caoutchouter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ut.ʃu.te/

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Verb

caoutchouter

1. to coat with rubber
2. to decorate with rubber

Conjugation

Conjugation of caoutchouter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	caoutchouter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	caoutchoutant /ka.ut.ʃu.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		caoutchouté /ka.ut.ʃu.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	caoutchoute /ka.ut.ʃut/	caoutchoutes /ka.ut.ʃut/	caoutchoute /ka.ut.ʃut/	caoutchoutons /ka.ut.ʃu.tɔ̃/	caoutchoutez /ka.ut.ʃu.te/	caoutchoutent /ka.ut.ʃut/
	imperfect	caoutchoutais /ka.ut.ʃu.tɛ/	caoutchoutais /ka.ut.ʃu.tɛ/	caoutchoutait /ka.ut.ʃu.tɛ/	caoutchoutions /ka.ut.ʃu.tjɔ̃/	caoutchoutiez /ka.ut.ʃu.tje/	caoutchoutaient /ka.ut.ʃu.tɛ/
	past historic2	caoutchoutai /ka.ut.ʃu.te/	caoutchoutas /ka.ut.ʃu.ta/	caoutchouta /ka.ut.ʃu.ta/	caoutchoutâmes /ka.ut.ʃu.tam/	caoutchoutâtes /ka.ut.ʃu.tat/	caoutchoutèrent /ka.ut.ʃu.tɛʁ/
	future	caoutchouterai /ka.ut.ʃu.tʁe/	caoutchouteras /ka.ut.ʃu.tʁa/	caoutchoutera /ka.ut.ʃu.tʁa/	caoutchouterons /ka.ut.ʃu.tʁɔ̃/	caoutchouterez /ka.ut.ʃu.tʁe/	caoutchouteront /ka.ut.ʃu.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	caoutchouterais /ka.ut.ʃu.tʁɛ/	caoutchouterais /ka.ut.ʃu.tʁɛ/	caoutchouterait /ka.ut.ʃu.tʁɛ/	caoutchouterions /ka.ut.ʃu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	caoutchouteriez /ka.ut.ʃu.tə.ʁje/	caoutchouteraient /ka.ut.ʃu.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	caoutchoute /ka.ut.ʃut/	caoutchoutes /ka.ut.ʃut/	caoutchoute /ka.ut.ʃut/	caoutchoutions /ka.ut.ʃu.tjɔ̃/	caoutchoutiez /ka.ut.ʃu.tje/	caoutchoutent /ka.ut.ʃut/
	imperfect2	caoutchoutasse /ka.ut.ʃu.tas/	caoutchoutasses /ka.ut.ʃu.tas/	caoutchoutât /ka.ut.ʃu.ta/	caoutchoutassions /ka.ut.ʃu.ta.sjɔ̃/	caoutchoutassiez /ka.ut.ʃu.ta.sje/	caoutchoutassent /ka.ut.ʃu.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	caoutchoute /ka.ut.ʃut/	—	caoutchoutons /ka.ut.ʃu.tɔ̃/	caoutchoutez /ka.ut.ʃu.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).

Further reading

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