souffler
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French sofler, from Latin sufflāre.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
souffler
- to blow
- to blow out
- Souffler des bougies. ― Blow out candles.
- to whisper
- (figuratively) to relax
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of souffler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | souffler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | soufflant /su.flɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | soufflé /su.fle/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | souffle /sufl/ |
souffles /sufl/ |
souffle /sufl/ |
soufflons /su.flɔ̃/ |
soufflez /su.fle/ |
soufflent /sufl/ |
| imperfect | soufflais /su.flɛ/ |
soufflais /su.flɛ/ |
soufflait /su.flɛ/ |
soufflions /su.fli.jɔ̃/ |
souffliez /su.fli.je/ |
soufflaient /su.flɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | soufflai /su.fle/ |
soufflas /su.fla/ |
souffla /su.fla/ |
soufflâmes /su.flam/ |
soufflâtes /su.flat/ |
soufflèrent /su.flɛʁ/ | |
| future | soufflerai /su.flə.ʁe/ |
souffleras /su.flə.ʁa/ |
soufflera /su.flə.ʁa/ |
soufflerons /su.flə.ʁɔ̃/ |
soufflerez /su.flə.ʁe/ |
souffleront /su.flə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | soufflerais /su.flə.ʁɛ/ |
soufflerais /su.flə.ʁɛ/ |
soufflerait /su.flə.ʁɛ/ |
soufflerions /su.flə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
souffleriez /su.flə.ʁje/ |
souffleraient /su.flə.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 | souffle /sufl/ |
souffles /sufl/ |
souffle /sufl/ |
soufflions /su.fli.jɔ̃/ |
souffliez /su.fli.je/ |
soufflent /sufl/ |
| imperfect2 | soufflasse /su.flas/ |
soufflasses /su.flas/ |
soufflât /su.fla/ |
soufflassions /su.fla.sjɔ̃/ |
soufflassiez /su.fla.sje/ |
soufflassent /su.flas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | souffle /sufl/ |
— | soufflons /su.flɔ̃/ |
soufflez /su.fle/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “souffler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.