susurrer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin susurrāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.sy.ʁe/

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Verb

susurrer

1. (usually intransitive) to whisper (talk quietly)

Conjugation

Conjugation of susurrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	susurrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	susurrant /sy.sy.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		susurré /sy.sy.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	susurre /sy.syʁ/	susurres /sy.syʁ/	susurre /sy.syʁ/	susurrons /sy.sy.ʁɔ̃/	susurrez /sy.sy.ʁe/	susurrent /sy.syʁ/
	imperfect	susurrais /sy.sy.ʁɛ/	susurrais /sy.sy.ʁɛ/	susurrait /sy.sy.ʁɛ/	susurrions /sy.sy.ʁjɔ̃/	susurriez /sy.sy.ʁje/	susurraient /sy.sy.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	susurrai /sy.sy.ʁe/	susurras /sy.sy.ʁa/	susurra /sy.sy.ʁa/	susurrâmes /sy.sy.ʁam/	susurrâtes /sy.sy.ʁat/	susurrèrent /sy.sy.ʁɛʁ/
	future	susurrerai /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁe/	susurreras /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁa/	susurrera /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁa/	susurrerons /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	susurrerez /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁe/	susurreront /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	susurrerais /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	susurrerais /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	susurrerait /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	susurrerions /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	susurreriez /sy.sy.ʁə.ʁje/	susurreraient /sy.sy.ʁə.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	susurre /sy.syʁ/	susurres /sy.syʁ/	susurre /sy.syʁ/	susurrions /sy.sy.ʁjɔ̃/	susurriez /sy.sy.ʁje/	susurrent /sy.syʁ/
	imperfect2	susurrasse /sy.sy.ʁas/	susurrasses /sy.sy.ʁas/	susurrât /sy.sy.ʁa/	susurrassions /sy.sy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	susurrassiez /sy.sy.ʁa.sje/	susurrassent /sy.sy.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	susurre /sy.syʁ/	—	susurrons /sy.sy.ʁɔ̃/	susurrez /sy.sy.ʁe/	—
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

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

Latin

Verb

susurrer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of susurrō