rouspéter
French
Etymology
Probably formed from rousser (as with rouscailler) + péter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁus.pe.te/
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Verb
rouspéter
- to grumble
- Synonyms: gronder, disputer
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.
| infinitive | simple | rouspéter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rouspétant /ʁus.pe.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rouspété /ʁus.pe.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (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/ | |
| past historic2 | rouspétai /ʁus.pe.te/ | rouspétas /ʁus.pe.ta/ | rouspéta /ʁus.pe.ta/ | rouspétâmes /ʁus.pe.tam/ | rouspétâtes /ʁus.pe.tat/ | rouspétèrent /ʁus.pe.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | rouspèterai or rouspéterai /ʁus.pɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁus.pe.tʁe/ | rouspèteras or rouspéteras /ʁus.pɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁus.pe.tʁa/ | rouspètera or rouspétera /ʁus.pɛ.tʁa/ or /ʁus.pe.tʁa/ | rouspèterons or rouspéterons /ʁus.pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁus.pe.tʁɔ̃/ | rouspèterez or rouspéterez /ʁus.pɛ.tʁe/ or /ʁus.pe.tʁe/ | rouspèteront or rouspéteront /ʁus.pɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ʁus.pe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rouspèterais or rouspéterais /ʁus.pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁus.pe.tʁɛ/ | rouspèterais or rouspéterais /ʁus.pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁus.pe.tʁɛ/ | rouspèterait or rouspéterait /ʁus.pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁus.pe.tʁɛ/ | rouspèterions or rouspéterions /ʁus.pɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁus.pe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | rouspèteriez or rouspéteriez /ʁus.pɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ʁus.pe.tə.ʁje/ | rouspèteraient or rouspéteraient /ʁus.pɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ʁus.pe.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 | rouspète /ʁus.pɛt/ | rouspètes /ʁus.pɛt/ | rouspète /ʁus.pɛt/ | rouspétions /ʁus.pe.tjɔ̃/ | rouspétiez /ʁus.pe.tje/ | rouspètent /ʁus.pɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | 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/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rouspète /ʁus.pɛt/ | — | rouspétons /ʁus.pe.tɔ̃/ | rouspétez /ʁus.pe.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “rouspéter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.