abluer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

abluer

1. (obsolete) to wash

Conjugation

Conjugation of abluer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	abluer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	abluant /a.bly.ɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ablué /a.bly.e/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ablue /a.bly/	ablues /a.bly/	ablue /a.bly/	abluons /a.bly.ɔ̃/	abluez /a.bly.e/	abluent /a.bly/
	imperfect	abluais /a.bly.ɛ/	abluais /a.bly.ɛ/	abluait /a.bly.ɛ/	abluions /a.bly.jɔ̃/	abluiez /a.bly.je/	abluaient /a.bly.ɛ/
	past historic2	abluai /a.bly.e/	abluas /a.bly.a/	ablua /a.bly.a/	abluâmes /a.bly.am/	abluâtes /a.bly.at/	abluèrent /a.bly.ɛʁ/
	future	abluerai /a.bly.ʁe/	ablueras /a.bly.ʁa/	abluera /a.bly.ʁa/	abluerons /a.bly.ʁɔ̃/	abluerez /a.bly.ʁe/	ablueront /a.bly.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	abluerais /a.bly.ʁɛ/	abluerais /a.bly.ʁɛ/	abluerait /a.bly.ʁɛ/	abluerions /a.bly.ʁjɔ̃/	ablueriez /a.bly.ʁje/	ablueraient /a.bly.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	ablue /a.bly/	ablues /a.bly/	ablue /a.bly/	abluions /a.bly.jɔ̃/	abluiez /a.bly.je/	abluent /a.bly/
	imperfect2	abluasse /a.bly.as/	abluasses /a.bly.as/	abluât /a.bly.a/	abluassions /a.bly.a.sjɔ̃/	abluassiez /a.bly.a.sje/	abluassent /a.bly.as/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ablue /a.bly/	—	abluons /a.bly.ɔ̃/	abluez /a.bly.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “abluer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• labeur