jouxter

French

Etymology

From jouxte, altered to reflect its etymology from Latin iūxta (“close to”). Cf. the related jouter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒuk.ste/

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Verb

jouxter

1. (literary) to be next to, to be adjoined to

   Synonym: avoisiner

Conjugation

Conjugation of jouxter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	jouxter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	jouxtant /ʒuk.stɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		jouxté /ʒuk.ste/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	jouxte /ʒukst/	jouxtes /ʒukst/	jouxte /ʒukst/	jouxtons /ʒuk.stɔ̃/	jouxtez /ʒuk.ste/	jouxtent /ʒukst/
	imperfect	jouxtais /ʒuk.stɛ/	jouxtais /ʒuk.stɛ/	jouxtait /ʒuk.stɛ/	jouxtions /ʒuk.stjɔ̃/	jouxtiez /ʒuk.stje/	jouxtaient /ʒuk.stɛ/
	past historic2	jouxtai /ʒuk.ste/	jouxtas /ʒuk.sta/	jouxta /ʒuk.sta/	jouxtâmes /ʒuk.stam/	jouxtâtes /ʒuk.stat/	jouxtèrent /ʒuk.stɛʁ/
	future	jouxterai /ʒuk.stə.ʁe/	jouxteras /ʒuk.stə.ʁa/	jouxtera /ʒuk.stə.ʁa/	jouxterons /ʒuk.stə.ʁɔ̃/	jouxterez /ʒuk.stə.ʁe/	jouxteront /ʒuk.stə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	jouxterais /ʒuk.stə.ʁɛ/	jouxterais /ʒuk.stə.ʁɛ/	jouxterait /ʒuk.stə.ʁɛ/	jouxterions /ʒuk.stə.ʁjɔ̃/	jouxteriez /ʒuk.stə.ʁje/	jouxteraient /ʒuk.stə.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	jouxte /ʒukst/	jouxtes /ʒukst/	jouxte /ʒukst/	jouxtions /ʒuk.stjɔ̃/	jouxtiez /ʒuk.stje/	jouxtent /ʒukst/
	imperfect2	jouxtasse /ʒuk.stas/	jouxtasses /ʒuk.stas/	jouxtât /ʒuk.sta/	jouxtassions /ʒuk.sta.sjɔ̃/	jouxtassiez /ʒuk.sta.sje/	jouxtassent /ʒuk.stas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	jouxte /ʒukst/	—	jouxtons /ʒuk.stɔ̃/	jouxtez /ʒuk.ste/	—
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

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