rouler
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French ruele, roele (“small wheel”), from Medieval Latin rotulāre, from Latin rotula.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
rouler
- to roll
- to revolve
- (colloquial) to go (of events, to proceed)
- Ça roule bien chez mon ami.
- It's going well at my friend's house.
- (of a vehicle) to work, to function
- (intransitive) to ride; to drive (a vehicle)
- rouler à vélo sans les mains ― to ride a bike with no hands
- On a roulé à 80 km à l’heure. ― We were driving 80 km an hour.
- Il roule en Rolls ― He drives a Rolls.
- Elle roule dans un véhicule neuf. ― She drives a new vehicle.
- (colloquial) to dupe, to trick
- se faire rouler ― to be tricked, to be duped
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of rouler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rouler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | roulant /ʁu.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | roulé /ʁu.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | roule /ʁul/ |
roules /ʁul/ |
roule /ʁul/ |
roulons /ʁu.lɔ̃/ |
roulez /ʁu.le/ |
roulent /ʁul/ |
| imperfect | roulais /ʁu.lɛ/ |
roulais /ʁu.lɛ/ |
roulait /ʁu.lɛ/ |
roulions /ʁu.ljɔ̃/ |
rouliez /ʁu.lje/ |
roulaient /ʁu.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | roulai /ʁu.le/ |
roulas /ʁu.la/ |
roula /ʁu.la/ |
roulâmes /ʁu.lam/ |
roulâtes /ʁu.lat/ |
roulèrent /ʁu.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | roulerai /ʁul.ʁe/ |
rouleras /ʁul.ʁa/ |
roulera /ʁul.ʁa/ |
roulerons /ʁul.ʁɔ̃/ |
roulerez /ʁul.ʁe/ |
rouleront /ʁul.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | roulerais /ʁul.ʁɛ/ |
roulerais /ʁul.ʁɛ/ |
roulerait /ʁul.ʁɛ/ |
roulerions /ʁu.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rouleriez /ʁu.lə.ʁje/ |
rouleraient /ʁul.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 | roule /ʁul/ |
roules /ʁul/ |
roule /ʁul/ |
roulions /ʁu.ljɔ̃/ |
rouliez /ʁu.lje/ |
roulent /ʁul/ |
| imperfect2 | roulasse /ʁu.las/ |
roulasses /ʁu.las/ |
roulât /ʁu.la/ |
roulassions /ʁu.la.sjɔ̃/ |
roulassiez /ʁu.la.sje/ |
roulassent /ʁu.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | roule /ʁul/ |
— | roulons /ʁu.lɔ̃/ |
roulez /ʁu.le/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
- à se rouler par terre
- ça roule
- col roulé
- dérouler
- enrouler
- laissez les bons temps rouler
- pierre qui roule n’amasse pas mousse
- roulement
- rouler carrosse
- rouler dans la farine
- rouler des mécaniques
- rouler les mécaniques
- rouler sa bosse
- rouler sur l’or
- rouler un palot
- rouler un patin
- rouler une galoche
- rouler une pelle
- roulette
- rouleur
- roulez jeunesse
- roulure
Descendants edit
- Portuguese: rolar
Further reading edit
- “rouler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.