trouer

French

Etymology

From trou +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁu.e/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: trouai, troué, trouée, trouées, troués, trouez

Verb

trouer

1. to hole, pierce

Conjugation

Conjugation of trouer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	trouer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trouant /tʁu.ɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		troué /tʁu.e/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	troue /tʁu/	troues /tʁu/	troue /tʁu/	trouons /tʁu.ɔ̃/	trouez /tʁu.e/	trouent /tʁu/
	imperfect	trouais /tʁu.ɛ/	trouais /tʁu.ɛ/	trouait /tʁu.ɛ/	trouions /tʁu.jɔ̃/	trouiez /tʁu.je/	trouaient /tʁu.ɛ/
	past historic2	trouai /tʁu.e/	trouas /tʁu.a/	troua /tʁu.a/	trouâmes /tʁu.am/	trouâtes /tʁu.at/	trouèrent /tʁu.ɛʁ/
	future	trouerai /tʁu.ʁe/	troueras /tʁu.ʁa/	trouera /tʁu.ʁa/	trouerons /tʁu.ʁɔ̃/	trouerez /tʁu.ʁe/	troueront /tʁu.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trouerais /tʁu.ʁɛ/	trouerais /tʁu.ʁɛ/	trouerait /tʁu.ʁɛ/	trouerions /tʁu.ʁjɔ̃/	troueriez /tʁu.ʁje/	troueraient /tʁu.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	troue /tʁu/	troues /tʁu/	troue /tʁu/	trouions /tʁu.jɔ̃/	trouiez /tʁu.je/	trouent /tʁu/
	imperfect2	trouasse /tʁu.as/	trouasses /tʁu.as/	trouât /tʁu.a/	trouassions /tʁu.a.sjɔ̃/	trouassiez /tʁu.a.sje/	trouassent /tʁu.as/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	troue /tʁu/	—	trouons /tʁu.ɔ̃/	trouez /tʁu.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

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

Anagrams

• retour, router