affronter
English
Etymology
From affront + -erCategory:English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)#AFFRONTER.
Noun
affronter (plural affronters)Category:English lemmas#AFFRONTERCategory:English nouns#AFFRONTERCategory:English countable nouns#AFFRONTERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#AFFRONTERCategory:Pages with entries#AFFRONTERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#AFFRONTER
- Someone who affronts.
- One who receives an affront.
- 1833, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, England and the English:
- the affront given, out at once go affronter and affronteeCategory:English terms with quotations#AFFRONTER
Translations
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Old French#AFFRONTERCategory:French terms derived from Old French#AFFRONTER afronter (“to face; to confront; to slap in the face”), either a French derivation a- + front + -erCategory:French terms prefixed with a-#FRONTCategory:French terms suffixed with -er (verbal)#AFFRONTER, or an inheritance from an unattested Vulgar LatinCategory:French terms inherited from Vulgar Latin#AFFRONTERCategory:French terms derived from Vulgar Latin#AFFRONTER *affrontāre (“to strike against”), from LatinCategory:French terms inherited from Latin#AFFRONTERCategory:French terms derived from Latin#AFFRONTER ad + frontem. Compare Italian affrontare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.fʁɔ̃.te/Category:French 3-syllable words#AFFRONTERCategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#AFFRONTER
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Verb
affronterCategory:French lemmas#AFFRONTERCategory:French verbs#AFFRONTERCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#AFFRONTERCategory:Pages with entries#AFFRONTERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#AFFRONTER
- to confront, face
- 2018, Zaz, Résigne-moi:
- Je rêve de plus me juger, car la vie me montre ce que je dois affronter.Category:French terms with quotations#AFFRONTERCategory:Requests for translations of French quotations#AFFRONTER
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (reflexiveCategory:French reflexive verbs#AFFRONTER) to face off, to clash
Conjugation
| infinitive | simple | affronter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | affrontant /a.fʁɔ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | affronté /a.fʁɔ̃.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | affronte /a.fʁɔ̃t/ |
affrontes /a.fʁɔ̃t/ |
affronte /a.fʁɔ̃t/ |
affrontons /a.fʁɔ̃.tɔ̃/ |
affrontez /a.fʁɔ̃.te/ |
affrontent /a.fʁɔ̃t/ |
| imperfect | affrontais /a.fʁɔ̃.tɛ/ |
affrontais /a.fʁɔ̃.tɛ/ |
affrontait /a.fʁɔ̃.tɛ/ |
affrontions /a.fʁɔ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
affrontiez /a.fʁɔ̃.tje/ |
affrontaient /a.fʁɔ̃.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | affrontai /a.fʁɔ̃.te/ |
affrontas /a.fʁɔ̃.ta/ |
affronta /a.fʁɔ̃.ta/ |
affrontâmes /a.fʁɔ̃.tam/ |
affrontâtes /a.fʁɔ̃.tat/ |
affrontèrent /a.fʁɔ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | affronterai /a.fʁɔ̃.tʁe/ |
affronteras /a.fʁɔ̃.tʁa/ |
affrontera /a.fʁɔ̃.tʁa/ |
affronterons /a.fʁɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
affronterez /a.fʁɔ̃.tʁe/ |
affronteront /a.fʁɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | affronterais /a.fʁɔ̃.tʁɛ/ |
affronterais /a.fʁɔ̃.tʁɛ/ |
affronterait /a.fʁɔ̃.tʁɛ/ |
affronterions /a.fʁɔ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
affronteriez /a.fʁɔ̃.tə.ʁje/ |
affronteraient /a.fʁɔ̃.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 | affronte /a.fʁɔ̃t/ |
affrontes /a.fʁɔ̃t/ |
affronte /a.fʁɔ̃t/ |
affrontions /a.fʁɔ̃.tjɔ̃/ |
affrontiez /a.fʁɔ̃.tje/ |
affrontent /a.fʁɔ̃t/ |
| imperfect2 | affrontasse /a.fʁɔ̃.tas/ |
affrontasses /a.fʁɔ̃.tas/ |
affrontât /a.fʁɔ̃.ta/ |
affrontassions /a.fʁɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
affrontassiez /a.fʁɔ̃.ta.sje/ |
affrontassent /a.fʁɔ̃.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | affronte /a.fʁɔ̃t/ |
— | affrontons /a.fʁɔ̃.tɔ̃/ |
affrontez /a.fʁɔ̃.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). | |||||||
Synonyms
Further reading
- “affronter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Norman
Etymology
From Old FrenchCategory:Norman terms inherited from Old French#AFFRONTERCategory:Norman terms derived from Old French#AFFRONTER afronter (“to face; to confront; to slap in the face”), either a derivation a- + front + -erCategory:Norman terms prefixed with a-#FRONTCategory:Norman terms suffixed with -er#AFFRONTER, or an inheritance from an unattested Vulgar LatinCategory:Norman terms inherited from Vulgar Latin#AFFRONTERCategory:Norman terms derived from Vulgar Latin#AFFRONTER *affrontāre (“to strike against”), from LatinCategory:Norman terms inherited from Latin#AFFRONTERCategory:Norman terms derived from Latin#AFFRONTER ad + frontem.
Verb
affronterCategory:Norman lemmas#AFFRONTERCategory:Norman verbs#AFFRONTERCategory:Norman entries with incorrect language header#AFFRONTERCategory:Pages with entries#AFFRONTERCategory:Pages with 3 entries#AFFRONTER