mazouter
French edit
Etymology edit
From mazout + -er, from Russian мазу́т (mazút).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
mazouter
- 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 edit
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “mazouter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.