ/
	future	profiterai /pʁɔ.fi.tʁe/	profiteras /pʁɔ.fi.tʁa/	profitera /pʁɔ.fi.tʁa/	profiterons /pʁɔ.fi.tʁɔ̃/	profiterez /pʁɔ.fi.tʁe/	profiteront /pʁɔ.fi.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	profiterais /pʁɔ.fi.tʁɛ/	profiterais /pʁɔ.fi.tʁɛ/	profiterait /pʁɔ.fi.tʁɛ/	profiterions /pʁɔ.fi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	profiteriez /pʁɔ.fi.tə.ʁje/	profiteraient /pʁɔ.fi.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	profite /pʁɔ.fit/	profites /pʁɔ.fit/	profite /pʁɔ.fit/	profitions /pʁɔ.fi.tjɔ̃/	profitiez /pʁɔ.fi.tje/	profitent /pʁɔ.fit/
	imperfect2	profitasse /pʁɔ.fi.tas/	profitasses /pʁɔ.fi.tas/	profitât /pʁɔ.fi.ta/	profitassions /pʁɔ.fi.ta.sjɔ̃/	profitassiez /pʁɔ.fi.ta.sje/	profitassent /pʁɔ.fi.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	profite /pʁɔ.fit/	—	profitons /pʁɔ.fi.tɔ̃/	profitez /pʁɔ.fi.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

• profiter

Further reading

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

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /profǐteːr/
• Hyphenation: pro‧fi‧ter

Noun

profìtēr m anim (Cyrillic spelling профѝте̄р)

1. profiteer

Declension

Declension of profiter

	singular	plural
nominative	profìtēr	profiteri
genitive	profitéra	profitera
dative	profiteru	profiterima
accusative	profitera	profitere
vocative	profiteru	profiteri
locative	profiteru	profiterima
instrumental	profiterom	profiterima

Swedish

Noun

profiter

1. indefinite plural of profit