soupçonner

French

Etymology

From soupçon +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sup.sɔ.ne/

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Verb

soupçonner

1. to suspect (have a suspicion)

Conjugation

Conjugation of soupçonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	soupçonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	soupçonnant /sup.sɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		soupçonné /sup.sɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	soupçonne /sup.sɔn/	soupçonnes /sup.sɔn/	soupçonne /sup.sɔn/	soupçonnons /sup.sɔ.nɔ̃/	soupçonnez /sup.sɔ.ne/	soupçonnent /sup.sɔn/
	imperfect	soupçonnais /sup.sɔ.nɛ/	soupçonnais /sup.sɔ.nɛ/	soupçonnait /sup.sɔ.nɛ/	soupçonnions /sup.sɔ.njɔ̃/	soupçonniez /sup.sɔ.nje/	soupçonnaient /sup.sɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	soupçonnai /sup.sɔ.ne/	soupçonnas /sup.sɔ.na/	soupçonna /sup.sɔ.na/	soupçonnâmes /sup.sɔ.nam/	soupçonnâtes /sup.sɔ.nat/	soupçonnèrent /sup.sɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	soupçonnerai /sup.sɔn.ʁe/	soupçonneras /sup.sɔn.ʁa/	soupçonnera /sup.sɔn.ʁa/	soupçonnerons /sup.sɔn.ʁɔ̃/	soupçonnerez /sup.sɔn.ʁe/	soupçonneront /sup.sɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	soupçonnerais /sup.sɔn.ʁɛ/	soupçonnerais /sup.sɔn.ʁɛ/	soupçonnerait /sup.sɔn.ʁɛ/	soupçonnerions /sup.sɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	soupçonneriez /sup.sɔ.nə.ʁje/	soupçonneraient /sup.sɔn.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	soupçonne /sup.sɔn/	soupçonnes /sup.sɔn/	soupçonne /sup.sɔn/	soupçonnions /sup.sɔ.njɔ̃/	soupçonniez /sup.sɔ.nje/	soupçonnent /sup.sɔn/
	imperfect2	soupçonnasse /sup.sɔ.nas/	soupçonnasses /sup.sɔ.nas/	soupçonnât /sup.sɔ.na/	soupçonnassions /sup.sɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	soupçonnassiez /sup.sɔ.na.sje/	soupçonnassent /sup.sɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	soupçonne /sup.sɔn/	—	soupçonnons /sup.sɔ.nɔ̃/	soupçonnez /sup.sɔ.ne/	—
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).

Derived terms

• insoupçonné

Further reading

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