conspuer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cōnspuō (infinitive conspuere).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃s.pɥe/

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Verb

conspuer

1. to boo, to shout down

Conjugation

Conjugation of conspuer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	conspuer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	conspuant /kɔ̃s.pɥɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		conspué /kɔ̃s.pɥe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	conspue /kɔ̃s.py/	conspues /kɔ̃s.py/	conspue /kɔ̃s.py/	conspuons /kɔ̃s.pɥɔ̃/	conspuez /kɔ̃s.pɥe/	conspuent /kɔ̃s.py/
	imperfect	conspuais /kɔ̃s.pɥɛ/	conspuais /kɔ̃s.pɥɛ/	conspuait /kɔ̃s.pɥɛ/	conspuions /kɔ̃s.py.jɔ̃/	conspuiez /kɔ̃s.py.je/	conspuaient /kɔ̃s.pɥɛ/
	past historic2	conspuai /kɔ̃s.pɥe/	conspuas /kɔ̃s.pɥa/	conspua /kɔ̃s.pɥa/	conspuâmes /kɔ̃s.pɥam/	conspuâtes /kɔ̃s.pɥat/	conspuèrent /kɔ̃s.pɥɛʁ/
	future	conspuerai /kɔ̃s.py.ʁe/	conspueras /kɔ̃s.py.ʁa/	conspuera /kɔ̃s.py.ʁa/	conspuerons /kɔ̃s.py.ʁɔ̃/	conspuerez /kɔ̃s.py.ʁe/	conspueront /kɔ̃s.py.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	conspuerais /kɔ̃s.py.ʁɛ/	conspuerais /kɔ̃s.py.ʁɛ/	conspuerait /kɔ̃s.py.ʁɛ/	conspuerions /kɔ̃s.py.ʁjɔ̃/	conspueriez /kɔ̃s.py.ʁje/	conspueraient /kɔ̃s.py.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	conspue /kɔ̃s.py/	conspues /kɔ̃s.py/	conspue /kɔ̃s.py/	conspuions /kɔ̃s.py.jɔ̃/	conspuiez /kɔ̃s.py.je/	conspuent /kɔ̃s.py/
	imperfect2	conspuasse /kɔ̃s.pɥas/	conspuasses /kɔ̃s.pɥas/	conspuât /kɔ̃s.pɥa/	conspuassions /kɔ̃s.pɥa.sjɔ̃/	conspuassiez /kɔ̃s.pɥa.sje/	conspuassent /kɔ̃s.pɥas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	conspue /kɔ̃s.py/	—	conspuons /kɔ̃s.pɥɔ̃/	conspuez /kɔ̃s.pɥe/	—
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).

Further reading

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