irriter

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin irrītāre. Compare Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish irritar, Italian irritare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ʁi.te/

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Verb

irriter

1. to annoy, to irritate

Conjugation

Conjugation of irriter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	irriter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	irritant /i.ʁi.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		irrité /i.ʁi.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	irrite /i.ʁit/	irrites /i.ʁit/	irrite /i.ʁit/	irritons /i.ʁi.tɔ̃/	irritez /i.ʁi.te/	irritent /i.ʁit/
	imperfect	irritais /i.ʁi.tɛ/	irritais /i.ʁi.tɛ/	irritait /i.ʁi.tɛ/	irritions /i.ʁi.tjɔ̃/	irritiez /i.ʁi.tje/	irritaient /i.ʁi.tɛ/
	past historic2	irritai /i.ʁi.te/	irritas /i.ʁi.ta/	irrita /i.ʁi.ta/	irritâmes /i.ʁi.tam/	irritâtes /i.ʁi.tat/	irritèrent /i.ʁi.tɛʁ/
	future	irriterai /i.ʁi.tʁe/	irriteras /i.ʁi.tʁa/	irritera /i.ʁi.tʁa/	irriterons /i.ʁi.tʁɔ̃/	irriterez /i.ʁi.tʁe/	irriteront /i.ʁi.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	irriterais /i.ʁi.tʁɛ/	irriterais /i.ʁi.tʁɛ/	irriterait /i.ʁi.tʁɛ/	irriterions /i.ʁi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	irriteriez /i.ʁi.tə.ʁje/	irriteraient /i.ʁi.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	irrite /i.ʁit/	irrites /i.ʁit/	irrite /i.ʁit/	irritions /i.ʁi.tjɔ̃/	irritiez /i.ʁi.tje/	irritent /i.ʁit/
	imperfect2	irritasse /i.ʁi.tas/	irritasses /i.ʁi.tas/	irritât /i.ʁi.ta/	irritassions /i.ʁi.ta.sjɔ̃/	irritassiez /i.ʁi.ta.sje/	irritassent /i.ʁi.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	irrite /i.ʁit/	—	irritons /i.ʁi.tɔ̃/	irritez /i.ʁi.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).

Derived terms

• irrité

Related terms

• irritation

Descendants

• → Turkish: irite (via past participle)

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

irrīter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of irrītō

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

irriter

1. imperative of irritere