vadrouiller
French
Etymology
From vadrouille (“mop”) + -er. Seemingly after its being moved here and there in a (more or less) haphazard fashion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va.dʁu.je/
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Verb
vadrouiller
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(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.