jouter
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French joster, from Vulgar Latin *iuxtāre, from Latin iuxtā (“close to”). See also jouxter.
Pronunciation
Verb
jouter
- (intransitive) to joust (participate in jousting)
Conjugation
Conjugation of jouter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | jouter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | joutant /ʒu.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | jouté /ʒu.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | joute /ʒut/ |
joutes /ʒut/ |
joute /ʒut/ |
joutons /ʒu.tɔ̃/ |
joutez /ʒu.te/ |
joutent /ʒut/ |
| imperfect | joutais /ʒu.tɛ/ |
joutais /ʒu.tɛ/ |
joutait /ʒu.tɛ/ |
joutions /ʒu.tjɔ̃/ |
joutiez /ʒu.tje/ |
joutaient /ʒu.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | joutai /ʒu.te/ |
joutas /ʒu.ta/ |
jouta /ʒu.ta/ |
joutâmes /ʒu.tam/ |
joutâtes /ʒu.tat/ |
joutèrent /ʒu.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | jouterai /ʒu.tʁe/ |
jouteras /ʒu.tʁa/ |
joutera /ʒu.tʁa/ |
jouterons /ʒu.tʁɔ̃/ |
jouterez /ʒu.tʁe/ |
jouteront /ʒu.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | jouterais /ʒu.tʁɛ/ |
jouterais /ʒu.tʁɛ/ |
jouterait /ʒu.tʁɛ/ |
jouterions /ʒu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
jouteriez /ʒu.tə.ʁje/ |
jouteraient /ʒu.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 | joute /ʒut/ |
joutes /ʒut/ |
joute /ʒut/ |
joutions /ʒu.tjɔ̃/ |
joutiez /ʒu.tje/ |
joutent /ʒut/ |
| imperfect2 | joutasse /ʒu.tas/ |
joutasses /ʒu.tas/ |
joutât /ʒu.ta/ |
joutassions /ʒu.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
joutassiez /ʒu.ta.sje/ |
joutassent /ʒu.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | joute /ʒut/ |
— | joutons /ʒu.tɔ̃/ |
joutez /ʒu.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
- “jouter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.