bluter

See also: Bluter

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French buleter, beluter, from Middle High German biuteln, biūtel, from Old High German butil (“pouch, bag”), from Proto-Germanic *buzdô (“beetle, grub, swelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūs- (“to move quickly”). Cognate with Dutch buidel; compare also Galician barutar and Italian burattare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bly.te/

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Verb

bluter

1. to sift, to sieve, especially the flour from the bran

Conjugation

Conjugation of bluter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bluter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	blutant /bly.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bluté /bly.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	blute /blyt/	blutes /blyt/	blute /blyt/	blutons /bly.tɔ̃/	blutez /bly.te/	blutent /blyt/
	imperfect	blutais /bly.tɛ/	blutais /bly.tɛ/	blutait /bly.tɛ/	blutions /bly.tjɔ̃/	blutiez /bly.tje/	blutaient /bly.tɛ/
	past historic2	blutai /bly.te/	blutas /bly.ta/	bluta /bly.ta/	blutâmes /bly.tam/	blutâtes /bly.tat/	blutèrent /bly.tɛʁ/
	future	bluterai /bly.tʁe/	bluteras /bly.tʁa/	blutera /bly.tʁa/	bluterons /bly.tʁɔ̃/	bluterez /bly.tʁe/	bluteront /bly.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bluterais /bly.tʁɛ/	bluterais /bly.tʁɛ/	bluterait /bly.tʁɛ/	bluterions /bly.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	bluteriez /bly.tə.ʁje/	bluteraient /bly.tʁɛ/
(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	blute /blyt/	blutes /blyt/	blute /blyt/	blutions /bly.tjɔ̃/	blutiez /bly.tje/	blutent /blyt/
	imperfect2	blutasse /bly.tas/	blutasses /bly.tas/	blutât /bly.ta/	blutassions /bly.ta.sjɔ̃/	blutassiez /bly.ta.sje/	blutassent /bly.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	blute /blyt/	—	blutons /bly.tɔ̃/	blutez /bly.te/	—
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).

Derived terms

• blutage (“sifting”)
• bluteau (“sifter”)
• blutoir (“sifter”)

Further reading

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