sucer

French

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *sewg-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *séwgeti

Proto-Italic *sougō

Latin sūgō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin sūctus

Proto-Indo-European *-yetider.

Latin -iō

Latin *sūctiāre

Old French sucer

Middle French sucer

French sucer

Inherited from Middle French sucer, sucher, succer, from Old French sucer, from Vulgar Latin *sūctiāre, derived from the supine stem sūct- of Latin sūgō (“to suck”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.se/

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Verb

sucer

1. to suck

   Elle suçait un bonbon. ― She was sucking a sweet.

2. (slang, vulgar) to give head, to suck off

   Elle suce trop bien. ― She gives great head.

   • 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 86:

     Or c’était l’heure où les créatifs se font sucer. En passant par le bois de Boulogne, tu t’arrêtes pour acheter une fellation sans capote. Vingt minutes après, tu es de retour à l’agence.

     It was the time of day when the creatives go to get sucked off. Going through the Bois de Boulogne, you stop to pay for a blow job without a condom. Twenty minutes later, you're back at the agency.

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of sucer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sucer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	suçant /sy.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sucé /sy.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	suce /sys/	suces /sys/	suce /sys/	suçons /sy.sɔ̃/	sucez /sy.se/	sucent /sys/
	imperfect	suçais /sy.sɛ/	suçais /sy.sɛ/	suçait /sy.sɛ/	sucions /sy.sjɔ̃/	suciez /sy.sje/	suçaient /sy.sɛ/
	past historic2	suçai /sy.se/	suças /sy.sa/	suça /sy.sa/	suçâmes /sy.sam/	suçâtes /sy.sat/	sucèrent /sy.sɛʁ/
	future	sucerai /sy.sʁe/	suceras /sy.sʁa/	sucera /sy.sʁa/	sucerons /sy.sʁɔ̃/	sucerez /sy.sʁe/	suceront /sy.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sucerais /sy.sʁɛ/	sucerais /sy.sʁɛ/	sucerait /sy.sʁɛ/	sucerions /sy.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	suceriez /sy.sə.ʁje/	suceraient /sy.sʁɛ/
(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	suce /sys/	suces /sys/	suce /sys/	sucions /sy.sjɔ̃/	suciez /sy.sje/	sucent /sys/
	imperfect2	suçasse /sy.sas/	suçasses /sy.sas/	suçât /sy.sa/	suçassions /sy.sa.sjɔ̃/	suçassiez /sy.sa.sje/	suçassent /sy.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	suce /sys/	—	suçons /sy.sɔ̃/	sucez /sy.se/	—
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).

Derived terms

• suce-boules
• sucer de son pouce
• suceur
• suçoir

Related terms

• sucette

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: souse

Further reading

• “sucer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• crues, crûes, cures, curés, écrus, reçus, sucre, sucré