vautrer
French
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *volūtulō (“I tumble over”), from Latin volūtum, from the verb volvō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vo.tʁe/
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Verb
vautrer
- (transitive, rare) to wallow (to roll one's body, or a part of it, in the mud or something of similar texture)
- (reflexive) to sprawl; to wallow
- (reflexive, figuratively) to wallow
- (reflexive, informal) to tumble heavily on the ground
- (reflexive, informal) to fail
Conjugation
Conjugation of vautrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | vautrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | vautrant /vo.tʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | vautré /vo.tʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | vautre /votʁ/ | vautres /votʁ/ | vautre /votʁ/ | vautrons /vo.tʁɔ̃/ | vautrez /vo.tʁe/ | vautrent /votʁ/ |
| imperfect | vautrais /vo.tʁɛ/ | vautrais /vo.tʁɛ/ | vautrait /vo.tʁɛ/ | vautrions /vo.tʁi.jɔ̃/ | vautriez /vo.tʁi.je/ | vautraient /vo.tʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | vautrai /vo.tʁe/ | vautras /vo.tʁa/ | vautra /vo.tʁa/ | vautrâmes /vo.tʁam/ | vautrâtes /vo.tʁat/ | vautrèrent /vo.tʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | vautrerai /vo.tʁə.ʁe/ | vautreras /vo.tʁə.ʁa/ | vautrera /vo.tʁə.ʁa/ | vautrerons /vo.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | vautrerez /vo.tʁə.ʁe/ | vautreront /vo.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | vautrerais /vo.tʁə.ʁɛ/ | vautrerais /vo.tʁə.ʁɛ/ | vautrerait /vo.tʁə.ʁɛ/ | vautrerions /vo.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ | vautreriez /vo.tʁə.ʁje/ | vautreraient /vo.tʁə.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 | vautre /votʁ/ | vautres /votʁ/ | vautre /votʁ/ | vautrions /vo.tʁi.jɔ̃/ | vautriez /vo.tʁi.je/ | vautrent /votʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | vautrasse /vo.tʁas/ | vautrasses /vo.tʁas/ | vautrât /vo.tʁa/ | vautrassions /vo.tʁa.sjɔ̃/ | vautrassiez /vo.tʁa.sje/ | vautrassent /vo.tʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | vautre /votʁ/ | — | vautrons /vo.tʁɔ̃/ | vautrez /vo.tʁe/ | — | |
| 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
- “vautrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.