supplémenter

See also: supplementer

French

Etymology

From supplément +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.ple.mɑ̃.te/

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Verb

supplémenter

1. (transitive) to supplement

Conjugation

Conjugation of supplémenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	supplémenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	supplémentant /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		supplémenté /sy.ple.mɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	supplémente /sy.ple.mɑ̃t/	supplémentes /sy.ple.mɑ̃t/	supplémente /sy.ple.mɑ̃t/	supplémentons /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	supplémentez /sy.ple.mɑ̃.te/	supplémentent /sy.ple.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect	supplémentais /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tɛ/	supplémentais /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tɛ/	supplémentait /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tɛ/	supplémentions /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	supplémentiez /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tje/	supplémentaient /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	supplémentai /sy.ple.mɑ̃.te/	supplémentas /sy.ple.mɑ̃.ta/	supplémenta /sy.ple.mɑ̃.ta/	supplémentâmes /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tam/	supplémentâtes /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tat/	supplémentèrent /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	supplémenterai /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tʁe/	supplémenteras /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tʁa/	supplémentera /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tʁa/	supplémenterons /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	supplémenterez /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tʁe/	supplémenteront /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	supplémenterais /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	supplémenterais /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	supplémenterait /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/	supplémenterions /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	supplémenteriez /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	supplémenteraient /sy.ple.mɑ̃.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	supplémente /sy.ple.mɑ̃t/	supplémentes /sy.ple.mɑ̃t/	supplémente /sy.ple.mɑ̃t/	supplémentions /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	supplémentiez /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tje/	supplémentent /sy.ple.mɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	supplémentasse /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tas/	supplémentasses /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tas/	supplémentât /sy.ple.mɑ̃.ta/	supplémentassions /sy.ple.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	supplémentassiez /sy.ple.mɑ̃.ta.sje/	supplémentassent /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	supplémente /sy.ple.mɑ̃t/	—	supplémentons /sy.ple.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/	supplémentez /sy.ple.mɑ̃.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).

Further reading

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