rabrouer

French

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Verb

rabrouer

1. to snub

Conjugation

Conjugation of rabrouer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rabrouer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rabrouant /ʁa.bʁu.ɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rabroué /ʁa.bʁu.e/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rabroue /ʁa.bʁu/	rabroues /ʁa.bʁu/	rabroue /ʁa.bʁu/	rabrouons /ʁa.bʁu.ɔ̃/	rabrouez /ʁa.bʁu.e/	rabrouent /ʁa.bʁu/
	imperfect	rabrouais /ʁa.bʁu.ɛ/	rabrouais /ʁa.bʁu.ɛ/	rabrouait /ʁa.bʁu.ɛ/	rabrouions /ʁa.bʁu.jɔ̃/	rabrouiez /ʁa.bʁu.je/	rabrouaient /ʁa.bʁu.ɛ/
	past historic2	rabrouai /ʁa.bʁu.e/	rabrouas /ʁa.bʁu.a/	rabroua /ʁa.bʁu.a/	rabrouâmes /ʁa.bʁu.am/	rabrouâtes /ʁa.bʁu.at/	rabrouèrent /ʁa.bʁu.ɛʁ/
	future	rabrouerai /ʁa.bʁu.ʁe/	rabroueras /ʁa.bʁu.ʁa/	rabrouera /ʁa.bʁu.ʁa/	rabrouerons /ʁa.bʁu.ʁɔ̃/	rabrouerez /ʁa.bʁu.ʁe/	rabroueront /ʁa.bʁu.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rabrouerais /ʁa.bʁu.ʁɛ/	rabrouerais /ʁa.bʁu.ʁɛ/	rabrouerait /ʁa.bʁu.ʁɛ/	rabrouerions /ʁa.bʁu.ʁjɔ̃/	rabroueriez /ʁa.bʁu.ʁje/	rabroueraient /ʁa.bʁu.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	rabroue /ʁa.bʁu/	rabroues /ʁa.bʁu/	rabroue /ʁa.bʁu/	rabrouions /ʁa.bʁu.jɔ̃/	rabrouiez /ʁa.bʁu.je/	rabrouent /ʁa.bʁu/
	imperfect2	rabrouasse /ʁa.bʁu.as/	rabrouasses /ʁa.bʁu.as/	rabrouât /ʁa.bʁu.a/	rabrouassions /ʁa.bʁu.a.sjɔ̃/	rabrouassiez /ʁa.bʁu.a.sje/	rabrouassent /ʁa.bʁu.as/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rabroue /ʁa.bʁu/	—	rabrouons /ʁa.bʁu.ɔ̃/	rabrouez /ʁa.bʁu.e/	—
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

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