suffoquer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin suffōcāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sy.fɔ.ke/
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Verb
suffoquer
- (ambitransitive) to suffocate
Conjugation
Conjugation of suffoquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | suffoquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | suffoquant /sy.fɔ.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | suffoqué /sy.fɔ.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | suffoque /sy.fɔk/ |
suffoques /sy.fɔk/ |
suffoque /sy.fɔk/ |
suffoquons /sy.fɔ.kɔ̃/ |
suffoquez /sy.fɔ.ke/ |
suffoquent /sy.fɔk/ |
| imperfect | suffoquais /sy.fɔ.kɛ/ |
suffoquais /sy.fɔ.kɛ/ |
suffoquait /sy.fɔ.kɛ/ |
suffoquions /sy.fɔ.kjɔ̃/ |
suffoquiez /sy.fɔ.kje/ |
suffoquaient /sy.fɔ.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | suffoquai /sy.fɔ.ke/ |
suffoquas /sy.fɔ.ka/ |
suffoqua /sy.fɔ.ka/ |
suffoquâmes /sy.fɔ.kam/ |
suffoquâtes /sy.fɔ.kat/ |
suffoquèrent /sy.fɔ.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | suffoquerai /sy.fɔ.kʁe/ |
suffoqueras /sy.fɔ.kʁa/ |
suffoquera /sy.fɔ.kʁa/ |
suffoquerons /sy.fɔ.kʁɔ̃/ |
suffoquerez /sy.fɔ.kʁe/ |
suffoqueront /sy.fɔ.kʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | suffoquerais /sy.fɔ.kʁɛ/ |
suffoquerais /sy.fɔ.kʁɛ/ |
suffoquerait /sy.fɔ.kʁɛ/ |
suffoquerions /sy.fɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
suffoqueriez /sy.fɔ.kə.ʁje/ |
suffoqueraient /sy.fɔ.kʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | suffoque /sy.fɔk/ |
suffoques /sy.fɔk/ |
suffoque /sy.fɔk/ |
suffoquions /sy.fɔ.kjɔ̃/ |
suffoquiez /sy.fɔ.kje/ |
suffoquent /sy.fɔk/ |
| imperfect2 | suffoquasse /sy.fɔ.kas/ |
suffoquasses /sy.fɔ.kas/ |
suffoquât /sy.fɔ.ka/ |
suffoquassions /sy.fɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
suffoquassiez /sy.fɔ.ka.sje/ |
suffoquassent /sy.fɔ.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | suffoque /sy.fɔk/ |
— | suffoquons /sy.fɔ.kɔ̃/ |
suffoquez /sy.fɔ.ke/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
See also
Further reading
- “suffoquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012