ardoiser

French

Etymology

From ardoise +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

ardoiser

1. to cover with slates (or with a slate colour)
2. to put it on the slate (pay with an informal credit account)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ardoiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ardoiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ardoisant /aʁ.dwa.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ardoisé /aʁ.dwa.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ardoise /aʁ.dwaz/	ardoises /aʁ.dwaz/	ardoise /aʁ.dwaz/	ardoisons /aʁ.dwa.zɔ̃/	ardoisez /aʁ.dwa.ze/	ardoisent /aʁ.dwaz/
	imperfect	ardoisais /aʁ.dwa.zɛ/	ardoisais /aʁ.dwa.zɛ/	ardoisait /aʁ.dwa.zɛ/	ardoisions /aʁ.dwa.zjɔ̃/	ardoisiez /aʁ.dwa.zje/	ardoisaient /aʁ.dwa.zɛ/
	past historic2	ardoisai /aʁ.dwa.ze/	ardoisas /aʁ.dwa.za/	ardoisa /aʁ.dwa.za/	ardoisâmes /aʁ.dwa.zam/	ardoisâtes /aʁ.dwa.zat/	ardoisèrent /aʁ.dwa.zɛʁ/
	future	ardoiserai /aʁ.dwaz.ʁe/	ardoiseras /aʁ.dwaz.ʁa/	ardoisera /aʁ.dwaz.ʁa/	ardoiserons /aʁ.dwaz.ʁɔ̃/	ardoiserez /aʁ.dwaz.ʁe/	ardoiseront /aʁ.dwaz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ardoiserais /aʁ.dwaz.ʁɛ/	ardoiserais /aʁ.dwaz.ʁɛ/	ardoiserait /aʁ.dwaz.ʁɛ/	ardoiserions /aʁ.dwa.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	ardoiseriez /aʁ.dwa.zə.ʁje/	ardoiseraient /aʁ.dwaz.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	ardoise /aʁ.dwaz/	ardoises /aʁ.dwaz/	ardoise /aʁ.dwaz/	ardoisions /aʁ.dwa.zjɔ̃/	ardoisiez /aʁ.dwa.zje/	ardoisent /aʁ.dwaz/
	imperfect2	ardoisasse /aʁ.dwa.zas/	ardoisasses /aʁ.dwa.zas/	ardoisât /aʁ.dwa.za/	ardoisassions /aʁ.dwa.za.sjɔ̃/	ardoisassiez /aʁ.dwa.za.sje/	ardoisassent /aʁ.dwa.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ardoise /aʁ.dwaz/	—	ardoisons /aʁ.dwa.zɔ̃/	ardoisez /aʁ.dwa.ze/	—
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

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