offusquer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin offuscāre (“to vilify, to degrade”) (infinitive offuscāre), from of- + fuscō (“to darken”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.fys.ke/

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• Homophones: offusquai, offusqué, offusquée, offusquées, offusqués, offusquez

Verb

offusquer

1. (transitive) to offend
2. (pronominal) to be offended (by), to take offence (at) [with de ‘something’]

Conjugation

Conjugation of offusquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	offusquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	offusquant /ɔ.fys.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		offusqué /ɔ.fys.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	offusque /ɔ.fysk/	offusques /ɔ.fysk/	offusque /ɔ.fysk/	offusquons /ɔ.fys.kɔ̃/	offusquez /ɔ.fys.ke/	offusquent /ɔ.fysk/
	imperfect	offusquais /ɔ.fys.kɛ/	offusquais /ɔ.fys.kɛ/	offusquait /ɔ.fys.kɛ/	offusquions /ɔ.fys.kjɔ̃/	offusquiez /ɔ.fys.kje/	offusquaient /ɔ.fys.kɛ/
	past historic2	offusquai /ɔ.fys.ke/	offusquas /ɔ.fys.ka/	offusqua /ɔ.fys.ka/	offusquâmes /ɔ.fys.kam/	offusquâtes /ɔ.fys.kat/	offusquèrent /ɔ.fys.kɛʁ/
	future	offusquerai /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁe/	offusqueras /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁa/	offusquera /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁa/	offusquerons /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁɔ̃/	offusquerez /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁe/	offusqueront /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	offusquerais /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁɛ/	offusquerais /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁɛ/	offusquerait /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁɛ/	offusquerions /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	offusqueriez /ɔ.fys.kə.ʁje/	offusqueraient /ɔ.fys.kə.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	offusque /ɔ.fysk/	offusques /ɔ.fysk/	offusque /ɔ.fysk/	offusquions /ɔ.fys.kjɔ̃/	offusquiez /ɔ.fys.kje/	offusquent /ɔ.fysk/
	imperfect2	offusquasse /ɔ.fys.kas/	offusquasses /ɔ.fys.kas/	offusquât /ɔ.fys.ka/	offusquassions /ɔ.fys.ka.sjɔ̃/	offusquassiez /ɔ.fys.ka.sje/	offusquassent /ɔ.fys.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	offusque /ɔ.fysk/	—	offusquons /ɔ.fys.kɔ̃/	offusquez /ɔ.fys.ke/	—
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

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

Anagrams

• suffoquer