violer
English
Etymology
viol + -er
Noun
violer (plural violers)
- (archaic) A musician who plays the viol.
Anagrams
- Oliver, oliver, virole
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin violō (“to treat with violence; to maltreat; to violate, to defile, to profane”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vjɔ.le/
audio (file) - Homophones: violé, violés, violée, violées, violez, violai
Verb
violer
- (transitive) to violate
- (transitive) to rape, to have sex with an unwilling partner
Conjugation
Conjugation of violer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | violer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | violant /vjɔ.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | violé /vjɔ.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | viole /vjɔl/ | violes /vjɔl/ | viole /vjɔl/ | violons /vjɔ.lɔ̃/ | violez /vjɔ.le/ | violent /vjɔl/ |
| imperfect | violais /vjɔ.lɛ/ | violais /vjɔ.lɛ/ | violait /vjɔ.lɛ/ | violions /vjɔ.ljɔ̃/ | violiez /vjɔ.lje/ | violaient /vjɔ.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | violai /vjɔ.le/ | violas /vjɔ.la/ | viola /vjɔ.la/ | violâmes /vjɔ.lam/ | violâtes /vjɔ.lat/ | violèrent /vjɔ.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | violerai /vjɔl.ʁe/ | violeras /vjɔl.ʁa/ | violera /vjɔl.ʁa/ | violerons /vjɔl.ʁɔ̃/ | violerez /vjɔl.ʁe/ | violeront /vjɔl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | violerais /vjɔl.ʁɛ/ | violerais /vjɔl.ʁɛ/ | violerait /vjɔl.ʁɛ/ | violerions /vjɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ | violeriez /vjɔ.lə.ʁje/ | violeraient /vjɔl.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 | viole /vjɔl/ | violes /vjɔl/ | viole /vjɔl/ | violions /vjɔ.ljɔ̃/ | violiez /vjɔ.lje/ | violent /vjɔl/ |
| imperfect2 | violasse /vjɔ.las/ | violasses /vjɔ.las/ | violât /vjɔ.la/ | violassions /vjɔ.la.sjɔ̃/ | violassiez /vjɔ.la.sje/ | violassent /vjɔ.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | viole /vjɔl/ | — | violons /vjɔ.lɔ̃/ | violez /vjɔ.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). | |||||||
Related terms
- viol
- violateur
- violeur/violeuse
Further reading
- “violer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- voiler
Latin
Verb
violer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of violō