souffleter

French

Etymology

From soufflet +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su.flə.te/

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Verb

souffleter

1. to slap (across the face)

   Synonym: gifler

Conjugation

With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.

Conjugation of souffleter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	souffleter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	souffletant /su.flə.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		souffleté /su.flə.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	soufflette or soufflète /su.flɛt/	soufflettes or soufflètes /su.flɛt/	soufflette or soufflète /su.flɛt/	souffletons /su.flə.tɔ̃/	souffletez /su.flə.te/	soufflettent or soufflètent /su.flɛt/
	imperfect	souffletais /su.flə.tɛ/	souffletais /su.flə.tɛ/	souffletait /su.flə.tɛ/	souffletions /su.flə.tjɔ̃/	souffletiez /su.flə.tje/	souffletaient /su.flə.tɛ/
	past historic2	souffletai /su.flə.te/	souffletas /su.flə.ta/	souffleta /su.flə.ta/	souffletâmes /su.flə.tam/	souffletâtes /su.flə.tat/	souffletèrent /su.flə.tɛʁ/
	future	souffletterai or soufflèterai /su.flɛ.tʁe/ or /su.fle.tʁe/	souffletteras or soufflèteras /su.flɛ.tʁa/ or /su.fle.tʁa/	soufflettera or soufflètera /su.flɛ.tʁa/ or /su.fle.tʁa/	souffletterons or soufflèterons /su.flɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /su.fle.tʁɔ̃/	souffletterez or soufflèterez /su.flɛ.tʁe/ or /su.fle.tʁe/	souffletteront or soufflèteront /su.flɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /su.fle.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	souffletterais or soufflèterais /su.flɛ.tʁɛ/ or /su.fle.tʁɛ/	souffletterais or soufflèterais /su.flɛ.tʁɛ/ or /su.fle.tʁɛ/	souffletterait or soufflèterait /su.flɛ.tʁɛ/ or /su.fle.tʁɛ/	souffletterions or soufflèterions /su.flɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /su.fle.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	souffletteriez or soufflèteriez /su.flɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /su.fle.tə.ʁje/	souffletteraient or soufflèteraient /su.flɛ.tʁɛ/ or /su.fle.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	soufflette or soufflète /su.flɛt/	soufflettes or soufflètes /su.flɛt/	soufflette or soufflète /su.flɛt/	souffletions /su.flə.tjɔ̃/	souffletiez /su.flə.tje/	soufflettent or soufflètent /su.flɛt/
	imperfect2	souffletasse /su.flə.tas/	souffletasses /su.flə.tas/	souffletât /su.flə.ta/	souffletassions /su.flə.ta.sjɔ̃/	souffletassiez /su.flə.ta.sje/	souffletassent /su.flə.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	soufflette or soufflète /su.flɛt/	—	souffletons /su.flə.tɔ̃/	souffletez /su.flə.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

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