rôder
See also: roder
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Occitan rodar, from Latin rotāre. Doublet of rouer.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
rôder
- to loiter, prowl, move about suspiciously or hostilely
- to wander
- 1877, Victor Hugo, chapter 8, in L’Art d’être grand-père[1], Calmann-Lévy, page 25:
- On voit rôder l’abeille à jeun, La guêpe court, le frelon guette ;
- We see the fasting bee wandering, The wasp runs, the hornet lies in wait;
- Misspelling of roder.
- 1995, Terry Pratchett, translated by Patrick Couton, Trois Sœurcières, Pocket, translation of Wyrd Sisters, published 1999, →ISBN, page 10:
- Elle avait passé des années à moisir en province, à jouer les secondes rafales, à se rôder, […]
- [original: It [a storm] had spent years hanging around the provinces, putting in some useful work as a squall, building up experience, […]]
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of rôder (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rôder | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rôdant /ʁo.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rôdé /ʁo.de/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rôde /ʁod/ |
rôdes /ʁod/ |
rôde /ʁod/ |
rôdons /ʁo.dɔ̃/ |
rôdez /ʁo.de/ |
rôdent /ʁod/ |
| imperfect | rôdais /ʁo.dɛ/ |
rôdais /ʁo.dɛ/ |
rôdait /ʁo.dɛ/ |
rôdions /ʁo.djɔ̃/ |
rôdiez /ʁo.dje/ |
rôdaient /ʁo.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rôdai /ʁo.de/ |
rôdas /ʁo.da/ |
rôda /ʁo.da/ |
rôdâmes /ʁo.dam/ |
rôdâtes /ʁo.dat/ |
rôdèrent /ʁo.dɛʁ/ | |
| future | rôderai /ʁo.dʁe/ |
rôderas /ʁo.dʁa/ |
rôdera /ʁo.dʁa/ |
rôderons /ʁo.dʁɔ̃/ |
rôderez /ʁo.dʁe/ |
rôderont /ʁo.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rôderais /ʁo.dʁɛ/ |
rôderais /ʁo.dʁɛ/ |
rôderait /ʁo.dʁɛ/ |
rôderions /ʁo.də.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rôderiez /ʁo.də.ʁje/ |
rôderaient /ʁo.dʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | rôde /ʁod/ |
rôdes /ʁod/ |
rôde /ʁod/ |
rôdions /ʁo.djɔ̃/ |
rôdiez /ʁo.dje/ |
rôdent /ʁod/ |
| imperfect2 | rôdasse /ʁo.das/ |
rôdasses /ʁo.das/ |
rôdât /ʁo.da/ |
rôdassions /ʁo.da.sjɔ̃/ |
rôdassiez /ʁo.da.sje/ |
rôdassent /ʁo.das/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rôde /ʁod/ |
— | rôdons /ʁo.dɔ̃/ |
rôdez /ʁo.de/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “rôder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.