saturer
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin saturāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa.ty.ʁe/
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Verb
saturer
- to saturate
- (informal, intransitive, figuratively) to have reached saturation point; to have had enough
- Near-synonym: en avoir assez
- Je sature. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Conjugation
Conjugation of saturer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | saturer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | saturant /sa.ty.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | saturé /sa.ty.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | sature /sa.tyʁ/ |
satures /sa.tyʁ/ |
sature /sa.tyʁ/ |
saturons /sa.ty.ʁɔ̃/ |
saturez /sa.ty.ʁe/ |
saturent /sa.tyʁ/ |
| imperfect | saturais /sa.ty.ʁɛ/ |
saturais /sa.ty.ʁɛ/ |
saturait /sa.ty.ʁɛ/ |
saturions /sa.ty.ʁjɔ̃/ |
saturiez /sa.ty.ʁje/ |
saturaient /sa.ty.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | saturai /sa.ty.ʁe/ |
saturas /sa.ty.ʁa/ |
satura /sa.ty.ʁa/ |
saturâmes /sa.ty.ʁam/ |
saturâtes /sa.ty.ʁat/ |
saturèrent /sa.ty.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | saturerai /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁe/ |
satureras /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁa/ |
saturera /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁa/ |
saturerons /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
saturerez /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁe/ |
satureront /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | saturerais /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
saturerais /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
saturerait /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
saturerions /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
satureriez /sa.ty.ʁə.ʁje/ |
satureraient /sa.ty.ʁə.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 | sature /sa.tyʁ/ |
satures /sa.tyʁ/ |
sature /sa.tyʁ/ |
saturions /sa.ty.ʁjɔ̃/ |
saturiez /sa.ty.ʁje/ |
saturent /sa.tyʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | saturasse /sa.ty.ʁas/ |
saturasses /sa.ty.ʁas/ |
saturât /sa.ty.ʁa/ |
saturassions /sa.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
saturassiez /sa.ty.ʁa.sje/ |
saturassent /sa.ty.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | sature /sa.tyʁ/ |
— | saturons /sa.ty.ʁɔ̃/ |
saturez /sa.ty.ʁe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “saturer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Latin
Verb
saturer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of saturō