susurrer
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin susurrāre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]susurrer
- (usually intransitive) to whisper (talk quietly)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of susurrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | susurrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | susurrant /sy.sy.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | susurré /sy.sy.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | susurre /sy.syʁ/ |
susurres /sy.syʁ/ |
susurre /sy.syʁ/ |
susurrons /sy.sy.ʁɔ̃/ |
susurrez /sy.sy.ʁe/ |
susurrent /sy.syʁ/ |
| imperfect | susurrais /sy.sy.ʁɛ/ |
susurrais /sy.sy.ʁɛ/ |
susurrait /sy.sy.ʁɛ/ |
susurrions /sy.sy.ʁjɔ̃/ |
susurriez /sy.sy.ʁje/ |
susurraient /sy.sy.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | susurrai /sy.sy.ʁe/ |
susurras /sy.sy.ʁa/ |
susurra /sy.sy.ʁa/ |
susurrâmes /sy.sy.ʁam/ |
susurrâtes /sy.sy.ʁat/ |
susurrèrent /sy.sy.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | susurrerai /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁe/ |
susurreras /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁa/ |
susurrera /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁa/ |
susurrerons /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
susurrerez /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁe/ |
susurreront /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | susurrerais /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
susurrerais /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
susurrerait /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
susurrerions /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
susurreriez /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁje/ |
susurreraient /sy.sy.ʁə.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 | susurre /sy.syʁ/ |
susurres /sy.syʁ/ |
susurre /sy.syʁ/ |
susurrions /sy.sy.ʁjɔ̃/ |
susurriez /sy.sy.ʁje/ |
susurrent /sy.syʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | susurrasse /sy.sy.ʁas/ |
susurrasses /sy.sy.ʁas/ |
susurrât /sy.sy.ʁa/ |
susurrassions /sy.sy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
susurrassiez /sy.sy.ʁa.sje/ |
susurrassent /sy.sy.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | susurre /sy.syʁ/ |
— | susurrons /sy.sy.ʁɔ̃/ |
susurrez /sy.sy.ʁe/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
[edit]- “susurrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]susurrer