suspecter

English

Noun

suspecter (plural suspecters)

1. Alternative spelling of suspector

French

Etymology

From Latin suspectāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sys.pɛk.te/

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Verb

suspecter

1. (transitive) to suspect

Conjugation

Conjugation of suspecter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	suspecter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	suspectant /sys.pɛk.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		suspecté /sys.pɛk.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	suspecte /sys.pɛkt/	suspectes /sys.pɛkt/	suspecte /sys.pɛkt/	suspectons /sys.pɛk.tɔ̃/	suspectez /sys.pɛk.te/	suspectent /sys.pɛkt/
	imperfect	suspectais /sys.pɛk.tɛ/	suspectais /sys.pɛk.tɛ/	suspectait /sys.pɛk.tɛ/	suspections /sys.pɛk.tjɔ̃/	suspectiez /sys.pɛk.tje/	suspectaient /sys.pɛk.tɛ/
	past historic2	suspectai /sys.pɛk.te/	suspectas /sys.pɛk.ta/	suspecta /sys.pɛk.ta/	suspectâmes /sys.pɛk.tam/	suspectâtes /sys.pɛk.tat/	suspectèrent /sys.pɛk.tɛʁ/
	future	suspecterai /sys.pɛk.tə.ʁe/	suspecteras /sys.pɛk.tə.ʁa/	suspectera /sys.pɛk.tə.ʁa/	suspecterons /sys.pɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/	suspecterez /sys.pɛk.tə.ʁe/	suspecteront /sys.pɛk.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	suspecterais /sys.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	suspecterais /sys.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	suspecterait /sys.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/	suspecterions /sys.pɛk.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	suspecteriez /sys.pɛk.tə.ʁje/	suspecteraient /sys.pɛk.tə.ʁɛ/
(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	suspecte /sys.pɛkt/	suspectes /sys.pɛkt/	suspecte /sys.pɛkt/	suspections /sys.pɛk.tjɔ̃/	suspectiez /sys.pɛk.tje/	suspectent /sys.pɛkt/
	imperfect2	suspectasse /sys.pɛk.tas/	suspectasses /sys.pɛk.tas/	suspectât /sys.pɛk.ta/	suspectassions /sys.pɛk.ta.sjɔ̃/	suspectassiez /sys.pɛk.ta.sje/	suspectassent /sys.pɛk.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	suspecte /sys.pɛkt/	—	suspectons /sys.pɛk.tɔ̃/	suspectez /sys.pɛk.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

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