virevolter

French

Etymology

From virevolte +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viʁ.vɔl.te/

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Verb

virevolter

1. to twirl, spin around, loop around

Conjugation

Conjugation of virevolter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	virevolter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	virevoltant /viʁ.vɔl.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		virevolté /viʁ.vɔl.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	virevolte /viʁ.vɔlt/	virevoltes /viʁ.vɔlt/	virevolte /viʁ.vɔlt/	virevoltons /viʁ.vɔl.tɔ̃/	virevoltez /viʁ.vɔl.te/	virevoltent /viʁ.vɔlt/
	imperfect	virevoltais /viʁ.vɔl.tɛ/	virevoltais /viʁ.vɔl.tɛ/	virevoltait /viʁ.vɔl.tɛ/	virevoltions /viʁ.vɔl.tjɔ̃/	virevoltiez /viʁ.vɔl.tje/	virevoltaient /viʁ.vɔl.tɛ/
	past historic2	virevoltai /viʁ.vɔl.te/	virevoltas /viʁ.vɔl.ta/	virevolta /viʁ.vɔl.ta/	virevoltâmes /viʁ.vɔl.tam/	virevoltâtes /viʁ.vɔl.tat/	virevoltèrent /viʁ.vɔl.tɛʁ/
	future	virevolterai /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁe/	virevolteras /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁa/	virevoltera /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁa/	virevolterons /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁɔ̃/	virevolterez /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁe/	virevolteront /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	virevolterais /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁɛ/	virevolterais /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁɛ/	virevolterait /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁɛ/	virevolterions /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	virevolteriez /viʁ.vɔl.tə.ʁje/	virevolteraient /viʁ.vɔl.tə.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	virevolte /viʁ.vɔlt/	virevoltes /viʁ.vɔlt/	virevolte /viʁ.vɔlt/	virevoltions /viʁ.vɔl.tjɔ̃/	virevoltiez /viʁ.vɔl.tje/	virevoltent /viʁ.vɔlt/
	imperfect2	virevoltasse /viʁ.vɔl.tas/	virevoltasses /viʁ.vɔl.tas/	virevoltât /viʁ.vɔl.ta/	virevoltassions /viʁ.vɔl.ta.sjɔ̃/	virevoltassiez /viʁ.vɔl.ta.sje/	virevoltassent /viʁ.vɔl.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	virevolte /viʁ.vɔlt/	—	virevoltons /viʁ.vɔl.tɔ̃/	virevoltez /viʁ.vɔl.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: 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

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