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rouspéter
rouspéter
French
Verb
rouspéter
- to grumble
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written rouspéter-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written rouspèter-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.
Conjugation of rouspéter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | rouspéter | avoir rouspété | |||||
| gerund | en rouspétant | en ayant rouspété | |||||
| present participle | rouspétant /ʁus.pe.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | rouspété /ʁus.pe.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 | rouspète /ʁus.pɛt/ |
rouspètes /ʁus.pɛt/ |
rouspète /ʁus.pɛt/ |
rouspétons /ʁus.pe.tɔ̃/ |
rouspétez /ʁus.pe.te/ |
rouspètent /ʁus.pɛt/ |
| imperfect | rouspétais /ʁus.pe.tɛ/ |
rouspétais /ʁus.pe.tɛ/ |
rouspétait /ʁus.pe.tɛ/ |
rouspétions /ʁus.pe.tjɔ̃/ |
rouspétiez /ʁus.pe.tje/ |
rouspétaient /ʁus.pe.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | rouspétai /ʁus.pe.te/ |
rouspétas /ʁus.pe.ta/ |
rouspéta /ʁus.pe.ta/ |
rouspétâmes /ʁus.pe.tam/ |
rouspétâtes /ʁus.pe.tat/ |
rouspétèrent /ʁus.pe.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | rouspèterai or rouspéterai /ʁus.pɛ.tʁe/ |
rouspèteras or rouspéteras /ʁus.pɛ.tʁa/ |
rouspètera or rouspétera /ʁus.pɛ.tʁa/ |
rouspèterons or rouspéterons /ʁus.pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
rouspèterez or rouspéterez /ʁus.pɛ.tʁe/ |
rouspèteront or rouspéteront /ʁus.pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | rouspèterais or rouspéterais /ʁus.pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
rouspèterais or rouspéterais /ʁus.pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
rouspèterait or rouspéterait /ʁus.pɛ.tʁɛ/ |
rouspèterions or rouspéterions /ʁus.pɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rouspèteriez or rouspéteriez /ʁus.pɛ.tə.ʁje/ |
rouspèteraient or rouspéteraient /ʁus.pɛ.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 | rouspète /ʁus.pɛt/ |
rouspètes /ʁus.pɛt/ |
rouspète /ʁus.pɛt/ |
rouspétions /ʁus.pe.tjɔ̃/ |
rouspétiez /ʁus.pe.tje/ |
rouspètent /ʁus.pɛt/ |
| imperfect1 |
rouspétasse /ʁus.pe.tas/ |
rouspétasses /ʁus.pe.tas/ |
rouspétât /ʁus.pe.ta/ |
rouspétassions /ʁus.pe.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
rouspétassiez /ʁus.pe.ta.sje/ |
rouspétassent /ʁus.pe.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 | – | |
| — | rouspète /ʁus.pɛt/ |
— | rouspétons /ʁus.pe.tɔ̃/ |
rouspétez /ʁus.pe.te/ |
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