suinter
French edit
Etymology edit
From suint.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
suinter
- (intransitive, also figurative) to ooze
- 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 3, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
- Un parallélépipède allongé en bord de fleuve qui suintait cette fausse chaleur des designers scandinaves, toute de vitre et de bois clair, où la convivialité se résumait à des ardoises sans craie posées sur des chevalets neufs, […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of suinter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | suinter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | suintant /sɥɛ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | suinté /sɥɛ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | suinte /sɥɛ̃t/ |
suintes /sɥɛ̃t/ |
suinte /sɥɛ̃t/ |
suintons /sɥɛ̃.tɔ̃/ |
suintez /sɥɛ̃.te/ |
suintent /sɥɛ̃t/ |
| imperfect | suintais /sɥɛ̃.tɛ/ |
suintais /sɥɛ̃.tɛ/ |
suintait /sɥɛ̃.tɛ/ |
suintions /sɥɛ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
suintiez /sɥɛ̃.tje/ |
suintaient /sɥɛ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | suintai /sɥɛ̃.te/ |
suintas /sɥɛ̃.ta/ |
suinta /sɥɛ̃.ta/ |
suintâmes /sɥɛ̃.tam/ |
suintâtes /sɥɛ̃.tat/ |
suintèrent /sɥɛ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | suinterai /sɥɛ̃.tʁe/ |
suinteras /sɥɛ̃.tʁa/ |
suintera /sɥɛ̃.tʁa/ |
suinterons /sɥɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
suinterez /sɥɛ̃.tʁe/ |
suinteront /sɥɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | suinterais /sɥɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
suinterais /sɥɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
suinterait /sɥɛ̃.tʁɛ/ |
suinterions /sɥɛ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
suinteriez /sɥɛ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
suinteraient /sɥɛ̃.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | suinte /sɥɛ̃t/ |
suintes /sɥɛ̃t/ |
suinte /sɥɛ̃t/ |
suintions /sɥɛ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
suintiez /sɥɛ̃.tje/ |
suintent /sɥɛ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | suintasse /sɥɛ̃.tas/ |
suintasses /sɥɛ̃.tas/ |
suintât /sɥɛ̃.ta/ |
suintassions /sɥɛ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
suintassiez /sɥɛ̃.ta.sje/ |
suintassent /sɥɛ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | suinte /sɥɛ̃t/ |
— | suintons /sɥɛ̃.tɔ̃/ |
suintez /sɥɛ̃.te/ |
— | |
| 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
- “suinter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.