saupoudrer

French

Etymology

From sel + poudrer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /so.pu.dʁe/

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Verb

saupoudrer (transitive)

1. to salt
2. to sprinkle powder (onto)
3. (figurative) to sprinkle (onto)
   • 2023 August 8, Alexis Buisson, “À Sarasota, la guerre contre le « wokisme » vire au « fascisme » [At Sarasota, the war against "wokism" drifts towards "fascism"]”, in Mediapart‎^[1]:

     Il a saupoudré le tout d’une dose de flicage.

     He has sprinkled it all with a dose of surveillance.

Conjugation

Conjugation of saupoudrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	saupoudrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	saupoudrant /so.pu.dʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		saupoudré /so.pu.dʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	saupoudre /so.pudʁ/	saupoudres /so.pudʁ/	saupoudre /so.pudʁ/	saupoudrons /so.pu.dʁɔ̃/	saupoudrez /so.pu.dʁe/	saupoudrent /so.pudʁ/
	imperfect	saupoudrais /so.pu.dʁɛ/	saupoudrais /so.pu.dʁɛ/	saupoudrait /so.pu.dʁɛ/	saupoudrions /so.pu.dʁi.jɔ̃/	saupoudriez /so.pu.dʁi.je/	saupoudraient /so.pu.dʁɛ/
	past historic2	saupoudrai /so.pu.dʁe/	saupoudras /so.pu.dʁa/	saupoudra /so.pu.dʁa/	saupoudrâmes /so.pu.dʁam/	saupoudrâtes /so.pu.dʁat/	saupoudrèrent /so.pu.dʁɛʁ/
	future	saupoudrerai /so.pu.dʁə.ʁe/	saupoudreras /so.pu.dʁə.ʁa/	saupoudrera /so.pu.dʁə.ʁa/	saupoudrerons /so.pu.dʁə.ʁɔ̃/	saupoudrerez /so.pu.dʁə.ʁe/	saupoudreront /so.pu.dʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	saupoudrerais /so.pu.dʁə.ʁɛ/	saupoudrerais /so.pu.dʁə.ʁɛ/	saupoudrerait /so.pu.dʁə.ʁɛ/	saupoudrerions /so.pu.dʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	saupoudreriez /so.pu.dʁə.ʁje/	saupoudreraient /so.pu.dʁə.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	saupoudre /so.pudʁ/	saupoudres /so.pudʁ/	saupoudre /so.pudʁ/	saupoudrions /so.pu.dʁi.jɔ̃/	saupoudriez /so.pu.dʁi.je/	saupoudrent /so.pudʁ/
	imperfect2	saupoudrasse /so.pu.dʁas/	saupoudrasses /so.pu.dʁas/	saupoudrât /so.pu.dʁa/	saupoudrassions /so.pu.dʁa.sjɔ̃/	saupoudrassiez /so.pu.dʁa.sje/	saupoudrassent /so.pu.dʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	saupoudre /so.pudʁ/	—	saupoudrons /so.pu.dʁɔ̃/	saupoudrez /so.pu.dʁe/	—
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

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