goutter

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

goutter

1. to drip (to fall one drop at a time)

Conjugation

Conjugation of goutter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	goutter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	gouttant /ɡu.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		goutté /ɡu.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	goutte /ɡut/	gouttes /ɡut/	goutte /ɡut/	gouttons /ɡu.tɔ̃/	gouttez /ɡu.te/	gouttent /ɡut/
	imperfect	gouttais /ɡu.tɛ/	gouttais /ɡu.tɛ/	gouttait /ɡu.tɛ/	gouttions /ɡu.tjɔ̃/	gouttiez /ɡu.tje/	gouttaient /ɡu.tɛ/
	past historic2	gouttai /ɡu.te/	gouttas /ɡu.ta/	goutta /ɡu.ta/	gouttâmes /ɡu.tam/	gouttâtes /ɡu.tat/	gouttèrent /ɡu.tɛʁ/
	future	goutterai /ɡu.tʁe/	goutteras /ɡu.tʁa/	gouttera /ɡu.tʁa/	goutterons /ɡu.tʁɔ̃/	goutterez /ɡu.tʁe/	goutteront /ɡu.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	goutterais /ɡu.tʁɛ/	goutterais /ɡu.tʁɛ/	goutterait /ɡu.tʁɛ/	goutterions /ɡu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	goutteriez /ɡu.tə.ʁje/	goutteraient /ɡu.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	goutte /ɡut/	gouttes /ɡut/	goutte /ɡut/	gouttions /ɡu.tjɔ̃/	gouttiez /ɡu.tje/	gouttent /ɡut/
	imperfect2	gouttasse /ɡu.tas/	gouttasses /ɡu.tas/	gouttât /ɡu.ta/	gouttassions /ɡu.ta.sjɔ̃/	gouttassiez /ɡu.ta.sje/	gouttassent /ɡu.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	goutte /ɡut/	—	gouttons /ɡu.tɔ̃/	gouttez /ɡu.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

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