feinter

English

Etymology

From feint +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfeɪn.təɹ/

Noun

feinter (plural feinters)

1. Someone who feints.

Anagrams

• tinfree

French

Etymology

From feinte +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛ̃.te/

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Verb

feinter

1. (sports) to feint

Conjugation

Conjugation of feinter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	feinter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	feintant /fɛ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		feinté /fɛ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	feinte /fɛ̃t/	feintes /fɛ̃t/	feinte /fɛ̃t/	feintons /fɛ̃.tɔ̃/	feintez /fɛ̃.te/	feintent /fɛ̃t/
	imperfect	feintais /fɛ̃.tɛ/	feintais /fɛ̃.tɛ/	feintait /fɛ̃.tɛ/	feintions /fɛ̃.tjɔ̃/	feintiez /fɛ̃.tje/	feintaient /fɛ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	feintai /fɛ̃.te/	feintas /fɛ̃.ta/	feinta /fɛ̃.ta/	feintâmes /fɛ̃.tam/	feintâtes /fɛ̃.tat/	feintèrent /fɛ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	feinterai /fɛ̃.tʁe/	feinteras /fɛ̃.tʁa/	feintera /fɛ̃.tʁa/	feinterons /fɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/	feinterez /fɛ̃.tʁe/	feinteront /fɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	feinterais /fɛ̃.tʁɛ/	feinterais /fɛ̃.tʁɛ/	feinterait /fɛ̃.tʁɛ/	feinterions /fɛ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	feinteriez /fɛ̃.tə.ʁje/	feinteraient /fɛ̃.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	feinte /fɛ̃t/	feintes /fɛ̃t/	feinte /fɛ̃t/	feintions /fɛ̃.tjɔ̃/	feintiez /fɛ̃.tje/	feintent /fɛ̃t/
	imperfect2	feintasse /fɛ̃.tas/	feintasses /fɛ̃.tas/	feintât /fɛ̃.ta/	feintassions /fɛ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	feintassiez /fɛ̃.ta.sje/	feintassent /fɛ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	feinte /fɛ̃t/	—	feintons /fɛ̃.tɔ̃/	feintez /fɛ̃.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

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