voleter
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɔl.te/
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Verb
voleter
- to flutter
Conjugation
With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.
Conjugation of voleter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | voleter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | voletant /vɔl.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | voleté /vɔl.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | volette or volète /vɔ.lɛt/ |
volettes or volètes /vɔ.lɛt/ |
volette or volète /vɔ.lɛt/ |
voletons /vɔl.tɔ̃/ |
voletez /vɔl.te/ |
volettent or volètent /vɔ.lɛt/ |
| imperfect | voletais /vɔl.tɛ/ |
voletais /vɔl.tɛ/ |
voletait /vɔl.tɛ/ |
voletions /vɔ.lə.tjɔ̃/ |
voletiez /vɔ.lə.tje/ |
voletaient /vɔl.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | voletai /vɔl.te/ |
voletas /vɔl.ta/ |
voleta /vɔl.ta/ |
voletâmes /vɔl.tam/ |
voletâtes /vɔl.tat/ |
voletèrent /vɔl.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | voletterai or volèterai /vɔ.lɛ.tʁe/ or /vɔ.le.tʁe/ |
voletteras or volèteras /vɔ.lɛ.tʁa/ or /vɔ.le.tʁa/ |
volettera or volètera /vɔ.lɛ.tʁa/ or /vɔ.le.tʁa/ |
voletterons or volèterons /vɔ.lɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /vɔ.le.tʁɔ̃/ |
voletterez or volèterez /vɔ.lɛ.tʁe/ or /vɔ.le.tʁe/ |
voletteront or volèteront /vɔ.lɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /vɔ.le.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | voletterais or volèterais /vɔ.lɛ.tʁɛ/ or /vɔ.le.tʁɛ/ |
voletterais or volèterais /vɔ.lɛ.tʁɛ/ or /vɔ.le.tʁɛ/ |
voletterait or volèterait /vɔ.lɛ.tʁɛ/ or /vɔ.le.tʁɛ/ |
voletterions or volèterions /vɔ.lɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /vɔ.le.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
voletteriez or volèteriez /vɔ.lɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /vɔ.le.tə.ʁje/ |
voletteraient or volèteraient /vɔ.lɛ.tʁɛ/ or /vɔ.le.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 | volette or volète /vɔ.lɛt/ |
volettes or volètes /vɔ.lɛt/ |
volette or volète /vɔ.lɛt/ |
voletions /vɔ.lə.tjɔ̃/ |
voletiez /vɔ.lə.tje/ |
volettent or volètent /vɔ.lɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | voletasse /vɔl.tas/ |
voletasses /vɔl.tas/ |
voletât /vɔl.ta/ |
voletassions /vɔl.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
voletassiez /vɔl.ta.sje/ |
voletassent /vɔl.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | volette or volète /vɔ.lɛt/ |
— | voletons /vɔl.tɔ̃/ |
voletez /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
- “voleter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.