feutrer

French

Etymology

From feutre +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fø.tʁe/

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Verb

feutrer

1. (transitive) to felt
2. (transitive) to muffle

Conjugation

Conjugation of feutrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	feutrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	feutrant /fø.tʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		feutré /fø.tʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	feutre /føtʁ/	feutres /føtʁ/	feutre /føtʁ/	feutrons /fø.tʁɔ̃/	feutrez /fø.tʁe/	feutrent /føtʁ/
	imperfect	feutrais /fø.tʁɛ/	feutrais /fø.tʁɛ/	feutrait /fø.tʁɛ/	feutrions /fø.tʁi.jɔ̃/	feutriez /fø.tʁi.je/	feutraient /fø.tʁɛ/
	past historic2	feutrai /fø.tʁe/	feutras /fø.tʁa/	feutra /fø.tʁa/	feutrâmes /fø.tʁam/	feutrâtes /fø.tʁat/	feutrèrent /fø.tʁɛʁ/
	future	feutrerai /fø.tʁə.ʁe/	feutreras /fø.tʁə.ʁa/	feutrera /fø.tʁə.ʁa/	feutrerons /fø.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/	feutrerez /fø.tʁə.ʁe/	feutreront /fø.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	feutrerais /fø.tʁə.ʁɛ/	feutrerais /fø.tʁə.ʁɛ/	feutrerait /fø.tʁə.ʁɛ/	feutrerions /fø.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	feutreriez /fø.tʁə.ʁje/	feutreraient /fø.tʁə.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	feutre /føtʁ/	feutres /føtʁ/	feutre /føtʁ/	feutrions /fø.tʁi.jɔ̃/	feutriez /fø.tʁi.je/	feutrent /føtʁ/
	imperfect2	feutrasse /fø.tʁas/	feutrasses /fø.tʁas/	feutrât /fø.tʁa/	feutrassions /fø.tʁa.sjɔ̃/	feutrassiez /fø.tʁa.sje/	feutrassent /fø.tʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	feutre /føtʁ/	—	feutrons /fø.tʁɔ̃/	feutrez /fø.tʁe/	—
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).

Derived terms

• feutrage
• antifeutrant

Further reading

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