sous-entendre

French

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Etymology

From sous- +‎ entendre.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃dʁ/
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Verb

sous-entendre

(transitive) to imply

Conjugation

Conjugation of sous-entendre (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	sous-entendre
present participle or gerund¹	simple	sous-entendant /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sous-entendu /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dy/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sous-entends /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃/	sous-entends /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃/	sous-entend /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃/	sous-entendons /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɔ̃/	sous-entendez /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.de/	sous-entendent /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃d/
	imperfect	sous-entendais /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɛ/	sous-entendais /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɛ/	sous-entendait /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɛ/	sous-entendions /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.djɔ̃/	sous-entendiez /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dje/	sous-entendaient /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɛ/
	past historic²	sous-entendis /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.di/	sous-entendis /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.di/	sous-entendit /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.di/	sous-entendîmes /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dim/	sous-entendîtes /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dit/	sous-entendirent /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.diʁ/
	future	sous-entendrai /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁe/	sous-entendras /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁa/	sous-entendra /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁa/	sous-entendrons /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/	sous-entendrez /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁe/	sous-entendront /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sous-entendrais /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/	sous-entendrais /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/	sous-entendrait /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/	sous-entendrions /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	sous-entendriez /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁi.je/	sous-entendraient /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	sous-entende /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃d/	sous-entendes /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃d/	sous-entende /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃d/	sous-entendions /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.djɔ̃/	sous-entendiez /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dje/	sous-entendent /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃d/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	sous-entendisse /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dis/	sous-entendisses /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dis/	sous-entendît /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.di/	sous-entendissions /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.di.sjɔ̃/	sous-entendissiez /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.di.sje/	sous-entendissent /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dis/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	sous-entends /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃/	—	sous-entendons /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.dɔ̃/	sous-entendez /su.zɑ̃.tɑ̃.de/	—
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).