vivoter
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vi.vɔ.te/
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Verb
vivoter
- (colloquial) to struggle, to get by, make ends meet (live without luxury)
Conjugation
Conjugation of vivoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | vivoter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | vivotant /vi.vɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | vivoté /vi.vɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | vivote /vi.vɔt/ |
vivotes /vi.vɔt/ |
vivote /vi.vɔt/ |
vivotons /vi.vɔ.tɔ̃/ |
vivotez /vi.vɔ.te/ |
vivotent /vi.vɔt/ |
| imperfect | vivotais /vi.vɔ.tɛ/ |
vivotais /vi.vɔ.tɛ/ |
vivotait /vi.vɔ.tɛ/ |
vivotions /vi.vɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
vivotiez /vi.vɔ.tje/ |
vivotaient /vi.vɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | vivotai /vi.vɔ.te/ |
vivotas /vi.vɔ.ta/ |
vivota /vi.vɔ.ta/ |
vivotâmes /vi.vɔ.tam/ |
vivotâtes /vi.vɔ.tat/ |
vivotèrent /vi.vɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | vivoterai /vi.vɔ.tʁe/ |
vivoteras /vi.vɔ.tʁa/ |
vivotera /vi.vɔ.tʁa/ |
vivoterons /vi.vɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
vivoterez /vi.vɔ.tʁe/ |
vivoteront /vi.vɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | vivoterais /vi.vɔ.tʁɛ/ |
vivoterais /vi.vɔ.tʁɛ/ |
vivoterait /vi.vɔ.tʁɛ/ |
vivoterions /vi.vɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vivoteriez /vi.vɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
vivoteraient /vi.vɔ.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 | vivote /vi.vɔt/ |
vivotes /vi.vɔt/ |
vivote /vi.vɔt/ |
vivotions /vi.vɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
vivotiez /vi.vɔ.tje/ |
vivotent /vi.vɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | vivotasse /vi.vɔ.tas/ |
vivotasses /vi.vɔ.tas/ |
vivotât /vi.vɔ.ta/ |
vivotassions /vi.vɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
vivotassiez /vi.vɔ.ta.sje/ |
vivotassent /vi.vɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | vivote /vi.vɔt/ |
— | vivotons /vi.vɔ.tɔ̃/ |
vivotez /vi.vɔ.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
- “vivoter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.