essouffler
French
Etymology
From souffler.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.su.fle/
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Verb
essouffler
- (transitive) to knock the wind out of, leave breathless
- (reflexive) to become breathless
- (reflexive, figurative) to run out of steam, to tail off
Conjugation
Conjugation of essouffler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | essouffler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | essoufflant /e.su.flɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | essoufflé /e.su.fle/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | essouffle /e.sufl/ |
essouffles /e.sufl/ |
essouffle /e.sufl/ |
essoufflons /e.su.flɔ̃/ |
essoufflez /e.su.fle/ |
essoufflent /e.sufl/ |
| imperfect | essoufflais /e.su.flɛ/ |
essoufflais /e.su.flɛ/ |
essoufflait /e.su.flɛ/ |
essoufflions /e.su.fli.jɔ̃/ |
essouffliez /e.su.fli.je/ |
essoufflaient /e.su.flɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | essoufflai /e.su.fle/ |
essoufflas /e.su.fla/ |
essouffla /e.su.fla/ |
essoufflâmes /e.su.flam/ |
essoufflâtes /e.su.flat/ |
essoufflèrent /e.su.flɛʁ/ | |
| future | essoufflerai /e.su.flə.ʁe/ |
essouffleras /e.su.flə.ʁa/ |
essoufflera /e.su.flə.ʁa/ |
essoufflerons /e.su.flə.ʁɔ̃/ |
essoufflerez /e.su.flə.ʁe/ |
essouffleront /e.su.flə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | essoufflerais /e.su.flə.ʁɛ/ |
essoufflerais /e.su.flə.ʁɛ/ |
essoufflerait /e.su.flə.ʁɛ/ |
essoufflerions /e.su.flə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
essouffleriez /e.su.flə.ʁje/ |
essouffleraient /e.su.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 | essouffle /e.sufl/ |
essouffles /e.sufl/ |
essouffle /e.sufl/ |
essoufflions /e.su.fli.jɔ̃/ |
essouffliez /e.su.fli.je/ |
essoufflent /e.sufl/ |
| imperfect2 | essoufflasse /e.su.flas/ |
essoufflasses /e.su.flas/ |
essoufflât /e.su.fla/ |
essoufflassions /e.su.fla.sjɔ̃/ |
essoufflassiez /e.su.fla.sje/ |
essoufflassent /e.su.flas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | essouffle /e.sufl/ |
— | essoufflons /e.su.flɔ̃/ |
essoufflez /e.su.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “essouffler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.