affronter

English

Etymology

affront +‎ -er

Noun

affronter (plural affronters)

1. Someone who affronts.
2. One who receives an affront.
   • 1833, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, England and the English:

     the affront given, out at once go affronter and affrontee

Translations

someone who affronts

• Portuguese: afrontador m

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French afronter (“to face; to confront; to slap in the face”), either a French derivation a- +‎ front +‎ -er, or an inheritance from an unattested Vulgar Latin *affrontāre (“to strike against”), from Latin ad + frontem. Compare Italian affrontare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.fʁɔ̃.te/

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Verb

affronter

1. to confront, face
   • 2018, Zaz, Résigne-moi:

     Je rêve de plus me juger, car la vie me montre ce que je dois affronter.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (reflexive) to face off, to clash

Conjugation

Conjugation of affronter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	affronter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	affrontant /a.fʁɔ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		affronté /a.fʁɔ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	affronte /a.fʁɔ̃t/	affrontes /a.fʁɔ̃t/	affronte /a.fʁɔ̃t/	affrontons /a.fʁɔ̃.tɔ̃/	affrontez /a.fʁɔ̃.te/	affrontent /a.fʁɔ̃t/
	imperfect	affrontais /a.fʁɔ̃.tɛ/	affrontais /a.fʁɔ̃.tɛ/	affrontait /a.fʁɔ̃.tɛ/	affrontions /a.fʁɔ̃.tjɔ̃/	affrontiez /a.fʁɔ̃.tje/	affrontaient /a.fʁɔ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	affrontai /a.fʁɔ̃.te/	affrontas /a.fʁɔ̃.ta/	affronta /a.fʁɔ̃.ta/	affrontâmes /a.fʁɔ̃.tam/	affrontâtes /a.fʁɔ̃.tat/	affrontèrent /a.fʁɔ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	affronterai /a.fʁɔ̃.tʁe/	affronteras /a.fʁɔ̃.tʁa/	affrontera /a.fʁɔ̃.tʁa/	affronterons /a.fʁɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/	affronterez /a.fʁɔ̃.tʁe/	affronteront /a.fʁɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	affronterais /a.fʁɔ̃.tʁɛ/	affronterais /a.fʁɔ̃.tʁɛ/	affronterait /a.fʁɔ̃.tʁɛ/	affronterions /a.fʁɔ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	affronteriez /a.fʁɔ̃.tə.ʁje/	affronteraient /a.fʁɔ̃.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	affronte /a.fʁɔ̃t/	affrontes /a.fʁɔ̃t/	affronte /a.fʁɔ̃t/	affrontions /a.fʁɔ̃.tjɔ̃/	affrontiez /a.fʁɔ̃.tje/	affrontent /a.fʁɔ̃t/
	imperfect2	affrontasse /a.fʁɔ̃.tas/	affrontasses /a.fʁɔ̃.tas/	affrontât /a.fʁɔ̃.ta/	affrontassions /a.fʁɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	affrontassiez /a.fʁɔ̃.ta.sje/	affrontassent /a.fʁɔ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	affronte /a.fʁɔ̃t/	—	affrontons /a.fʁɔ̃.tɔ̃/	affrontez /a.fʁɔ̃.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).

Synonyms

• faire face

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

From Old French afronter (“to face; to confront; to slap in the face”), either a derivation a- +‎ front +‎ -er, or an inheritance from an unattested Vulgar Latin *affrontāre (“to strike against”), from Latin ad + frontem.

Verb

affronter

1. (Jersey) to face; to confront