saturer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saturāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.ty.ʁe/

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Verb

saturer

1. to saturate

Conjugation

Conjugation of saturer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	saturer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	saturant /sa.ty.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		saturé /sa.ty.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sature /sa.tyʁ/	satures /sa.tyʁ/	sature /sa.tyʁ/	saturons /sa.ty.ʁɔ̃/	saturez /sa.ty.ʁe/	saturent /sa.tyʁ/
	imperfect	saturais /sa.ty.ʁɛ/	saturais /sa.ty.ʁɛ/	saturait /sa.ty.ʁɛ/	saturions /sa.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	saturiez /sa.ty.ʁje/	saturaient /sa.ty.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	saturai /sa.ty.ʁe/	saturas /sa.ty.ʁa/	satura /sa.ty.ʁa/	saturâmes /sa.ty.ʁam/	saturâtes /sa.ty.ʁat/	saturèrent /sa.ty.ʁɛʁ/
	future	saturerai /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	satureras /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	saturera /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁa/	saturerons /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	saturerez /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁe/	satureront /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	saturerais /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	saturerais /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	saturerait /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/	saturerions /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	satureriez /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁje/	satureraient /sa.ty.ʁə.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	sature /sa.tyʁ/	satures /sa.tyʁ/	sature /sa.tyʁ/	saturions /sa.ty.ʁjɔ̃/	saturiez /sa.ty.ʁje/	saturent /sa.tyʁ/
	imperfect2	saturasse /sa.ty.ʁas/	saturasses /sa.ty.ʁas/	saturât /sa.ty.ʁa/	saturassions /sa.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	saturassiez /sa.ty.ʁa.sje/	saturassent /sa.ty.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sature /sa.tyʁ/	—	saturons /sa.ty.ʁɔ̃/	saturez /sa.ty.ʁe/	—
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).

Related terms

• saturation

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

saturer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of saturō