alluder

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin allūdere (“to jest; to play with”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ly.de/

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Verb

alluder

1. to allude

Conjugation

Conjugation of alluder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	alluder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	alludant /a.ly.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		alludé /a.ly.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	allude /a.lyd/	alludes /a.lyd/	allude /a.lyd/	alludons /a.ly.dɔ̃/	alludez /a.ly.de/	alludent /a.lyd/
	imperfect	alludais /a.ly.dɛ/	alludais /a.ly.dɛ/	alludait /a.ly.dɛ/	alludions /a.ly.djɔ̃/	alludiez /a.ly.dje/	alludaient /a.ly.dɛ/
	past historic2	alludai /a.ly.de/	alludas /a.ly.da/	alluda /a.ly.da/	alludâmes /a.ly.dam/	alludâtes /a.ly.dat/	alludèrent /a.ly.dɛʁ/
	future	alluderai /a.ly.dʁe/	alluderas /a.ly.dʁa/	alludera /a.ly.dʁa/	alluderons /a.ly.dʁɔ̃/	alluderez /a.ly.dʁe/	alluderont /a.ly.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	alluderais /a.ly.dʁɛ/	alluderais /a.ly.dʁɛ/	alluderait /a.ly.dʁɛ/	alluderions /a.ly.də.ʁjɔ̃/	alluderiez /a.ly.də.ʁje/	alluderaient /a.ly.dʁɛ/
(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	allude /a.lyd/	alludes /a.lyd/	allude /a.lyd/	alludions /a.ly.djɔ̃/	alludiez /a.ly.dje/	alludent /a.lyd/
	imperfect2	alludasse /a.ly.das/	alludasses /a.ly.das/	alludât /a.ly.da/	alludassions /a.ly.da.sjɔ̃/	alludassiez /a.ly.da.sje/	alludassent /a.ly.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	allude /a.lyd/	—	alludons /a.ly.dɔ̃/	alludez /a.ly.de/	—
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

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