soutirer

French

Etymology

From sou- +‎ tirer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.ti.ʁe/

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Verb

soutirer

1. (transitive) to rack (beer or wine)

Conjugation

Conjugation of soutirer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	soutirer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	soutirant /su.ti.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		soutiré /su.ti.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	soutire /su.tiʁ/	soutires /su.tiʁ/	soutire /su.tiʁ/	soutirons /su.ti.ʁɔ̃/	soutirez /su.ti.ʁe/	soutirent /su.tiʁ/
	imperfect	soutirais /su.ti.ʁɛ/	soutirais /su.ti.ʁɛ/	soutirait /su.ti.ʁɛ/	soutirions /su.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	soutiriez /su.ti.ʁje/	soutiraient /su.ti.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	soutirai /su.ti.ʁe/	soutiras /su.ti.ʁa/	soutira /su.ti.ʁa/	soutirâmes /su.ti.ʁam/	soutirâtes /su.ti.ʁat/	soutirèrent /su.ti.ʁɛʁ/
	future	soutirerai /su.ti.ʁə.ʁe/	soutireras /su.ti.ʁə.ʁa/	soutirera /su.ti.ʁə.ʁa/	soutirerons /su.ti.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	soutirerez /su.ti.ʁə.ʁe/	soutireront /su.ti.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	soutirerais /su.ti.ʁə.ʁɛ/	soutirerais /su.ti.ʁə.ʁɛ/	soutirerait /su.ti.ʁə.ʁɛ/	soutirerions /su.ti.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	soutireriez /su.ti.ʁə.ʁje/	soutireraient /su.ti.ʁə.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	soutire /su.tiʁ/	soutires /su.tiʁ/	soutire /su.tiʁ/	soutirions /su.ti.ʁjɔ̃/	soutiriez /su.ti.ʁje/	soutirent /su.tiʁ/
	imperfect2	soutirasse /su.ti.ʁas/	soutirasses /su.ti.ʁas/	soutirât /su.ti.ʁa/	soutirassions /su.ti.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	soutirassiez /su.ti.ʁa.sje/	soutirassent /su.ti.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	soutire /su.tiʁ/	—	soutirons /su.ti.ʁɔ̃/	soutirez /su.ti.ʁe/	—
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

• soutirage

Further reading

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