offusquer
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin offuscāre (“to vilify, to degrade”) (infinitive offuscāre), from of- + fuscō (“to darken”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ɔ.fys.ke/
Audio (file) - Homophones: offusquai, offusqué, offusquée, offusquées, offusqués, offusquez
Verb edit
offusquer
- (transitive) to offend
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to be offended (by), to take offence (at) [+ de (something)]
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of offusquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | offusquer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | offusquant /ɔ.fys.kɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | offusqué /ɔ.fys.ke/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | offusque /ɔ.fysk/ |
offusques /ɔ.fysk/ |
offusque /ɔ.fysk/ |
offusquons /ɔ.fys.kɔ̃/ |
offusquez /ɔ.fys.ke/ |
offusquent /ɔ.fysk/ |
| imperfect | offusquais /ɔ.fys.kɛ/ |
offusquais /ɔ.fys.kɛ/ |
offusquait /ɔ.fys.kɛ/ |
offusquions /ɔ.fys.kjɔ̃/ |
offusquiez /ɔ.fys.kje/ |
offusquaient /ɔ.fys.kɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | offusquai /ɔ.fys.ke/ |
offusquas /ɔ.fys.ka/ |
offusqua /ɔ.fys.ka/ |
offusquâmes /ɔ.fys.kam/ |
offusquâtes /ɔ.fys.kat/ |
offusquèrent /ɔ.fys.kɛʁ/ | |
| future | offusquerai /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁe/ |
offusqueras /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁa/ |
offusquera /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁa/ |
offusquerons /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁɔ̃/ |
offusquerez /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁe/ |
offusqueront /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | offusquerais /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁɛ/ |
offusquerais /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁɛ/ |
offusquerait /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁɛ/ |
offusquerions /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
offusqueriez /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁje/ |
offusqueraient /ɔ.fys.kə.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 | offusque /ɔ.fysk/ |
offusques /ɔ.fysk/ |
offusque /ɔ.fysk/ |
offusquions /ɔ.fys.kjɔ̃/ |
offusquiez /ɔ.fys.kje/ |
offusquent /ɔ.fysk/ |
| imperfect2 | offusquasse /ɔ.fys.kas/ |
offusquasses /ɔ.fys.kas/ |
offusquât /ɔ.fys.ka/ |
offusquassions /ɔ.fys.ka.sjɔ̃/ |
offusquassiez /ɔ.fys.ka.sje/ |
offusquassent /ɔ.fys.kas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | offusque /ɔ.fysk/ |
— | offusquons /ɔ.fys.kɔ̃/ |
offusquez /ɔ.fys.ke/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “offusquer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.