insupporter
French
Etymology
Back-formation from insupportable (“unbearable”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.te/
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Verb
insupporter
- (transitive, informal) to get on someone's nerves, to drive someone crazy
- Synonyms: agacer, exaspérer, excéder, taper sur les nerfs, taper sur le système
- Ça m'insupporte. ― it gets on my nerves.
Conjugation
Conjugation of insupporter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | insupporter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | insupportant /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | insupporté /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | insupporte /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁt/ |
insupportes /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁt/ |
insupporte /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁt/ |
insupportons /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/ |
insupportez /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.te/ |
insupportent /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁt/ |
| imperfect | insupportais /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tɛ/ |
insupportais /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tɛ/ |
insupportait /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tɛ/ |
insupportions /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
insupportiez /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tje/ |
insupportaient /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | insupportai /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.te/ |
insupportas /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.ta/ |
insupporta /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.ta/ |
insupportâmes /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tam/ |
insupportâtes /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tat/ |
insupportèrent /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | insupporterai /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
insupporteras /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
insupportera /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
insupporterons /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
insupporterez /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
insupporteront /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | insupporterais /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
insupporterais /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
insupporterait /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
insupporterions /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
insupporteriez /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.ʁje/ |
insupporteraient /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tə.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 | insupporte /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁt/ |
insupportes /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁt/ |
insupporte /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁt/ |
insupportions /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
insupportiez /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tje/ |
insupportent /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁt/ |
| imperfect2 | insupportasse /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tas/ |
insupportasses /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tas/ |
insupportât /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.ta/ |
insupportassions /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
insupportassiez /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.ta.sje/ |
insupportassent /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | insupporte /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁt/ |
— | insupportons /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.tɔ̃/ |
insupportez /ɛ̃.sy.pɔʁ.te/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “insupporter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.