rouler
French
Etymology
From Old French ruele, roele (“small wheel”), from Medieval Latin rotulō, from Latin rotula.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁu.le/
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Verb
rouler
- to roll
- to revolve
- (colloquial) to go (of events, to proceed)
- Ça roule bien chez mon ami.
- It's going well at my friend's house.
- (of a vehicle) to work, to function
- (intransitive) to drive (a vehicle)
- On a roulé à 80 km à l'heure.
- We were driving 80 km an hour.
- Il roule en Rolls
- He drives a Rolls.
- Elle roule dans un véhicule neuf.
- She drives a new vehicle.
- (colloquial) to dupe, to trick
- se faire rouler ― to be tricked, to be duped
Conjugation
Conjugation of rouler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rouler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | roulant /ʁu.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | roulé /ʁu.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | roule /ʁul/ | roules /ʁul/ | roule /ʁul/ | roulons /ʁu.lɔ̃/ | roulez /ʁu.le/ | roulent /ʁul/ |
| imperfect | roulais /ʁu.lɛ/ | roulais /ʁu.lɛ/ | roulait /ʁu.lɛ/ | roulions /ʁu.ljɔ̃/ | rouliez /ʁu.lje/ | roulaient /ʁu.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | roulai /ʁu.le/ | roulas /ʁu.la/ | roula /ʁu.la/ | roulâmes /ʁu.lam/ | roulâtes /ʁu.lat/ | roulèrent /ʁu.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | roulerai /ʁul.ʁe/ | rouleras /ʁul.ʁa/ | roulera /ʁul.ʁa/ | roulerons /ʁul.ʁɔ̃/ | roulerez /ʁul.ʁe/ | rouleront /ʁul.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | roulerais /ʁul.ʁɛ/ | roulerais /ʁul.ʁɛ/ | roulerait /ʁul.ʁɛ/ | roulerions /ʁu.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ | rouleriez /ʁu.lə.ʁje/ | rouleraient /ʁul.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 | roule /ʁul/ | roules /ʁul/ | roule /ʁul/ | roulions /ʁu.ljɔ̃/ | rouliez /ʁu.lje/ | roulent /ʁul/ |
| imperfect2 | roulasse /ʁu.las/ | roulasses /ʁu.las/ | roulât /ʁu.la/ | roulassions /ʁu.la.sjɔ̃/ | roulassiez /ʁu.la.sje/ | roulassent /ʁu.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | roule /ʁul/ | — | roulons /ʁu.lɔ̃/ | roulez /ʁu.le/ | — | |
| 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
- à se rouler par terre
- ça roule
- col roulé
- dérouler
- enrouler
- laissez les bons temps rouler
- pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse
- roulement
- rouler carrosse
- rouler dans la farine
- rouler des mécaniques
- rouler les mécaniques
- rouler sa bosse
- rouler sur l'or
- rouler une galoche
- rouler une pelle
- rouler un palot
- rouler un patin
- roulette
- rouleur
- roulez jeunesse
- roulure
Descendants
- Portuguese: rolar
Further reading
- “rouler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- ourler