trouer
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁu.e/
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Verb
trouer
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(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.