teinter

French

Etymology

From teinte; ultimately from Latin tingere (“to dye, paint”). Compare Spanish tintar.

Pronunciation

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Verb

teinter

1. to tint; to color

Conjugation

Conjugation of teinter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	teinter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	teintant /tɛ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		teinté /tɛ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	teinte /tɛ̃t/	teintes /tɛ̃t/	teinte /tɛ̃t/	teintons /tɛ̃.tɔ̃/	teintez /tɛ̃.te/	teintent /tɛ̃t/
	imperfect	teintais /tɛ̃.tɛ/	teintais /tɛ̃.tɛ/	teintait /tɛ̃.tɛ/	teintions /tɛ̃.tjɔ̃/	teintiez /tɛ̃.tje/	teintaient /tɛ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	teintai /tɛ̃.te/	teintas /tɛ̃.ta/	teinta /tɛ̃.ta/	teintâmes /tɛ̃.tam/	teintâtes /tɛ̃.tat/	teintèrent /tɛ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	teinterai /tɛ̃.tʁe/	teinteras /tɛ̃.tʁa/	teintera /tɛ̃.tʁa/	teinterons /tɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/	teinterez /tɛ̃.tʁe/	teinteront /tɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	teinterais /tɛ̃.tʁɛ/	teinterais /tɛ̃.tʁɛ/	teinterait /tɛ̃.tʁɛ/	teinterions /tɛ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	teinteriez /tɛ̃.tə.ʁje/	teinteraient /tɛ̃.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	teinte /tɛ̃t/	teintes /tɛ̃t/	teinte /tɛ̃t/	teintions /tɛ̃.tjɔ̃/	teintiez /tɛ̃.tje/	teintent /tɛ̃t/
	imperfect2	teintasse /tɛ̃.tas/	teintasses /tɛ̃.tas/	teintât /tɛ̃.ta/	teintassions /tɛ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	teintassiez /tɛ̃.ta.sje/	teintassent /tɛ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	teinte /tɛ̃t/	—	teintons /tɛ̃.tɔ̃/	teintez /tɛ̃.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

• teint
• teinté
• teinture

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• étirent, étreint, intérêt, itèrent, reteint, retenti, retient