suinter

French

Etymology

From suint.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɥɛ̃.te/

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Verb

suinter

1. (intransitive, also figurative) to ooze
   • 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 3, in Les furtifs, La Volte, →ISBN:

     Un parallélépipède allongé en bord de fleuve qui suintait cette fausse chaleur des designers scandinaves, toute de vitre et de bois clair, où la convivialité se résumait à des ardoises sans craie posées sur des chevalets neufs, […]

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Conjugation

Conjugation of suinter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	suinter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	suintant /sɥɛ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		suinté /sɥɛ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	suinte /sɥɛ̃t/	suintes /sɥɛ̃t/	suinte /sɥɛ̃t/	suintons /sɥɛ̃.tɔ̃/	suintez /sɥɛ̃.te/	suintent /sɥɛ̃t/
	imperfect	suintais /sɥɛ̃.tɛ/	suintais /sɥɛ̃.tɛ/	suintait /sɥɛ̃.tɛ/	suintions /sɥɛ̃.tjɔ̃/	suintiez /sɥɛ̃.tje/	suintaient /sɥɛ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	suintai /sɥɛ̃.te/	suintas /sɥɛ̃.ta/	suinta /sɥɛ̃.ta/	suintâmes /sɥɛ̃.tam/	suintâtes /sɥɛ̃.tat/	suintèrent /sɥɛ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	suinterai /sɥɛ̃.tʁe/	suinteras /sɥɛ̃.tʁa/	suintera /sɥɛ̃.tʁa/	suinterons /sɥɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/	suinterez /sɥɛ̃.tʁe/	suinteront /sɥɛ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	suinterais /sɥɛ̃.tʁɛ/	suinterais /sɥɛ̃.tʁɛ/	suinterait /sɥɛ̃.tʁɛ/	suinterions /sɥɛ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	suinteriez /sɥɛ̃.tə.ʁje/	suinteraient /sɥɛ̃.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	suinte /sɥɛ̃t/	suintes /sɥɛ̃t/	suinte /sɥɛ̃t/	suintions /sɥɛ̃.tjɔ̃/	suintiez /sɥɛ̃.tje/	suintent /sɥɛ̃t/
	imperfect2	suintasse /sɥɛ̃.tas/	suintasses /sɥɛ̃.tas/	suintât /sɥɛ̃.ta/	suintassions /sɥɛ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	suintassiez /sɥɛ̃.ta.sje/	suintassent /sɥɛ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	suinte /sɥɛ̃t/	—	suintons /sɥɛ̃.tɔ̃/	suintez /sɥɛ̃.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: 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).

Derived terms

• suintement

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• utérins