royer
Asturian
Alternative forms
- roer
Etymology
Inherited from Latin rōdere, from Proto-Indo-European *rōd-, contracted o-grade form of *reh₁d- (“to gnaw, scrape, scratch”).
Verb
royer
- to gnaw (to bite something persistently)
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
French
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɔ.je/
Verb
royer
- (Switzerland, impersonal) to rain
Conjugation
This verb is part of a large group of -er verbs that conjugate like noyer or ennuyer. These verbs always replace the 'y' with an 'i' before a silent 'e'.This verb is impersonal and is conjugated only in the third-person singular.
Conjugation of royer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | royer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | royant /ʁwa.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | royé /ʁwa.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | — | — | roie /ʁwa/ | — | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | royait /ʁwa.jɛ/ | — | — | — | |
| past historic2 | — | — | roya /ʁwa.ja/ | — | — | — | |
| future | — | — | roiera /ʁwa.ʁa/ | — | — | — | |
| conditional | — | — | roierait /ʁwa.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 | — | — | roie /ʁwa/ | — | — | — |
| imperfect2 | — | — | royât /ʁwa.ja/ | — | — | — | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 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
- “royer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.