rouspéter

French

Etymology

Probably formed from rousser (as with rouscailler) + péter.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʁus.pe.te/
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Verb

rouspéter

  1. to grumble

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like céder. It is a regular -er verb, except that its last stem vowel alternates between /e/ (written ‘é’) and /ɛ/ (written ‘è’), with the latter being used before mute ‘e’. One special case is the future stem, used in the future and the conditional. Before 1990, the future stem of such verbs was written rouspéter-, reflecting the historic pronunciation /e/. In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it be written rouspèter-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). Both spellings are in use today, and both are therefore given here.

Conjugation of rouspéter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle rouspétant
/ʁus.pe.tɑ̃/
past participle rouspété
/ʁus.pe.te/
infinitive
simple rouspéter
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple rouspétant
/ʁus.pe.tɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present rouspète
/ʁus.pɛt/		 rouspètes
/ʁus.pɛt/		 rouspète
/ʁus.pɛt/		 rouspétons
/ʁus.pe.tɔ̃/		 rouspétez
/ʁus.pe.te/		 rouspètent
/ʁus.pɛt/
imperfect rouspétais
/ʁus.pe.tɛ/		 rouspétais
/ʁus.pe.tɛ/		 rouspétait
/ʁus.pe.tɛ/		 rouspétions
/ʁus.pe.tjɔ̃/		 rouspétiez
/ʁus.pe.tje/		 rouspétaient
/ʁus.pe.tɛ/
past historic2 rouspétai
/ʁus.pe.te/		 rouspétas
/ʁus.pe.ta/		 rouspéta
/ʁus.pe.ta/		 rouspétâmes
/ʁus.pe.tam/		 rouspétâtes
/ʁus.pe.tat/		 rouspétèrent
/ʁus.pe.tɛʁ/
future rouspèterai or rouspéterai
/ʁus.pɛ.tʁe/		 rouspèteras or rouspéteras
/ʁus.pɛ.tʁa/		 rouspètera or rouspétera
/ʁus.pɛ.tʁa/		 rouspèterons or rouspéterons
/ʁus.pɛ.tʁɔ̃/		 rouspèterez or rouspéterez
/ʁus.pɛ.tʁe/		 rouspèteront or rouspéteront
/ʁus.pɛ.tʁɔ̃/
conditional rouspèterais or rouspéterais
/ʁus.pɛ.tʁɛ/		 rouspèterais or rouspéterais
/ʁus.pɛ.tʁɛ/		 rouspèterait or rouspéterait
/ʁus.pɛ.tʁɛ/		 rouspèterions or rouspéterions
/ʁus.pɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/		 rouspèteriez or rouspéteriez
/ʁus.pɛ.tə.ʁje/		 rouspèteraient or rouspéteraient
/ʁus.pɛ.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 rouspète
/ʁus.pɛt/		 rouspètes
/ʁus.pɛt/		 rouspète
/ʁus.pɛt/		 rouspétions
/ʁus.pe.tjɔ̃/		 rouspétiez
/ʁus.pe.tje/		 rouspètent
/ʁus.pɛt/
imperfect2 rouspétasse
/ʁus.pe.tas/		 rouspétasses
/ʁus.pe.tas/		 rouspétât
/ʁus.pe.ta/		 rouspétassions
/ʁus.pe.ta.sjɔ̃/		 rouspétassiez
/ʁus.pe.ta.sje/		 rouspétassent
/ʁus.pe.tas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — rouspète
/ʁus.pɛt/		 — rouspétons
/ʁus.pe.tɔ̃/		 rouspétez
/ʁus.pe.te/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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