virevolter
French
Etymology
virevolte + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /viʁ.vɔl.te/
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Verb
virevolter
- to twirl, spin around, loop around
Conjugation
Conjugation of virevolter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | virevolter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | virevoltant /viʁ.vɔl.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | virevolté /viʁ.vɔl.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | virevolte /viʁ.vɔlt/ | virevoltes /viʁ.vɔlt/ | virevolte /viʁ.vɔlt/ | virevoltons /viʁ.vɔl.tɔ̃/ | virevoltez /viʁ.vɔl.te/ | virevoltent /viʁ.vɔlt/ |
imperfect | virevoltais /viʁ.vɔl.tɛ/ | virevoltais /viʁ.vɔl.tɛ/ | virevoltait /viʁ.vɔl.tɛ/ | virevoltions /viʁ.vɔl.tjɔ̃/ | virevoltiez /viʁ.vɔl.tje/ | virevoltaient /viʁ.vɔl.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | virevoltai /viʁ.vɔl.te/ | virevoltas /viʁ.vɔl.ta/ | virevolta /viʁ.vɔl.ta/ | virevoltâmes /viʁ.vɔl.tam/ | virevoltâtes /viʁ.vɔl.tat/ | virevoltèrent /viʁ.vɔl.tɛʁ/ | |
future | virevolterai /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁe/ | virevolteras /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁa/ | virevoltera /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁa/ | virevolterons /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | virevolterez /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁe/ | virevolteront /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | virevolterais /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁɛ/ | virevolterais /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁɛ/ | virevolterait /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁɛ/ | virevolterions /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | virevolteriez /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁje/ | virevolteraient /viʁ.vɔl.tə.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 | virevolte /viʁ.vɔlt/ | virevoltes /viʁ.vɔlt/ | virevolte /viʁ.vɔlt/ | virevoltions /viʁ.vɔl.tjɔ̃/ | virevoltiez /viʁ.vɔl.tje/ | virevoltent /viʁ.vɔlt/ |
imperfect2 | virevoltasse /viʁ.vɔl.tas/ | virevoltasses /viʁ.vɔl.tas/ | virevoltât /viʁ.vɔl.ta/ | virevoltassions /viʁ.vɔl.ta.sjɔ̃/ | virevoltassiez /viʁ.vɔl.ta.sje/ | virevoltassent /viʁ.vɔl.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | virevolte /viʁ.vɔlt/ | — | virevoltons /viʁ.vɔl.tɔ̃/ | virevoltez /viʁ.vɔl.te/ | — | |
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
- “virevolter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.