appointer

English

Etymology

appoint +‎ -er.

Noun

appointer (plural appointers)

1. A person who appoints (in any sense).

Translations

A person who appoints someone or something.

• Maori: kaikopou

Anagrams

• reappoint

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French apointier. By surface analysis, a- +‎ point +‎ -er. Possibly corresponds to a Late Latin appunctāre, from Latin ad + punctum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pwɛ̃.te/

• Audio:

  (file)

Verb

appointer

1. to salary (attribute a salary to a position)
2. to appoint (attribute a job, a position to someone)
3. to sharpen into a point

   appointer un crayon

   to sharpen a pencil

4. (reflexive, s'appointer) to unite; to become united

Conjugation

Conjugation of appointer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	appointer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	appointant /a.pwɛ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		appointé /a.pwɛ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	appointe /a.pwɛ̃t/	appointes /a.pwɛ̃t/	appointe /a.pwɛ̃t/	appointons /a.pwɛ̃.tɔ̃/	appointez /a.pwɛ̃.te/	appointent /a.pwɛ̃t/
	imperfect	appointais /a.pwɛ̃.tɛ/	appointais /a.pwɛ̃.tɛ/	appointait /a.pwɛ̃.tɛ/	appointions /a.pwɛ̃.tjɔ̃/	appointiez /a.pwɛ̃.tje/	appointaient /a.pwɛ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	appointai /a.pwɛ̃.te/	appointas /a.pwɛ̃.ta/	appointa /a.pwɛ̃.ta/	appointâmes /a.pwɛ̃.tam/	appointâtes /a.pwɛ̃.tat/	appointèrent /a.pwɛ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	appointerai /a.pwɛ̃.tʁe/	appointeras /a.pwɛ̃.tʁa/	appointera /a.pwɛ̃.tʁa/	appointerons /a.pwɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/	appointerez /a.pwɛ̃.tʁe/	appointeront /a.pwɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	appointerais /a.pwɛ̃.tʁɛ/	appointerais /a.pwɛ̃.tʁɛ/	appointerait /a.pwɛ̃.tʁɛ/	appointerions /a.pwɛ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	appointeriez /a.pwɛ̃.tə.ʁje/	appointeraient /a.pwɛ̃.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	appointe /a.pwɛ̃t/	appointes /a.pwɛ̃t/	appointe /a.pwɛ̃t/	appointions /a.pwɛ̃.tjɔ̃/	appointiez /a.pwɛ̃.tje/	appointent /a.pwɛ̃t/
	imperfect2	appointasse /a.pwɛ̃.tas/	appointasses /a.pwɛ̃.tas/	appointât /a.pwɛ̃.ta/	appointassions /a.pwɛ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	appointassiez /a.pwɛ̃.ta.sje/	appointassent /a.pwɛ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	appointe /a.pwɛ̃t/	—	appointons /a.pwɛ̃.tɔ̃/	appointez /a.pwɛ̃.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

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