vivoter

French

Etymology

From vivre +‎ -oter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.vɔ.te/

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Verb

vivoter

1. (colloquial) to struggle, to get by, make ends meet (live without luxury)

Conjugation

Conjugation of vivoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vivoter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vivotant /vi.vɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vivoté /vi.vɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vivote /vi.vɔt/	vivotes /vi.vɔt/	vivote /vi.vɔt/	vivotons /vi.vɔ.tɔ̃/	vivotez /vi.vɔ.te/	vivotent /vi.vɔt/
	imperfect	vivotais /vi.vɔ.tɛ/	vivotais /vi.vɔ.tɛ/	vivotait /vi.vɔ.tɛ/	vivotions /vi.vɔ.tjɔ̃/	vivotiez /vi.vɔ.tje/	vivotaient /vi.vɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	vivotai /vi.vɔ.te/	vivotas /vi.vɔ.ta/	vivota /vi.vɔ.ta/	vivotâmes /vi.vɔ.tam/	vivotâtes /vi.vɔ.tat/	vivotèrent /vi.vɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	vivoterai /vi.vɔ.tʁe/	vivoteras /vi.vɔ.tʁa/	vivotera /vi.vɔ.tʁa/	vivoterons /vi.vɔ.tʁɔ̃/	vivoterez /vi.vɔ.tʁe/	vivoteront /vi.vɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vivoterais /vi.vɔ.tʁɛ/	vivoterais /vi.vɔ.tʁɛ/	vivoterait /vi.vɔ.tʁɛ/	vivoterions /vi.vɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	vivoteriez /vi.vɔ.tə.ʁje/	vivoteraient /vi.vɔ.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	vivote /vi.vɔt/	vivotes /vi.vɔt/	vivote /vi.vɔt/	vivotions /vi.vɔ.tjɔ̃/	vivotiez /vi.vɔ.tje/	vivotent /vi.vɔt/
	imperfect2	vivotasse /vi.vɔ.tas/	vivotasses /vi.vɔ.tas/	vivotât /vi.vɔ.ta/	vivotassions /vi.vɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	vivotassiez /vi.vɔ.ta.sje/	vivotassent /vi.vɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vivote /vi.vɔt/	—	vivotons /vi.vɔ.tɔ̃/	vivotez /vi.vɔ.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

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