suffoquer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suffōcāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.fɔ.ke/

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Verb

suffoquer

1. (ambitransitive) to suffocate

Conjugation

Conjugation of suffoquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	suffoquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	suffoquant /sy.fɔ.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		suffoqué /sy.fɔ.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	suffoque /sy.fɔk/	suffoques /sy.fɔk/	suffoque /sy.fɔk/	suffoquons /sy.fɔ.kɔ̃/	suffoquez /sy.fɔ.ke/	suffoquent /sy.fɔk/
	imperfect	suffoquais /sy.fɔ.kɛ/	suffoquais /sy.fɔ.kɛ/	suffoquait /sy.fɔ.kɛ/	suffoquions /sy.fɔ.kjɔ̃/	suffoquiez /sy.fɔ.kje/	suffoquaient /sy.fɔ.kɛ/
	past historic2	suffoquai /sy.fɔ.ke/	suffoquas /sy.fɔ.ka/	suffoqua /sy.fɔ.ka/	suffoquâmes /sy.fɔ.kam/	suffoquâtes /sy.fɔ.kat/	suffoquèrent /sy.fɔ.kɛʁ/
	future	suffoquerai /sy.fɔ.kʁe/	suffoqueras /sy.fɔ.kʁa/	suffoquera /sy.fɔ.kʁa/	suffoquerons /sy.fɔ.kʁɔ̃/	suffoquerez /sy.fɔ.kʁe/	suffoqueront /sy.fɔ.kʁɔ̃/
	conditional	suffoquerais /sy.fɔ.kʁɛ/	suffoquerais /sy.fɔ.kʁɛ/	suffoquerait /sy.fɔ.kʁɛ/	suffoquerions /sy.fɔ.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	suffoqueriez /sy.fɔ.kə.ʁje/	suffoqueraient /sy.fɔ.kʁɛ/
(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	suffoque /sy.fɔk/	suffoques /sy.fɔk/	suffoque /sy.fɔk/	suffoquions /sy.fɔ.kjɔ̃/	suffoquiez /sy.fɔ.kje/	suffoquent /sy.fɔk/
	imperfect2	suffoquasse /sy.fɔ.kas/	suffoquasses /sy.fɔ.kas/	suffoquât /sy.fɔ.ka/	suffoquassions /sy.fɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/	suffoquassiez /sy.fɔ.ka.sje/	suffoquassent /sy.fɔ.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	suffoque /sy.fɔk/	—	suffoquons /sy.fɔ.kɔ̃/	suffoquez /sy.fɔ.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).

See also

• étrangler

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• offusquer