ferrouter

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

ferrouter

1. to piggyback (transport a lorry on a train)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ferrouter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ferrouter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ferroutant /fɛ.ʁu.tɑ̃/ or /fe.ʁu.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ferrouté /fɛ.ʁu.te/ or /fe.ʁu.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ferroute /fɛ.ʁut/ or /fe.ʁut/	ferroutes /fɛ.ʁut/ or /fe.ʁut/	ferroute /fɛ.ʁut/ or /fe.ʁut/	ferroutons /fɛ.ʁu.tɔ̃/ or /fe.ʁu.tɔ̃/	ferroutez /fɛ.ʁu.te/ or /fe.ʁu.te/	ferroutent /fɛ.ʁut/ or /fe.ʁut/
	imperfect	ferroutais /fɛ.ʁu.tɛ/ or /fe.ʁu.tɛ/	ferroutais /fɛ.ʁu.tɛ/ or /fe.ʁu.tɛ/	ferroutait /fɛ.ʁu.tɛ/ or /fe.ʁu.tɛ/	ferroutions /fɛ.ʁu.tjɔ̃/ or /fe.ʁu.tjɔ̃/	ferroutiez /fɛ.ʁu.tje/ or /fe.ʁu.tje/	ferroutaient /fɛ.ʁu.tɛ/ or /fe.ʁu.tɛ/
	past historic2	ferroutai /fɛ.ʁu.te/ or /fe.ʁu.te/	ferroutas /fɛ.ʁu.ta/ or /fe.ʁu.ta/	ferrouta /fɛ.ʁu.ta/ or /fe.ʁu.ta/	ferroutâmes /fɛ.ʁu.tam/ or /fe.ʁu.tam/	ferroutâtes /fɛ.ʁu.tat/ or /fe.ʁu.tat/	ferroutèrent /fɛ.ʁu.tɛʁ/ or /fe.ʁu.tɛʁ/
	future	ferrouterai /fɛ.ʁu.tʁe/ or /fe.ʁu.tʁe/	ferrouteras /fɛ.ʁu.tʁa/ or /fe.ʁu.tʁa/	ferroutera /fɛ.ʁu.tʁa/ or /fe.ʁu.tʁa/	ferrouterons /fɛ.ʁu.tʁɔ̃/ or /fe.ʁu.tʁɔ̃/	ferrouterez /fɛ.ʁu.tʁe/ or /fe.ʁu.tʁe/	ferrouteront /fɛ.ʁu.tʁɔ̃/ or /fe.ʁu.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ferrouterais /fɛ.ʁu.tʁɛ/ or /fe.ʁu.tʁɛ/	ferrouterais /fɛ.ʁu.tʁɛ/ or /fe.ʁu.tʁɛ/	ferrouterait /fɛ.ʁu.tʁɛ/ or /fe.ʁu.tʁɛ/	ferrouterions /fɛ.ʁu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /fe.ʁu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	ferrouteriez /fɛ.ʁu.tə.ʁje/ or /fe.ʁu.tə.ʁje/	ferrouteraient /fɛ.ʁu.tʁɛ/ or /fe.ʁu.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	ferroute /fɛ.ʁut/ or /fe.ʁut/	ferroutes /fɛ.ʁut/ or /fe.ʁut/	ferroute /fɛ.ʁut/ or /fe.ʁut/	ferroutions /fɛ.ʁu.tjɔ̃/ or /fe.ʁu.tjɔ̃/	ferroutiez /fɛ.ʁu.tje/ or /fe.ʁu.tje/	ferroutent /fɛ.ʁut/ or /fe.ʁut/
	imperfect2	ferroutasse /fɛ.ʁu.tas/ or /fe.ʁu.tas/	ferroutasses /fɛ.ʁu.tas/ or /fe.ʁu.tas/	ferroutât /fɛ.ʁu.ta/ or /fe.ʁu.ta/	ferroutassions /fɛ.ʁu.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /fe.ʁu.ta.sjɔ̃/	ferroutassiez /fɛ.ʁu.ta.sje/ or /fe.ʁu.ta.sje/	ferroutassent /fɛ.ʁu.tas/ or /fe.ʁu.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ferroute /fɛ.ʁut/ or /fe.ʁut/	—	ferroutons /fɛ.ʁu.tɔ̃/ or /fe.ʁu.tɔ̃/	ferroutez /fɛ.ʁu.te/ or /fe.ʁu.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

• ferroutage