invectiver

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

invectiver

1. (transitive) to insult, shout abuse (at)

Conjugation

Conjugation of invectiver (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	invectiver
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	invectivant /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		invectivé /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.ve/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	invective /ɛ̃.vɛk.tiv/	invectives /ɛ̃.vɛk.tiv/	invective /ɛ̃.vɛk.tiv/	invectivons /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vɔ̃/	invectivez /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.ve/	invectivent /ɛ̃.vɛk.tiv/
	imperfect	invectivais /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vɛ/	invectivais /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vɛ/	invectivait /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vɛ/	invectivions /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vjɔ̃/	invectiviez /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vje/	invectivaient /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vɛ/
	past historic2	invectivai /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.ve/	invectivas /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.va/	invectiva /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.va/	invectivâmes /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vam/	invectivâtes /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vat/	invectivèrent /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vɛʁ/
	future	invectiverai /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vʁe/	invectiveras /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vʁa/	invectivera /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vʁa/	invectiverons /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vʁɔ̃/	invectiverez /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vʁe/	invectiveront /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vʁɔ̃/
	conditional	invectiverais /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vʁɛ/	invectiverais /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vʁɛ/	invectiverait /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vʁɛ/	invectiverions /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.və.ʁjɔ̃/	invectiveriez /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.və.ʁje/	invectiveraient /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vʁɛ/
(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	invective /ɛ̃.vɛk.tiv/	invectives /ɛ̃.vɛk.tiv/	invective /ɛ̃.vɛk.tiv/	invectivions /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vjɔ̃/	invectiviez /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vje/	invectivent /ɛ̃.vɛk.tiv/
	imperfect2	invectivasse /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vas/	invectivasses /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vas/	invectivât /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.va/	invectivassions /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.va.sjɔ̃/	invectivassiez /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.va.sje/	invectivassent /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	invective /ɛ̃.vɛk.tiv/	—	invectivons /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.vɔ̃/	invectivez /ɛ̃.vɛk.ti.ve/	—
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

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