voleter

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vɔl.te/
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Verb

voleter

to flutter

Conjugation

With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.

Conjugation of voleter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	voleter
present participle or gerund¹	simple	voletant /vɔl.tɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		voleté /vɔl.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	volette or volète /vɔ.lɛt/	volettes or volètes /vɔ.lɛt/	volette or volète /vɔ.lɛt/	voletons /vɔl.tɔ̃/	voletez /vɔl.te/	volettent or volètent /vɔ.lɛt/
	imperfect	voletais /vɔl.tɛ/	voletais /vɔl.tɛ/	voletait /vɔl.tɛ/	voletions /vɔ.lə.tjɔ̃/	voletiez /vɔ.lə.tje/	voletaient /vɔl.tɛ/
	past historic²	voletai /vɔl.te/	voletas /vɔl.ta/	voleta /vɔl.ta/	voletâmes /vɔl.tam/	voletâtes /vɔl.tat/	voletèrent /vɔl.tɛʁ/
	future	voletterai or volèterai /vɔ.lɛ.tʁe/ or /vɔ.le.tʁe/	voletteras or volèteras /vɔ.lɛ.tʁa/ or /vɔ.le.tʁa/	volettera or volètera /vɔ.lɛ.tʁa/ or /vɔ.le.tʁa/	voletterons or volèterons /vɔ.lɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /vɔ.le.tʁɔ̃/	voletterez or volèterez /vɔ.lɛ.tʁe/ or /vɔ.le.tʁe/	voletteront or volèteront /vɔ.lɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /vɔ.le.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	voletterais or volèterais /vɔ.lɛ.tʁɛ/ or /vɔ.le.tʁɛ/	voletterais or volèterais /vɔ.lɛ.tʁɛ/ or /vɔ.le.tʁɛ/	voletterait or volèterait /vɔ.lɛ.tʁɛ/ or /vɔ.le.tʁɛ/	voletterions or volèterions /vɔ.lɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /vɔ.le.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	voletteriez or volèteriez /vɔ.lɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /vɔ.le.tə.ʁje/	voletteraient or volèteraient /vɔ.lɛ.tʁɛ/ or /vɔ.le.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	volette or volète /vɔ.lɛt/	volettes or volètes /vɔ.lɛt/	volette or volète /vɔ.lɛt/	voletions /vɔ.lə.tjɔ̃/	voletiez /vɔ.lə.tje/	volettent or volètent /vɔ.lɛt/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	voletasse /vɔl.tas/	voletasses /vɔl.tas/	voletât /vɔl.ta/	voletassions /vɔl.ta.sjɔ̃/	voletassiez /vɔl.ta.sje/	voletassent /vɔl.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	volette or volète /vɔ.lɛt/	—	voletons /vɔl.tɔ̃/	voletez /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).

Anagrams

révolte, révolté