sculpter

English

Noun

sculpter

1. Misspelling of sculptor.

French

Etymology

A contamination between the obsolete verb sculper (a borrowing from Latin sculpō), which it displaced, and sculpteur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skyl.te/

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• Homophones: sculptai, sculpté, sculptée, sculptées, sculptés, sculptez

Verb

sculpter

1. to sculpt

Conjugation

Conjugation of sculpter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sculpter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sculptant /skyl.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sculpté /skyl.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sculpte /skylt/	sculptes /skylt/	sculpte /skylt/	sculptons /skyl.tɔ̃/	sculptez /skyl.te/	sculptent /skylt/
	imperfect	sculptais /skyl.tɛ/	sculptais /skyl.tɛ/	sculptait /skyl.tɛ/	sculptions /skyl.tjɔ̃/	sculptiez /skyl.tje/	sculptaient /skyl.tɛ/
	past historic2	sculptai /skyl.te/	sculptas /skyl.ta/	sculpta /skyl.ta/	sculptâmes /skyl.tam/	sculptâtes /skyl.tat/	sculptèrent /skyl.tɛʁ/
	future	sculpterai /skyl.tə.ʁe/	sculpteras /skyl.tə.ʁa/	sculptera /skyl.tə.ʁa/	sculpterons /skyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/	sculpterez /skyl.tə.ʁe/	sculpteront /skyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sculpterais /skyl.tə.ʁɛ/	sculpterais /skyl.tə.ʁɛ/	sculpterait /skyl.tə.ʁɛ/	sculpterions /skyl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	sculpteriez /skyl.tə.ʁje/	sculpteraient /skyl.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	sculpte /skylt/	sculptes /skylt/	sculpte /skylt/	sculptions /skyl.tjɔ̃/	sculptiez /skyl.tje/	sculptent /skylt/
	imperfect2	sculptasse /skyl.tas/	sculptasses /skyl.tas/	sculptât /skyl.ta/	sculptassions /skyl.ta.sjɔ̃/	sculptassiez /skyl.ta.sje/	sculptassent /skyl.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sculpte /skylt/	—	sculptons /skyl.tɔ̃/	sculptez /skyl.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

• sculpteur
• sculpture

Further reading

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