insupporter

French

Etymology

Back-formation from insupportable (“unbearable”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.te/

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Verb

insupporter

1. (transitive, informal) to get on someone's nerves, to drive someone crazy

   Synonyms: agacer, exaspérer, excéder, taper sur les nerfs, taper sur le système

   Ça m'insupporte. ― it gets on my nerves.

Conjugation

Conjugation of insupporter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	insupporter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	insupportant /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		insupporté /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	insupporte /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁt/	insupportes /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁt/	insupporte /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁt/	insupportons /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/	insupportez /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.te/	insupportent /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁt/
	imperfect	insupportais /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tɛ/	insupportais /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tɛ/	insupportait /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tɛ/	insupportions /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/	insupportiez /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tje/	insupportaient /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tɛ/
	past historic2	insupportai /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.te/	insupportas /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.ta/	insupporta /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.ta/	insupportâmes /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tam/	insupportâtes /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tat/	insupportèrent /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/
	future	insupporterai /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/	insupporteras /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/	insupportera /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/	insupporterons /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/	insupporterez /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/	insupporteront /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	insupporterais /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	insupporterais /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	insupporterait /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	insupporterions /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	insupporteriez /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁje/	insupporteraient /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.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	insupporte /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁt/	insupportes /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁt/	insupporte /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁt/	insupportions /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/	insupportiez /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tje/	insupportent /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁt/
	imperfect2	insupportasse /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tas/	insupportasses /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tas/	insupportât /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.ta/	insupportassions /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/	insupportassiez /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.ta.sje/	insupportassent /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	insupporte /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁt/	—	insupportons /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/	insupportez /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.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

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