flouer
See also: Flouer
French edit
Etymology edit
Maybe ultimately from Latin fraudāre, fraudō. If this hypothesis is correct, it would make it a doublet of frauder.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
flouer
- (transitive) to swindle, con
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of flouer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | flouer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | flouant /flu.ɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | floué /flu.e/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | floue /flu/ |
floues /flu/ |
floue /flu/ |
flouons /flu.ɔ̃/ |
flouez /flu.e/ |
flouent /flu/ |
| imperfect | flouais /flu.ɛ/ |
flouais /flu.ɛ/ |
flouait /flu.ɛ/ |
flouions /flu.jɔ̃/ |
flouiez /flu.je/ |
flouaient /flu.ɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | flouai /flu.e/ |
flouas /flu.a/ |
floua /flu.a/ |
flouâmes /flu.am/ |
flouâtes /flu.at/ |
flouèrent /flu.ɛʁ/ | |
| future | flouerai /flu.ʁe/ |
floueras /flu.ʁa/ |
flouera /flu.ʁa/ |
flouerons /flu.ʁɔ̃/ |
flouerez /flu.ʁe/ |
floueront /flu.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | flouerais /flu.ʁɛ/ |
flouerais /flu.ʁɛ/ |
flouerait /flu.ʁɛ/ |
flouerions /flu.ʁjɔ̃/ |
floueriez /flu.ʁje/ |
floueraient /flu.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 | floue /flu/ |
floues /flu/ |
floue /flu/ |
flouions /flu.jɔ̃/ |
flouiez /flu.je/ |
flouent /flu/ |
| imperfect2 | flouasse /flu.as/ |
flouasses /flu.as/ |
flouât /flu.a/ |
flouassions /flu.a.sjɔ̃/ |
flouassiez /flu.a.sje/ |
flouassent /flu.as/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | floue /flu/ |
— | flouons /flu.ɔ̃/ |
flouez /flu.e/ |
— | |
| 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 edit
- “flouer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Luxembourgish edit
Adjective edit
flouer
Scots edit
Noun edit
flouer (plural flouers)
- Alternative form of flour