affuter

See also: affûter

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

affuter

1. post-1990 spelling of affûter

Conjugation

Conjugation of affuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	affuter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	affutant /a.fy.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		affuté /a.fy.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	affute /a.fyt/	affutes /a.fyt/	affute /a.fyt/	affutons /a.fy.tɔ̃/	affutez /a.fy.te/	affutent /a.fyt/
	imperfect	affutais /a.fy.tɛ/	affutais /a.fy.tɛ/	affutait /a.fy.tɛ/	affutions /a.fy.tjɔ̃/	affutiez /a.fy.tje/	affutaient /a.fy.tɛ/
	past historic2	affutai /a.fy.te/	affutas /a.fy.ta/	affuta /a.fy.ta/	affutâmes /a.fy.tam/	affutâtes /a.fy.tat/	affutèrent /a.fy.tɛʁ/
	future	affuterai /a.fy.tʁe/	affuteras /a.fy.tʁa/	affutera /a.fy.tʁa/	affuterons /a.fy.tʁɔ̃/	affuterez /a.fy.tʁe/	affuteront /a.fy.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	affuterais /a.fy.tʁɛ/	affuterais /a.fy.tʁɛ/	affuterait /a.fy.tʁɛ/	affuterions /a.fy.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	affuteriez /a.fy.tə.ʁje/	affuteraient /a.fy.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	affute /a.fyt/	affutes /a.fyt/	affute /a.fyt/	affutions /a.fy.tjɔ̃/	affutiez /a.fy.tje/	affutent /a.fyt/
	imperfect2	affutasse /a.fy.tas/	affutasses /a.fy.tas/	affutât /a.fy.ta/	affutassions /a.fy.ta.sjɔ̃/	affutassiez /a.fy.ta.sje/	affutassent /a.fy.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	affute /a.fyt/	—	affutons /a.fy.tɔ̃/	affutez /a.fy.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

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