permuter

English

Etymology

permute +‎ -er

Noun

permuter (plural permuters)

1. One who permutes.

French

Etymology

From Latin permūtāre (“transform; exchange”) (Middle French: permuer/parmuer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛʁ.my.te/
• Homophones: permutai, permuté, permutée, permutées, permutés, permutez

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Verb

permuter

1. to swap
2. to permute

Conjugation

Conjugation of permuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	permuter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	permutant /pɛʁ.my.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		permuté /pɛʁ.my.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	permute /pɛʁ.myt/	permutes /pɛʁ.myt/	permute /pɛʁ.myt/	permutons /pɛʁ.my.tɔ̃/	permutez /pɛʁ.my.te/	permutent /pɛʁ.myt/
	imperfect	permutais /pɛʁ.my.tɛ/	permutais /pɛʁ.my.tɛ/	permutait /pɛʁ.my.tɛ/	permutions /pɛʁ.my.tjɔ̃/	permutiez /pɛʁ.my.tje/	permutaient /pɛʁ.my.tɛ/
	past historic2	permutai /pɛʁ.my.te/	permutas /pɛʁ.my.ta/	permuta /pɛʁ.my.ta/	permutâmes /pɛʁ.my.tam/	permutâtes /pɛʁ.my.tat/	permutèrent /pɛʁ.my.tɛʁ/
	future	permuterai /pɛʁ.my.tʁe/	permuteras /pɛʁ.my.tʁa/	permutera /pɛʁ.my.tʁa/	permuterons /pɛʁ.my.tʁɔ̃/	permuterez /pɛʁ.my.tʁe/	permuteront /pɛʁ.my.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	permuterais /pɛʁ.my.tʁɛ/	permuterais /pɛʁ.my.tʁɛ/	permuterait /pɛʁ.my.tʁɛ/	permuterions /pɛʁ.my.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	permuteriez /pɛʁ.my.tə.ʁje/	permuteraient /pɛʁ.my.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	permute /pɛʁ.myt/	permutes /pɛʁ.myt/	permute /pɛʁ.myt/	permutions /pɛʁ.my.tjɔ̃/	permutiez /pɛʁ.my.tje/	permutent /pɛʁ.myt/
	imperfect2	permutasse /pɛʁ.my.tas/	permutasses /pɛʁ.my.tas/	permutât /pɛʁ.my.ta/	permutassions /pɛʁ.my.ta.sjɔ̃/	permutassiez /pɛʁ.my.ta.sje/	permutassent /pɛʁ.my.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	permute /pɛʁ.myt/	—	permutons /pɛʁ.my.tɔ̃/	permutez /pɛʁ.my.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

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

Latin

Verb

permūter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of permūtō