voltiger
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian volteggiare.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
voltiger
- (intransitive) to flit, flutter
- (figurative) to flit about (a place) (en), flutter about (a place)
- (figurative) to get kicked out, chucked out
- (Louisiana) to fly, to take a plane
Conjugation edit
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written voltige- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.
Conjugation of voltiger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | voltiger | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | voltigeant /vɔl.ti.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | voltigé /vɔl.ti.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | voltige /vɔl.tiʒ/ |
voltiges /vɔl.tiʒ/ |
voltige /vɔl.tiʒ/ |
voltigeons /vɔl.ti.ʒɔ̃/ |
voltigez /vɔl.ti.ʒe/ |
voltigent /vɔl.tiʒ/ |
| imperfect | voltigeais /vɔl.ti.ʒɛ/ |
voltigeais /vɔl.ti.ʒɛ/ |
voltigeait /vɔl.ti.ʒɛ/ |
voltigions /vɔl.ti.ʒjɔ̃/ |
voltigiez /vɔl.ti.ʒje/ |
voltigeaient /vɔl.ti.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | voltigeai /vɔl.ti.ʒe/ |
voltigeas /vɔl.ti.ʒa/ |
voltigea /vɔl.ti.ʒa/ |
voltigeâmes /vɔl.ti.ʒam/ |
voltigeâtes /vɔl.ti.ʒat/ |
voltigèrent /vɔl.ti.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | voltigerai /vɔl.tiʒ.ʁe/ |
voltigeras /vɔl.tiʒ.ʁa/ |
voltigera /vɔl.tiʒ.ʁa/ |
voltigerons /vɔl.tiʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
voltigerez /vɔl.tiʒ.ʁe/ |
voltigeront /vɔl.tiʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | voltigerais /vɔl.tiʒ.ʁɛ/ |
voltigerais /vɔl.tiʒ.ʁɛ/ |
voltigerait /vɔl.tiʒ.ʁɛ/ |
voltigerions /vɔl.ti.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
voltigeriez /vɔl.ti.ʒə.ʁje/ |
voltigeraient /vɔl.tiʒ.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 | voltige /vɔl.tiʒ/ |
voltiges /vɔl.tiʒ/ |
voltige /vɔl.tiʒ/ |
voltigions /vɔl.ti.ʒjɔ̃/ |
voltigiez /vɔl.ti.ʒje/ |
voltigent /vɔl.tiʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | voltigeasse /vɔl.ti.ʒas/ |
voltigeasses /vɔl.ti.ʒas/ |
voltigeât /vɔl.ti.ʒa/ |
voltigeassions /vɔl.ti.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
voltigeassiez /vɔl.ti.ʒa.sje/ |
voltigeassent /vɔl.ti.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | voltige /vɔl.tiʒ/ |
— | voltigeons /vɔl.ti.ʒɔ̃/ |
voltigez /vɔl.ti.ʒe/ |
— | |
| 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
- voltiger
Further reading edit
- “voltiger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.