rôder
See also: roder
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan rodar, from Latin rotāre. Doublet of rouer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁo.de/
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Verb
rôder
- to loiter, prowl, move about suspiciously or hostilely
- to wander
- 1877, Victor Hugo, chapter 8, in L’Art d’être grand-père, Calmann-Lévy, page 25:
- On voit rôder l’abeille à jeun, La guêpe court, le frelon guette ;
- We see the fasting bee wandering, The wasp runs, the hornet lies in wait;
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- Misspelling of roder.
- 1995 [1999] Couton, Patrick (transl.), Trois Sœurcières, Terry Pratchett, Pocket, 5721, →ISBN, p. 10:
- Elle avait passé des années à moisir en province, à jouer les secondes rafales, à se rôder, […]
- 1995 [1999] Couton, Patrick (transl.), Trois Sœurcières, Terry Pratchett, Pocket, 5721, →ISBN, p. 10:
Conjugation
Conjugation of rôder (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rôder | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rôdant /ʁo.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rôdé /ʁo.de/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | rôde /ʁod/ | rôdes /ʁod/ | rôde /ʁod/ | rôdons /ʁo.dɔ̃/ | rôdez /ʁo.de/ | rôdent /ʁod/ |
| imperfect | rôdais /ʁo.dɛ/ | rôdais /ʁo.dɛ/ | rôdait /ʁo.dɛ/ | rôdions /ʁo.djɔ̃/ | rôdiez /ʁo.dje/ | rôdaient /ʁo.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rôdai /ʁo.de/ | rôdas /ʁo.da/ | rôda /ʁo.da/ | rôdâmes /ʁo.dam/ | rôdâtes /ʁo.dat/ | rôdèrent /ʁo.dɛʁ/ | |
| future | rôderai /ʁo.dʁe/ | rôderas /ʁo.dʁa/ | rôdera /ʁo.dʁa/ | rôderons /ʁo.dʁɔ̃/ | rôderez /ʁo.dʁe/ | rôderont /ʁo.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rôderais /ʁo.dʁɛ/ | rôderais /ʁo.dʁɛ/ | rôderait /ʁo.dʁɛ/ | rôderions /ʁo.də.ʁjɔ̃/ | rôderiez /ʁo.də.ʁje/ | rôderaient /ʁo.dʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | rôde /ʁod/ | rôdes /ʁod/ | rôde /ʁod/ | rôdions /ʁo.djɔ̃/ | rôdiez /ʁo.dje/ | rôdent /ʁod/ |
| imperfect2 | rôdasse /ʁo.das/ | rôdasses /ʁo.das/ | rôdât /ʁo.da/ | rôdassions /ʁo.da.sjɔ̃/ | rôdassiez /ʁo.da.sje/ | rôdassent /ʁo.das/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rôde /ʁod/ | — | rôdons /ʁo.dɔ̃/ | rôdez /ʁo.de/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
See also
- roder
Further reading
- “rôder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- dorer, ordre