silhouetter

French

Etymology

silhouette +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.lwe.te/

Verb

silhouetter

1. (transitive) to silhouette, outline

Conjugation

Conjugation of silhouetter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	silhouetter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	silhouettant /si.lwɛ.tɑ̃/ or /si.lwe.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		silhouetté /si.lwɛ.te/ or /si.lwe.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	silhouette /si.lwɛt/	silhouettes /si.lwɛt/	silhouette /si.lwɛt/	silhouettons /si.lwɛ.tɔ̃/ or /si.lwe.tɔ̃/	silhouettez /si.lwɛ.te/ or /si.lwe.te/	silhouettent /si.lwɛt/
	imperfect	silhouettais /si.lwɛ.tɛ/ or /si.lwe.tɛ/	silhouettais /si.lwɛ.tɛ/ or /si.lwe.tɛ/	silhouettait /si.lwɛ.tɛ/ or /si.lwe.tɛ/	silhouettions /si.lwɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /si.lwe.tjɔ̃/	silhouettiez /si.lwɛ.tje/ or /si.lwe.tje/	silhouettaient /si.lwɛ.tɛ/ or /si.lwe.tɛ/
	past historic2	silhouettai /si.lwɛ.te/ or /si.lwe.te/	silhouettas /si.lwɛ.ta/ or /si.lwe.ta/	silhouetta /si.lwɛ.ta/ or /si.lwe.ta/	silhouettâmes /si.lwɛ.tam/ or /si.lwe.tam/	silhouettâtes /si.lwɛ.tat/ or /si.lwe.tat/	silhouettèrent /si.lwɛ.tɛʁ/ or /si.lwe.tɛʁ/
	future	silhouetterai /si.lwɛ.tʁe/ or /si.lwe.tʁe/	silhouetteras /si.lwɛ.tʁa/ or /si.lwe.tʁa/	silhouettera /si.lwɛ.tʁa/ or /si.lwe.tʁa/	silhouetterons /si.lwɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /si.lwe.tʁɔ̃/	silhouetterez /si.lwɛ.tʁe/ or /si.lwe.tʁe/	silhouetteront /si.lwɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /si.lwe.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	silhouetterais /si.lwɛ.tʁɛ/ or /si.lwe.tʁɛ/	silhouetterais /si.lwɛ.tʁɛ/ or /si.lwe.tʁɛ/	silhouetterait /si.lwɛ.tʁɛ/ or /si.lwe.tʁɛ/	silhouetterions /si.lwɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /si.lwe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	silhouetteriez /si.lwɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /si.lwe.tə.ʁje/	silhouetteraient /si.lwɛ.tʁɛ/ or /si.lwe.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	silhouette /si.lwɛt/	silhouettes /si.lwɛt/	silhouette /si.lwɛt/	silhouettions /si.lwɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /si.lwe.tjɔ̃/	silhouettiez /si.lwɛ.tje/ or /si.lwe.tje/	silhouettent /si.lwɛt/
	imperfect2	silhouettasse /si.lwɛ.tas/ or /si.lwe.tas/	silhouettasses /si.lwɛ.tas/ or /si.lwe.tas/	silhouettât /si.lwɛ.ta/ or /si.lwe.ta/	silhouettassions /si.lwɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /si.lwe.ta.sjɔ̃/	silhouettassiez /si.lwɛ.ta.sje/ or /si.lwe.ta.sje/	silhouettassent /si.lwɛ.tas/ or /si.lwe.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	silhouette /si.lwɛt/	—	silhouettons /si.lwɛ.tɔ̃/ or /si.lwe.tɔ̃/	silhouettez /si.lwɛ.te/ or /si.lwe.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

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