arroser
See also: arrôser
French
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *arrōsāre, from Latin rōs (“dew”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ʁo.ze/
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Verb
arroser
- to water (e.g. plants)
- J'arrose mes beaux tournesols ― I water my beautiful sunflowers
- to sprinkle
- to squirt
- to spray
- arroser de balles ― spray with bullets
- to celebrate (with a drink)
- arroser une victoire ― to celebrate a victory (by drinking)
- to grease someone's palm, to bribe
Conjugation
Conjugation of arroser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | arroser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | arrosant /a.ʁo.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | arrosé /a.ʁo.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | arrose /a.ʁoz/ |
arroses /a.ʁoz/ |
arrose /a.ʁoz/ |
arrosons /a.ʁo.zɔ̃/ |
arrosez /a.ʁo.ze/ |
arrosent /a.ʁoz/ |
| imperfect | arrosais /a.ʁo.zɛ/ |
arrosais /a.ʁo.zɛ/ |
arrosait /a.ʁo.zɛ/ |
arrosions /a.ʁo.zjɔ̃/ |
arrosiez /a.ʁo.zje/ |
arrosaient /a.ʁo.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | arrosai /a.ʁo.ze/ |
arrosas /a.ʁo.za/ |
arrosa /a.ʁo.za/ |
arrosâmes /a.ʁo.zam/ |
arrosâtes /a.ʁo.zat/ |
arrosèrent /a.ʁo.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | arroserai /a.ʁoz.ʁe/ |
arroseras /a.ʁoz.ʁa/ |
arrosera /a.ʁoz.ʁa/ |
arroserons /a.ʁoz.ʁɔ̃/ |
arroserez /a.ʁoz.ʁe/ |
arroseront /a.ʁoz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | arroserais /a.ʁoz.ʁɛ/ |
arroserais /a.ʁoz.ʁɛ/ |
arroserait /a.ʁoz.ʁɛ/ |
arroserions /a.ʁo.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
arroseriez /a.ʁo.zə.ʁje/ |
arroseraient /a.ʁoz.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 | arrose /a.ʁoz/ |
arroses /a.ʁoz/ |
arrose /a.ʁoz/ |
arrosions /a.ʁo.zjɔ̃/ |
arrosiez /a.ʁo.zje/ |
arrosent /a.ʁoz/ |
| imperfect2 | arrosasse /a.ʁo.zas/ |
arrosasses /a.ʁo.zas/ |
arrosât /a.ʁo.za/ |
arrosassions /a.ʁo.za.sjɔ̃/ |
arrosassiez /a.ʁo.za.sje/ |
arrosassent /a.ʁo.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | arrose /a.ʁoz/ |
— | arrosons /a.ʁo.zɔ̃/ |
arrosez /a.ʁo.ze/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “arroser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.