suppurer

French

Etymology

From Latin suppūrāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.py.ʁe/

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Verb

suppurer

1. to suppurate, fester (form or discharge pus)

Conjugation

Conjugation of suppurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	suppurer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	suppurant /sy.py.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		suppuré /sy.py.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	suppure /sy.pyʁ/	suppures /sy.pyʁ/	suppure /sy.pyʁ/	suppurons /sy.py.ʁɔ̃/	suppurez /sy.py.ʁe/	suppurent /sy.pyʁ/
	imperfect	suppurais /sy.py.ʁɛ/	suppurais /sy.py.ʁɛ/	suppurait /sy.py.ʁɛ/	suppurions /sy.py.ʁjɔ̃/	suppuriez /sy.py.ʁje/	suppuraient /sy.py.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	suppurai /sy.py.ʁe/	suppuras /sy.py.ʁa/	suppura /sy.py.ʁa/	suppurâmes /sy.py.ʁam/	suppurâtes /sy.py.ʁat/	suppurèrent /sy.py.ʁɛʁ/
	future	suppurerai /sy.py.ʁə.ʁe/	suppureras /sy.py.ʁə.ʁa/	suppurera /sy.py.ʁə.ʁa/	suppurerons /sy.py.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	suppurerez /sy.py.ʁə.ʁe/	suppureront /sy.py.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	suppurerais /sy.py.ʁə.ʁɛ/	suppurerais /sy.py.ʁə.ʁɛ/	suppurerait /sy.py.ʁə.ʁɛ/	suppurerions /sy.py.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	suppureriez /sy.py.ʁə.ʁje/	suppureraient /sy.py.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	suppure /sy.pyʁ/	suppures /sy.pyʁ/	suppure /sy.pyʁ/	suppurions /sy.py.ʁjɔ̃/	suppuriez /sy.py.ʁje/	suppurent /sy.pyʁ/
	imperfect2	suppurasse /sy.py.ʁas/	suppurasses /sy.py.ʁas/	suppurât /sy.py.ʁa/	suppurassions /sy.py.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	suppurassiez /sy.py.ʁa.sje/	suppurassent /sy.py.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	suppure /sy.pyʁ/	—	suppurons /sy.py.ʁɔ̃/	suppurez /sy.py.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

• suppuration

Descendants

• → Romanian: supura

Further reading

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