mazouter

French

Etymology

From mazout +‎ -er, from Russian мазу́т (mazút).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.zu.te/

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Verb

mazouter

1. to pollute with petrol or oil
   • 2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays [Small Country]:

     Le génocide est une marée noire, ceux qui ne s’y sont pas noyés sont mazoutés à vie.

     Genocide is like an oil slick, those who don't drown get covered in oil for life.

Conjugation

Conjugation of mazouter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mazouter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mazoutant /ma.zu.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		mazouté /ma.zu.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mazoute /ma.zut/	mazoutes /ma.zut/	mazoute /ma.zut/	mazoutons /ma.zu.tɔ̃/	mazoutez /ma.zu.te/	mazoutent /ma.zut/
	imperfect	mazoutais /ma.zu.tɛ/	mazoutais /ma.zu.tɛ/	mazoutait /ma.zu.tɛ/	mazoutions /ma.zu.tjɔ̃/	mazoutiez /ma.zu.tje/	mazoutaient /ma.zu.tɛ/
	past historic2	mazoutai /ma.zu.te/	mazoutas /ma.zu.ta/	mazouta /ma.zu.ta/	mazoutâmes /ma.zu.tam/	mazoutâtes /ma.zu.tat/	mazoutèrent /ma.zu.tɛʁ/
	future	mazouterai /ma.zu.tʁe/	mazouteras /ma.zu.tʁa/	mazoutera /ma.zu.tʁa/	mazouterons /ma.zu.tʁɔ̃/	mazouterez /ma.zu.tʁe/	mazouteront /ma.zu.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mazouterais /ma.zu.tʁɛ/	mazouterais /ma.zu.tʁɛ/	mazouterait /ma.zu.tʁɛ/	mazouterions /ma.zu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	mazouteriez /ma.zu.tə.ʁje/	mazouteraient /ma.zu.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	mazoute /ma.zut/	mazoutes /ma.zut/	mazoute /ma.zut/	mazoutions /ma.zu.tjɔ̃/	mazoutiez /ma.zu.tje/	mazoutent /ma.zut/
	imperfect2	mazoutasse /ma.zu.tas/	mazoutasses /ma.zu.tas/	mazoutât /ma.zu.ta/	mazoutassions /ma.zu.ta.sjɔ̃/	mazoutassiez /ma.zu.ta.sje/	mazoutassent /ma.zu.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mazoute /ma.zut/	—	mazoutons /ma.zu.tɔ̃/	mazoutez /ma.zu.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

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