fienter

French

Etymology

Denominal of fiente

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fjɑ̃.te/

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Verb

fienter

1. to defecate, shit
   • Michel de Montaigne

     Les rois et les philosophes fientent, et les dames aussi.

     Kings and philosophers shit, and so do ladies.

Conjugation

Conjugation of fienter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fienter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fientant /fjɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fienté /fjɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fiente /fjɑ̃t/	fientes /fjɑ̃t/	fiente /fjɑ̃t/	fientons /fjɑ̃.tɔ̃/	fientez /fjɑ̃.te/	fientent /fjɑ̃t/
	imperfect	fientais /fjɑ̃.tɛ/	fientais /fjɑ̃.tɛ/	fientait /fjɑ̃.tɛ/	fientions /fjɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	fientiez /fjɑ̃.tje/	fientaient /fjɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	fientai /fjɑ̃.te/	fientas /fjɑ̃.ta/	fienta /fjɑ̃.ta/	fientâmes /fjɑ̃.tam/	fientâtes /fjɑ̃.tat/	fientèrent /fjɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	fienterai /fjɑ̃.tʁe/	fienteras /fjɑ̃.tʁa/	fientera /fjɑ̃.tʁa/	fienterons /fjɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	fienterez /fjɑ̃.tʁe/	fienteront /fjɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fienterais /fjɑ̃.tʁɛ/	fienterais /fjɑ̃.tʁɛ/	fienterait /fjɑ̃.tʁɛ/	fienterions /fjɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	fienteriez /fjɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	fienteraient /fjɑ̃.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	fiente /fjɑ̃t/	fientes /fjɑ̃t/	fiente /fjɑ̃t/	fientions /fjɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	fientiez /fjɑ̃.tje/	fientent /fjɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	fientasse /fjɑ̃.tas/	fientasses /fjɑ̃.tas/	fientât /fjɑ̃.ta/	fientassions /fjɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	fientassiez /fjɑ̃.ta.sje/	fientassent /fjɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fiente /fjɑ̃t/	—	fientons /fjɑ̃.tɔ̃/	fientez /fjɑ̃.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

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