affronter

English

Etymology

affront +‎ -er

Noun

affronter (plural affronters)

1. Someone who affronts.

Translations

someone who affronts

• Portuguese: afrontador m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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 (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin *affrontāre (“to strike against”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.fʁɔ̃.te/

• Audio:

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Verb

affronter

1. to confront, face
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.

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Norman

Verb

affronter

1. (Jersey) to face; to confront