clouter
English
Etymology
From Middle English clowter; equivalent to clout + -er.
Noun
clouter (plural clouters)
Derived terms
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French
Etymology
From clou (“nail”) + -t- (euphonic consonant) + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klu.te/
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Verb
clouter
Conjugation
Conjugation of clouter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | clouter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cloutant /klu.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | clouté /klu.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cloute /klut/ |
cloutes /klut/ |
cloute /klut/ |
cloutons /klu.tɔ̃/ |
cloutez /klu.te/ |
cloutent /klut/ |
| imperfect | cloutais /klu.tɛ/ |
cloutais /klu.tɛ/ |
cloutait /klu.tɛ/ |
cloutions /klu.tjɔ̃/ |
cloutiez /klu.tje/ |
cloutaient /klu.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cloutai /klu.te/ |
cloutas /klu.ta/ |
clouta /klu.ta/ |
cloutâmes /klu.tam/ |
cloutâtes /klu.tat/ |
cloutèrent /klu.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | clouterai /klu.tʁe/ |
clouteras /klu.tʁa/ |
cloutera /klu.tʁa/ |
clouterons /klu.tʁɔ̃/ |
clouterez /klu.tʁe/ |
clouteront /klu.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | clouterais /klu.tʁɛ/ |
clouterais /klu.tʁɛ/ |
clouterait /klu.tʁɛ/ |
clouterions /klu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
clouteriez /klu.tə.ʁje/ |
clouteraient /klu.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 | cloute /klut/ |
cloutes /klut/ |
cloute /klut/ |
cloutions /klu.tjɔ̃/ |
cloutiez /klu.tje/ |
cloutent /klut/ |
| imperfect2 | cloutasse /klu.tas/ |
cloutasses /klu.tas/ |
cloutât /klu.ta/ |
cloutassions /klu.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
cloutassiez /klu.ta.sje/ |
cloutassent /klu.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cloute /klut/ |
— | cloutons /klu.tɔ̃/ |
cloutez /klu.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “clouter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.