vadrouiller

French

Etymology

From vadrouille (“walk, wander, stroll”, noun) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va.dʁu.je/

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Verb

vadrouiller

1. to gad about, loiter about, wander around

   Synonym: flâner

Conjugation

Conjugation of vadrouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vadrouiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vadrouillant /va.dʁu.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vadrouillé /va.dʁu.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vadrouille /va.dʁuj/	vadrouilles /va.dʁuj/	vadrouille /va.dʁuj/	vadrouillons /va.dʁu.jɔ̃/	vadrouillez /va.dʁu.je/	vadrouillent /va.dʁuj/
	imperfect	vadrouillais /va.dʁu.jɛ/	vadrouillais /va.dʁu.jɛ/	vadrouillait /va.dʁu.jɛ/	vadrouillions /va.dʁuj.jɔ̃/	vadrouilliez /va.dʁuj.je/	vadrouillaient /va.dʁu.jɛ/
	past historic2	vadrouillai /va.dʁu.je/	vadrouillas /va.dʁu.ja/	vadrouilla /va.dʁu.ja/	vadrouillâmes /va.dʁu.jam/	vadrouillâtes /va.dʁu.jat/	vadrouillèrent /va.dʁu.jɛʁ/
	future	vadrouillerai /va.dʁuj.ʁe/	vadrouilleras /va.dʁuj.ʁa/	vadrouillera /va.dʁuj.ʁa/	vadrouillerons /va.dʁuj.ʁɔ̃/	vadrouillerez /va.dʁuj.ʁe/	vadrouilleront /va.dʁuj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vadrouillerais /va.dʁuj.ʁɛ/	vadrouillerais /va.dʁuj.ʁɛ/	vadrouillerait /va.dʁuj.ʁɛ/	vadrouillerions /va.dʁu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	vadrouilleriez /va.dʁu.jə.ʁje/	vadrouilleraient /va.dʁuj.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	vadrouille /va.dʁuj/	vadrouilles /va.dʁuj/	vadrouille /va.dʁuj/	vadrouillions /va.dʁuj.jɔ̃/	vadrouilliez /va.dʁuj.je/	vadrouillent /va.dʁuj/
	imperfect2	vadrouillasse /va.dʁu.jas/	vadrouillasses /va.dʁu.jas/	vadrouillât /va.dʁu.ja/	vadrouillassions /va.dʁu.ja.sjɔ̃/	vadrouillassiez /va.dʁu.ja.sje/	vadrouillassent /va.dʁu.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vadrouille /va.dʁuj/	—	vadrouillons /va.dʁu.jɔ̃/	vadrouillez /va.dʁu.je/	—
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).

Derived terms

• vadrouilleur

Further reading

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