guerroyer

French edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old French guerroiier, from Vulgar Latin *werridiāre, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *werru. By surface analysis, guerre (“war”) +‎ -oyer.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ɡɛ.ʁwa.je/, /ɡe.ʁwa.je/
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Verb edit

guerroyer

to wage war
(figuratively) to hassle; to bother

Conjugation edit

This verb is part of a large group of -er verbs that conjugate like noyer or ennuyer. These verbs always replace the 'y' with an 'i' before a silent 'e'.

Conjugation of guerroyer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	guerroyer
present participle or gerund¹	simple	guerroyant /ɡɛ.ʁwa.jɑ̃/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.jɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		guerroyé /ɡɛ.ʁwa.je/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	guerroie /ɡɛ.ʁwa/ or /ɡe.ʁwa/	guerroies /ɡɛ.ʁwa/ or /ɡe.ʁwa/	guerroie /ɡɛ.ʁwa/ or /ɡe.ʁwa/	guerroyons /ɡɛ.ʁwa.jɔ̃/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.jɔ̃/	guerroyez /ɡɛ.ʁwa.je/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.je/	guerroient /ɡɛ.ʁwa/ or /ɡe.ʁwa/
	imperfect	guerroyais /ɡɛ.ʁwa.jɛ/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.jɛ/	guerroyais /ɡɛ.ʁwa.jɛ/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.jɛ/	guerroyait /ɡɛ.ʁwa.jɛ/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.jɛ/	guerroyions /ɡɛ.ʁwaj.jɔ̃/ or /ɡe.ʁwaj.jɔ̃/	guerroyiez /ɡɛ.ʁwaj.je/ or /ɡe.ʁwaj.je/	guerroyaient /ɡɛ.ʁwa.jɛ/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.jɛ/
	past historic²	guerroyai /ɡɛ.ʁwa.je/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.je/	guerroyas /ɡɛ.ʁwa.ja/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.ja/	guerroya /ɡɛ.ʁwa.ja/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.ja/	guerroyâmes /ɡɛ.ʁwa.jam/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.jam/	guerroyâtes /ɡɛ.ʁwa.jat/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.jat/	guerroyèrent /ɡɛ.ʁwa.jɛʁ/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.jɛʁ/
	future	guerroierai /ɡɛ.ʁwa.ʁe/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.ʁe/	guerroieras /ɡɛ.ʁwa.ʁa/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.ʁa/	guerroiera /ɡɛ.ʁwa.ʁa/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.ʁa/	guerroierons /ɡɛ.ʁwa.ʁɔ̃/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.ʁɔ̃/	guerroierez /ɡɛ.ʁwa.ʁe/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.ʁe/	guerroieront /ɡɛ.ʁwa.ʁɔ̃/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	guerroierais /ɡɛ.ʁwa.ʁɛ/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.ʁɛ/	guerroierais /ɡɛ.ʁwa.ʁɛ/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.ʁɛ/	guerroierait /ɡɛ.ʁwa.ʁɛ/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.ʁɛ/	guerroierions /ɡɛ.ʁwa.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.ʁjɔ̃/	guerroieriez /ɡɛ.ʁwa.ʁje/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.ʁje/	guerroieraient /ɡɛ.ʁwa.ʁɛ/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.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	guerroie /ɡɛ.ʁwa/ or /ɡe.ʁwa/	guerroies /ɡɛ.ʁwa/ or /ɡe.ʁwa/	guerroie /ɡɛ.ʁwa/ or /ɡe.ʁwa/	guerroyions /ɡɛ.ʁwaj.jɔ̃/ or /ɡe.ʁwaj.jɔ̃/	guerroyiez /ɡɛ.ʁwaj.je/ or /ɡe.ʁwaj.je/	guerroient /ɡɛ.ʁwa/ or /ɡe.ʁwa/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	guerroyasse /ɡɛ.ʁwa.jas/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.jas/	guerroyasses /ɡɛ.ʁwa.jas/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.jas/	guerroyât /ɡɛ.ʁwa.ja/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.ja/	guerroyassions /ɡɛ.ʁwa.ja.sjɔ̃/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.ja.sjɔ̃/	guerroyassiez /ɡɛ.ʁwa.ja.sje/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.ja.sje/	guerroyassent /ɡɛ.ʁwa.jas/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	guerroie /ɡɛ.ʁwa/ or /ɡe.ʁwa/	—	guerroyons /ɡɛ.ʁwa.jɔ̃/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.jɔ̃/	guerroyez /ɡɛ.ʁwa.je/ or /ɡe.ʁwa.je/	—
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 edit

guerroyeur