sucer
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French sucer, sucher, succer, from Old French sucer, from Vulgar Latin *sūctiāre, derived from the supine stem sūctum of Latin sūgō (“to suck”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewg-, *sewk- (“to suck”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
sucer
- to suck
- Elle suçait un bonbon. ― She was sucking a sweet.
- (slang, vulgar) to give head, to suck off
- Elle suce trop bien. ― She gives great head.
- 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 86:
- Or c’était l’heure où les créatifs se font sucer. En passant par le bois de Boulogne, tu t’arrêtes pour acheter une fellation sans capote. Vingt minutes après, tu es de retour à l’agence.
- It was the time of day when the creatives go to get sucked off. Going through the Bois de Boulogne, you stop to pay for a blow job without a condom. Twenty minutes later, you're back at the agency.
Conjugation edit
This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.
Conjugation of sucer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | sucer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | suçant /sy.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | sucé /sy.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | suce /sys/ |
suces /sys/ |
suce /sys/ |
suçons /sy.sɔ̃/ |
sucez /sy.se/ |
sucent /sys/ |
| imperfect | suçais /sy.sɛ/ |
suçais /sy.sɛ/ |
suçait /sy.sɛ/ |
sucions /sy.sjɔ̃/ |
suciez /sy.sje/ |
suçaient /sy.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | suçai /sy.se/ |
suças /sy.sa/ |
suça /sy.sa/ |
suçâmes /sy.sam/ |
suçâtes /sy.sat/ |
sucèrent /sy.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | sucerai /sy.sʁe/ |
suceras /sy.sʁa/ |
sucera /sy.sʁa/ |
sucerons /sy.sʁɔ̃/ |
sucerez /sy.sʁe/ |
suceront /sy.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | sucerais /sy.sʁɛ/ |
sucerais /sy.sʁɛ/ |
sucerait /sy.sʁɛ/ |
sucerions /sy.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
suceriez /sy.sə.ʁje/ |
suceraient /sy.sʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | suce /sys/ |
suces /sys/ |
suce /sys/ |
sucions /sy.sjɔ̃/ |
suciez /sy.sje/ |
sucent /sys/ |
| imperfect2 | suçasse /sy.sas/ |
suçasses /sy.sas/ |
suçât /sy.sa/ |
suçassions /sy.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
suçassiez /sy.sa.sje/ |
suçassent /sy.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | suce /sys/ |
— | suçons /sy.sɔ̃/ |
sucez /sy.se/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Haitian Creole: souse
Further reading edit
- “sucer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.