susciter

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suscitāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.si.te/

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• Homophones: suscité, sus-cité

Verb

susciter

1. to stir up, fuel, evoke, suscitate

Conjugation

Conjugation of susciter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	susciter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	suscitant /sy.si.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		suscité /sy.si.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	suscite /sy.sit/	suscites /sy.sit/	suscite /sy.sit/	suscitons /sy.si.tɔ̃/	suscitez /sy.si.te/	suscitent /sy.sit/
	imperfect	suscitais /sy.si.tɛ/	suscitais /sy.si.tɛ/	suscitait /sy.si.tɛ/	suscitions /sy.si.tjɔ̃/	suscitiez /sy.si.tje/	suscitaient /sy.si.tɛ/
	past historic2	suscitai /sy.si.te/	suscitas /sy.si.ta/	suscita /sy.si.ta/	suscitâmes /sy.si.tam/	suscitâtes /sy.si.tat/	suscitèrent /sy.si.tɛʁ/
	future	susciterai /sy.si.tʁe/	susciteras /sy.si.tʁa/	suscitera /sy.si.tʁa/	susciterons /sy.si.tʁɔ̃/	susciterez /sy.si.tʁe/	susciteront /sy.si.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	susciterais /sy.si.tʁɛ/	susciterais /sy.si.tʁɛ/	susciterait /sy.si.tʁɛ/	susciterions /sy.si.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	susciteriez /sy.si.tə.ʁje/	susciteraient /sy.si.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	suscite /sy.sit/	suscites /sy.sit/	suscite /sy.sit/	suscitions /sy.si.tjɔ̃/	suscitiez /sy.si.tje/	suscitent /sy.sit/
	imperfect2	suscitasse /sy.si.tas/	suscitasses /sy.si.tas/	suscitât /sy.si.ta/	suscitassions /sy.si.ta.sjɔ̃/	suscitassiez /sy.si.ta.sje/	suscitassent /sy.si.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	suscite /sy.sit/	—	suscitons /sy.si.tɔ̃/	suscitez /sy.si.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

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsus.ki.ter/, [ˈs̠ʊs̠kɪt̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsuʃ.ʃi.ter/, [ˈsuʃːit̪er]

Verb

susciter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of suscitō