captiver

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kap.ti.ve/

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Verb

captiver

1. to engross; to captivate (to engage completely)

Conjugation

Conjugation of captiver (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	captiver
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	captivant /kap.ti.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		captivé /kap.ti.ve/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	captive /kap.tiv/	captives /kap.tiv/	captive /kap.tiv/	captivons /kap.ti.vɔ̃/	captivez /kap.ti.ve/	captivent /kap.tiv/
	imperfect	captivais /kap.ti.vɛ/	captivais /kap.ti.vɛ/	captivait /kap.ti.vɛ/	captivions /kap.ti.vjɔ̃/	captiviez /kap.ti.vje/	captivaient /kap.ti.vɛ/
	past historic2	captivai /kap.ti.ve/	captivas /kap.ti.va/	captiva /kap.ti.va/	captivâmes /kap.ti.vam/	captivâtes /kap.ti.vat/	captivèrent /kap.ti.vɛʁ/
	future	captiverai /kap.ti.vʁe/	captiveras /kap.ti.vʁa/	captivera /kap.ti.vʁa/	captiverons /kap.ti.vʁɔ̃/	captiverez /kap.ti.vʁe/	captiveront /kap.ti.vʁɔ̃/
	conditional	captiverais /kap.ti.vʁɛ/	captiverais /kap.ti.vʁɛ/	captiverait /kap.ti.vʁɛ/	captiverions /kap.ti.və.ʁjɔ̃/	captiveriez /kap.ti.və.ʁje/	captiveraient /kap.ti.vʁɛ/
(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	captive /kap.tiv/	captives /kap.tiv/	captive /kap.tiv/	captivions /kap.ti.vjɔ̃/	captiviez /kap.ti.vje/	captivent /kap.tiv/
	imperfect2	captivasse /kap.ti.vas/	captivasses /kap.ti.vas/	captivât /kap.ti.va/	captivassions /kap.ti.va.sjɔ̃/	captivassiez /kap.ti.va.sje/	captivassent /kap.ti.vas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	captive /kap.tiv/	—	captivons /kap.ti.vɔ̃/	captivez /kap.ti.ve/	—
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

• captif

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

captīver

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of captīvō