fouetter
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /fwɛ.te/, /fwe.te/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Rhymes: -e
- Homophones: fouettai, fouetté, fouettée, fouettées, fouettés, fouettez
Verb edit
fouetter
- (transitive) to beat with a whip
- (transitive, intransitive) to hit and sting like a whip
- (transitive) to whisk
- (transitive) to stimulate or urge into action
- (intransitive, slang) to stink
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of fouetter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fouetter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fouettant /fwɛ.tɑ̃/ or /fwe.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fouetté /fwɛ.te/ or /fwe.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | fouette /fwɛt/ |
fouettes /fwɛt/ |
fouette /fwɛt/ |
fouettons /fwɛ.tɔ̃/ or /fwe.tɔ̃/ |
fouettez /fwɛ.te/ or /fwe.te/ |
fouettent /fwɛt/ |
| imperfect | fouettais /fwɛ.tɛ/ or /fwe.tɛ/ |
fouettais /fwɛ.tɛ/ or /fwe.tɛ/ |
fouettait /fwɛ.tɛ/ or /fwe.tɛ/ |
fouettions /fwɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /fwe.tjɔ̃/ |
fouettiez /fwɛ.tje/ or /fwe.tje/ |
fouettaient /fwɛ.tɛ/ or /fwe.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fouettai /fwɛ.te/ or /fwe.te/ |
fouettas /fwɛ.ta/ or /fwe.ta/ |
fouetta /fwɛ.ta/ or /fwe.ta/ |
fouettâmes /fwɛ.tam/ or /fwe.tam/ |
fouettâtes /fwɛ.tat/ or /fwe.tat/ |
fouettèrent /fwɛ.tɛʁ/ or /fwe.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | fouetterai /fwɛ.tʁe/ or /fwe.tʁe/ |
fouetteras /fwɛ.tʁa/ or /fwe.tʁa/ |
fouettera /fwɛ.tʁa/ or /fwe.tʁa/ |
fouetterons /fwɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /fwe.tʁɔ̃/ |
fouetterez /fwɛ.tʁe/ or /fwe.tʁe/ |
fouetteront /fwɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /fwe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fouetterais /fwɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fwe.tʁɛ/ |
fouetterais /fwɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fwe.tʁɛ/ |
fouetterait /fwɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fwe.tʁɛ/ |
fouetterions /fwɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /fwe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fouetteriez /fwɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /fwe.tə.ʁje/ |
fouetteraient /fwɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fwe.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 | fouette /fwɛt/ |
fouettes /fwɛt/ |
fouette /fwɛt/ |
fouettions /fwɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /fwe.tjɔ̃/ |
fouettiez /fwɛ.tje/ or /fwe.tje/ |
fouettent /fwɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | fouettasse /fwɛ.tas/ or /fwe.tas/ |
fouettasses /fwɛ.tas/ or /fwe.tas/ |
fouettât /fwɛ.ta/ or /fwe.ta/ |
fouettassions /fwɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /fwe.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
fouettassiez /fwɛ.ta.sje/ or /fwe.ta.sje/ |
fouettassent /fwɛ.tas/ or /fwe.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fouette /fwɛt/ |
— | fouettons /fwɛ.tɔ̃/ or /fwe.tɔ̃/ |
fouettez /fwɛ.te/ or /fwe.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). | |||||||
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
Further reading edit
- “fouetter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman edit
Etymology edit
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Verb edit
fouetter
- (Jersey, transitive) to whip