ballotter
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.lɔ.te/
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Verb
ballotter
- (transitive) to toss (around), to jolt
- (transitive or intransitive, archaic) to ballot: to vote using a ballot
- 1793, National Convention, Acte constitutionnel [Constitutional Act], Paris: Imprimerie de P. L. Siret, page 9:
- En cas d'égalité de voix, le plus âgé a la préférence, soit pour être ballotté, soit pour être élu.
- In case of an equality of votes, the most aged has the preference, whether [as the one] to be voted [for] or [as the one] to be elected.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of ballotter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ballotter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | ballottant /ba.lɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ballotté /ba.lɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | ballotte /ba.lɔt/ | ballottes /ba.lɔt/ | ballotte /ba.lɔt/ | ballottons /ba.lɔ.tɔ̃/ | ballottez /ba.lɔ.te/ | ballottent /ba.lɔt/ |
| imperfect | ballottais /ba.lɔ.tɛ/ | ballottais /ba.lɔ.tɛ/ | ballottait /ba.lɔ.tɛ/ | ballottions /ba.lɔ.tjɔ̃/ | ballottiez /ba.lɔ.tje/ | ballottaient /ba.lɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ballottai /ba.lɔ.te/ | ballottas /ba.lɔ.ta/ | ballotta /ba.lɔ.ta/ | ballottâmes /ba.lɔ.tam/ | ballottâtes /ba.lɔ.tat/ | ballottèrent /ba.lɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | ballotterai /ba.lɔ.tʁe/ | ballotteras /ba.lɔ.tʁa/ | ballottera /ba.lɔ.tʁa/ | ballotterons /ba.lɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | ballotterez /ba.lɔ.tʁe/ | ballotteront /ba.lɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ballotterais /ba.lɔ.tʁɛ/ | ballotterais /ba.lɔ.tʁɛ/ | ballotterait /ba.lɔ.tʁɛ/ | ballotterions /ba.lɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | ballotteriez /ba.lɔ.tə.ʁje/ | ballotteraient /ba.lɔ.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | ballotte /ba.lɔt/ | ballottes /ba.lɔt/ | ballotte /ba.lɔt/ | ballottions /ba.lɔ.tjɔ̃/ | ballottiez /ba.lɔ.tje/ | ballottent /ba.lɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | ballottasse /ba.lɔ.tas/ | ballottasses /ba.lɔ.tas/ | ballottât /ba.lɔ.ta/ | ballottassions /ba.lɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ | ballottassiez /ba.lɔ.ta.sje/ | ballottassent /ba.lɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ballotte /ba.lɔt/ | — | ballottons /ba.lɔ.tɔ̃/ | ballottez /ba.lɔ.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
- “ballotter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.