goutter
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
goutter
- to drip (to fall one drop at a time)
Conjugation
Conjugation of goutter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | goutter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | gouttant /ɡu.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | goutté /ɡu.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | goutte /ɡut/ |
gouttes /ɡut/ |
goutte /ɡut/ |
gouttons /ɡu.tɔ̃/ |
gouttez /ɡu.te/ |
gouttent /ɡut/ |
| imperfect | gouttais /ɡu.tɛ/ |
gouttais /ɡu.tɛ/ |
gouttait /ɡu.tɛ/ |
gouttions /ɡu.tjɔ̃/ |
gouttiez /ɡu.tje/ |
gouttaient /ɡu.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | gouttai /ɡu.te/ |
gouttas /ɡu.ta/ |
goutta /ɡu.ta/ |
gouttâmes /ɡu.tam/ |
gouttâtes /ɡu.tat/ |
gouttèrent /ɡu.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | goutterai /ɡu.tʁe/ |
goutteras /ɡu.tʁa/ |
gouttera /ɡu.tʁa/ |
goutterons /ɡu.tʁɔ̃/ |
goutterez /ɡu.tʁe/ |
goutteront /ɡu.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | goutterais /ɡu.tʁɛ/ |
goutterais /ɡu.tʁɛ/ |
goutterait /ɡu.tʁɛ/ |
goutterions /ɡu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
goutteriez /ɡu.tə.ʁje/ |
goutteraient /ɡu.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 | goutte /ɡut/ |
gouttes /ɡut/ |
goutte /ɡut/ |
gouttions /ɡu.tjɔ̃/ |
gouttiez /ɡu.tje/ |
gouttent /ɡut/ |
| imperfect2 | gouttasse /ɡu.tas/ |
gouttasses /ɡu.tas/ |
gouttât /ɡu.ta/ |
gouttassions /ɡu.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
gouttassiez /ɡu.ta.sje/ |
gouttassent /ɡu.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | goutte /ɡut/ |
— | gouttons /ɡu.tɔ̃/ |
gouttez /ɡu.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “goutter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.