suppléer

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French souploier, soupleer, borrowed from Latin supplere.

Pronunciation

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Verb

suppléer

1. to supply
2. to replace

Conjugation

Conjugation of suppléer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	suppléer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	suppléant /sy.ple.ɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		suppléé /sy.ple.e/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	supplée /sy.ple/	supplées /sy.ple/	supplée /sy.ple/	suppléons /sy.ple.ɔ̃/	suppléez /sy.ple.e/	suppléent /sy.ple/
	imperfect	suppléais /sy.ple.ɛ/	suppléais /sy.ple.ɛ/	suppléait /sy.ple.ɛ/	suppléions /sy.plej.jɔ̃/ or /sy.plɛj.jɔ̃/	suppléiez /sy.plej.je/ or /sy.plɛj.je/	suppléaient /sy.ple.ɛ/
	past historic2	suppléai /sy.ple.e/	suppléas /sy.ple.a/	suppléa /sy.ple.a/	suppléâmes /sy.ple.am/	suppléâtes /sy.ple.at/	suppléèrent /sy.ple.ɛʁ/
	future	suppléerai /sy.ple.ʁe/	suppléeras /sy.ple.ʁa/	suppléera /sy.ple.ʁa/	suppléerons /sy.ple.ʁɔ̃/	suppléerez /sy.ple.ʁe/	suppléeront /sy.ple.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	suppléerais /sy.ple.ʁɛ/	suppléerais /sy.ple.ʁɛ/	suppléerait /sy.ple.ʁɛ/	suppléerions /sy.ple.ʁjɔ̃/	suppléeriez /sy.ple.ʁje/	suppléeraient /sy.ple.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	supplée /sy.ple/	supplées /sy.ple/	supplée /sy.ple/	suppléions /sy.plej.jɔ̃/ or /sy.plɛj.jɔ̃/	suppléiez /sy.plej.je/ or /sy.plɛj.je/	suppléent /sy.ple/
	imperfect2	suppléasse /sy.ple.as/	suppléasses /sy.ple.as/	suppléât /sy.ple.a/	suppléassions /sy.ple.a.sjɔ̃/	suppléassiez /sy.ple.a.sje/	suppléassent /sy.ple.as/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	supplée /sy.ple/	—	suppléons /sy.ple.ɔ̃/	suppléez /sy.ple.e/	—
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

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