saupoudrer

French

Etymology

From sel + poudrer.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /so.pu.dʁe/
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Verb

saupoudrer (transitive)

  1. to salt
  2. to sprinkle powder (onto)
  3. (figurative) to sprinkle (onto)
    • 2023 August 8, Alexis Buisson, “À Sarasota, la guerre contre le « wokisme » vire au « fascisme » [At Sarasota, the war against "wokism" drifts towards "fascism"]”, in Mediapart‎:
      Il a saupoudré le tout d’une dose de flicage.
      He has sprinkled it all with a dose of surveillance.

Conjugation
Conjugation of saupoudrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple saupoudrer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple saupoudrant
/so.pu.dʁɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle saupoudré
/so.pu.dʁe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present saupoudre
/so.pudʁ/		 saupoudres
/so.pudʁ/		 saupoudre
/so.pudʁ/		 saupoudrons
/so.pu.dʁɔ̃/		 saupoudrez
/so.pu.dʁe/		 saupoudrent
/so.pudʁ/
imperfect saupoudrais
/so.pu.dʁɛ/		 saupoudrais
/so.pu.dʁɛ/		 saupoudrait
/so.pu.dʁɛ/		 saupoudrions
/so.pu.dʁi.jɔ̃/		 saupoudriez
/so.pu.dʁi.je/		 saupoudraient
/so.pu.dʁɛ/
past historic2 saupoudrai
/so.pu.dʁe/		 saupoudras
/so.pu.dʁa/		 saupoudra
/so.pu.dʁa/		 saupoudrâmes
/so.pu.dʁam/		 saupoudrâtes
/so.pu.dʁat/		 saupoudrèrent
/so.pu.dʁɛʁ/
future saupoudrerai
/so.pu.dʁə.ʁe/		 saupoudreras
/so.pu.dʁə.ʁa/		 saupoudrera
/so.pu.dʁə.ʁa/		 saupoudrerons
/so.pu.dʁə.ʁɔ̃/		 saupoudrerez
/so.pu.dʁə.ʁe/		 saupoudreront
/so.pu.dʁə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional saupoudrerais
/so.pu.dʁə.ʁɛ/		 saupoudrerais
/so.pu.dʁə.ʁɛ/		 saupoudrerait
/so.pu.dʁə.ʁɛ/		 saupoudrerions
/so.pu.dʁə.ʁjɔ̃/		 saupoudreriez
/so.pu.dʁə.ʁje/		 saupoudreraient
/so.pu.dʁə.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 saupoudre
/so.pudʁ/		 saupoudres
/so.pudʁ/		 saupoudre
/so.pudʁ/		 saupoudrions
/so.pu.dʁi.jɔ̃/		 saupoudriez
/so.pu.dʁi.je/		 saupoudrent
/so.pudʁ/
imperfect2 saupoudrasse
/so.pu.dʁas/		 saupoudrasses
/so.pu.dʁas/		 saupoudrât
/so.pu.dʁa/		 saupoudrassions
/so.pu.dʁa.sjɔ̃/		 saupoudrassiez
/so.pu.dʁa.sje/		 saupoudrassent
/so.pu.dʁas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — saupoudre
/so.pudʁ/		 — saupoudrons
/so.pu.dʁɔ̃/		 saupoudrez
/so.pu.dʁe/		 —
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).

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