insuffler

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin īnsufflāre. Compare the simple verb souffler, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.sy.fle/

• Audio:

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Verb

insuffler

1. (transitive) to infuse
2. (transitive) to instill

Conjugation

Conjugation of insuffler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	insuffler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	insufflant /ɛ̃.sy.flɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		insufflé /ɛ̃.sy.fle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	insuffle /ɛ̃.syfl/	insuffles /ɛ̃.syfl/	insuffle /ɛ̃.syfl/	insufflons /ɛ̃.sy.flɔ̃/	insufflez /ɛ̃.sy.fle/	insufflent /ɛ̃.syfl/
	imperfect	insufflais /ɛ̃.sy.flɛ/	insufflais /ɛ̃.sy.flɛ/	insufflait /ɛ̃.sy.flɛ/	insufflions /ɛ̃.sy.fli.jɔ̃/	insuffliez /ɛ̃.sy.fli.je/	insufflaient /ɛ̃.sy.flɛ/
	past historic2	insufflai /ɛ̃.sy.fle/	insufflas /ɛ̃.sy.fla/	insuffla /ɛ̃.sy.fla/	insufflâmes /ɛ̃.sy.flam/	insufflâtes /ɛ̃.sy.flat/	insufflèrent /ɛ̃.sy.flɛʁ/
	future	insufflerai /ɛ̃.sy.flə.ʁe/	insuffleras /ɛ̃.sy.flə.ʁa/	insufflera /ɛ̃.sy.flə.ʁa/	insufflerons /ɛ̃.sy.flə.ʁɔ̃/	insufflerez /ɛ̃.sy.flə.ʁe/	insuffleront /ɛ̃.sy.flə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	insufflerais /ɛ̃.sy.flə.ʁɛ/	insufflerais /ɛ̃.sy.flə.ʁɛ/	insufflerait /ɛ̃.sy.flə.ʁɛ/	insufflerions /ɛ̃.sy.flə.ʁjɔ̃/	insuffleriez /ɛ̃.sy.flə.ʁje/	insuffleraient /ɛ̃.sy.flə.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	insuffle /ɛ̃.syfl/	insuffles /ɛ̃.syfl/	insuffle /ɛ̃.syfl/	insufflions /ɛ̃.sy.fli.jɔ̃/	insuffliez /ɛ̃.sy.fli.je/	insufflent /ɛ̃.syfl/
	imperfect2	insufflasse /ɛ̃.sy.flas/	insufflasses /ɛ̃.sy.flas/	insufflât /ɛ̃.sy.fla/	insufflassions /ɛ̃.sy.fla.sjɔ̃/	insufflassiez /ɛ̃.sy.fla.sje/	insufflassent /ɛ̃.sy.flas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	insuffle /ɛ̃.syfl/	—	insufflons /ɛ̃.sy.flɔ̃/	insufflez /ɛ̃.sy.fle/	—
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

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

Latin

Verb

īnsuffler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of īnsufflō