sauter
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
sauter (plural sauters)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
sauter (third-person singular simple present sauters, present participle sautering, simple past and past participle sautered)
Etymology 3 edit
Due to American pronunciation.
Noun edit
sauter (uncountable)
- Misspelling of solder.
Verb edit
sauter (third-person singular simple present sauters, present participle sautering, simple past and past participle sautered)
- Misspelling of solder.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French, from Latin saltāre. Cognate with Spanish saltar.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
sauter
- (intransitive) to jump, leap
- Je saute sur mon lit. ― I'm jumping on my bed.
- (transitive) to jump over
- (transitive) to sauté
- (transitive, slang) to bang, hump, have sex with
- Je l’ai sauté(e) sur mon lit. ― I banged him/her on my bed.
- (transitive) to skip (pass from one step directly to a later step without going through the intervening ones)
- Leur fille est brillante, elle a sauté deux années.
- Their daughter is brilliant, she has skipped two years
- (intransitive) to explode
Conjugation edit
infinitive | simple | sauter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | sautant /so.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | sauté /so.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | saute /sot/ |
sautes /sot/ |
saute /sot/ |
sautons /so.tɔ̃/ |
sautez /so.te/ |
sautent /sot/ |
imperfect | sautais /so.tɛ/ |
sautais /so.tɛ/ |
sautait /so.tɛ/ |
sautions /so.tjɔ̃/ |
sautiez /so.tje/ |
sautaient /so.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | sautai /so.te/ |
sautas /so.ta/ |
sauta /so.ta/ |
sautâmes /so.tam/ |
sautâtes /so.tat/ |
sautèrent /so.tɛʁ/ | |
future | sauterai /so.tʁe/ |
sauteras /so.tʁa/ |
sautera /so.tʁa/ |
sauterons /so.tʁɔ̃/ |
sauterez /so.tʁe/ |
sauteront /so.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | sauterais /so.tʁɛ/ |
sauterais /so.tʁɛ/ |
sauterait /so.tʁɛ/ |
sauterions /so.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
sauteriez /so.tə.ʁje/ |
sauteraient /so.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 | saute /sot/ |
sautes /sot/ |
saute /sot/ |
sautions /so.tjɔ̃/ |
sautiez /so.tje/ |
sautent /sot/ |
imperfect2 | sautasse /so.tas/ |
sautasses /so.tas/ |
sautât /so.ta/ |
sautassions /so.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
sautassiez /so.ta.sje/ |
sautassent /so.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | saute /sot/ |
— | sautons /so.tɔ̃/ |
sautez /so.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). |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Turkish: sote (via past participle)
Further reading edit
- “sauter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
- psauter, psautere, psawter, psawtere, salter, sautyer, sawteer, sawter
- psalteer, psaltyre, psaulter, psaultier, saulter, sauteer, sautier, sautiere, sautir, sawghter, sawtar, sawtere, sawtier, sawtiere, sawtire, sawtur, sawtyre (Late Middle English)
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old French sautier, saltier, from Late Latin psaltērium, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion), replacing Old English psalter. Doublet of sauterie.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sauter (plural sauters)
- The Biblical book of Psalms; the section of the Bible containing psalms.
- A psalm (hymn in the Book of Psalms)
- A psalter; a book containing psalms and related material.
- A psaltery (lute-like string instrument)
Descendants edit
- English: psalter
References edit
- “sautē̆r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Old French, from Latin saltō, saltāre.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Verb edit
sauter
Scots edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sauter (plural sauters)
- salter (maker of salt)
- one who can do severe things