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affûter
affûter
See also: affuter
French
Alternative forms
- affuter (1990 spelling reform)
Verb
affûter
- (transitive) to sharpen; to whet (e.g. a tool)
- (transitive) to hone (a skill)
- (slang, rare, transitive) to eat
- (slang, rare, transitive) to dance
- (archaic, transitive, of a cannon) to mount on a gun carriage
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (reflexive) to wet one's whistle
Conjugation
Conjugation of affûter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | affûter | avoir affûté | |||||
| gerund | en affûtant | en ayant affûté | |||||
| present participle | affûtant /a.fy.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | affûté /a.fy.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | affûte /a.fyt/ |
affûtes /a.fyt/ |
affûte /a.fyt/ |
affûtons /a.fy.tɔ̃/ |
affûtez /a.fy.te/ |
affûtent /a.fyt/ |
| imperfect | affûtais /a.fy.tɛ/ |
affûtais /a.fy.tɛ/ |
affûtait /a.fy.tɛ/ |
affûtions /a.fy.tjɔ̃/ |
affûtiez /a.fy.tje/ |
affûtaient /a.fy.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | affûtai /a.fy.te/ |
affûtas /a.fy.ta/ |
affûta /a.fy.ta/ |
affûtâmes /a.fy.tam/ |
affûtâtes /a.fy.tat/ |
affûtèrent /a.fy.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | affûterai /a.fy.tʁe/ |
affûteras /a.fy.tʁa/ |
affûtera /a.fy.tʁa/ |
affûterons /a.fy.tʁɔ̃/ |
affûterez /a.fy.tʁe/ |
affûteront /a.fy.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | affûterais /a.fy.tʁɛ/ |
affûterais /a.fy.tʁɛ/ |
affûterait /a.fy.tʁɛ/ |
affûterions /a.fy.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
affûteriez /a.fy.tə.ʁje/ |
affûteraient /a.fy.tʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | affûte /a.fyt/ |
affûtes /a.fyt/ |
affûte /a.fyt/ |
affûtions /a.fy.tjɔ̃/ |
affûtiez /a.fy.tje/ |
affûtent /a.fyt/ |
| imperfect1 |
affûtasse /a.fy.tas/ |
affûtasses /a.fy.tas/ |
affûtât /a.fy.ta/ |
affûtassions /a.fy.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
affûtassiez /a.fy.ta.sje/ |
affûtassent /a.fy.tas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | affûte /a.fyt/ |
— | affûtons /a.fy.tɔ̃/ |
affûtez /a.fy.te/ |
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