abouter

French

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.bu.te/

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Verb

abouter

1. to join, link, attach or tie together by their extremities
2. to align end-to-end; to abut

Conjugation

Conjugation of abouter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	abouter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	aboutant /a.bu.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		abouté /a.bu.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	aboute /a.but/	aboutes /a.but/	aboute /a.but/	aboutons /a.bu.tɔ̃/	aboutez /a.bu.te/	aboutent /a.but/
	imperfect	aboutais /a.bu.tɛ/	aboutais /a.bu.tɛ/	aboutait /a.bu.tɛ/	aboutions /a.bu.tjɔ̃/	aboutiez /a.bu.tje/	aboutaient /a.bu.tɛ/
	past historic2	aboutai /a.bu.te/	aboutas /a.bu.ta/	abouta /a.bu.ta/	aboutâmes /a.bu.tam/	aboutâtes /a.bu.tat/	aboutèrent /a.bu.tɛʁ/
	future	abouterai /a.bu.tʁe/	abouteras /a.bu.tʁa/	aboutera /a.bu.tʁa/	abouterons /a.bu.tʁɔ̃/	abouterez /a.bu.tʁe/	abouteront /a.bu.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	abouterais /a.bu.tʁɛ/	abouterais /a.bu.tʁɛ/	abouterait /a.bu.tʁɛ/	abouterions /a.bu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	abouteriez /a.bu.tə.ʁje/	abouteraient /a.bu.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	aboute /a.but/	aboutes /a.but/	aboute /a.but/	aboutions /a.bu.tjɔ̃/	aboutiez /a.bu.tje/	aboutent /a.but/
	imperfect2	aboutasse /a.bu.tas/	aboutasses /a.bu.tas/	aboutât /a.bu.ta/	aboutassions /a.bu.ta.sjɔ̃/	aboutassiez /a.bu.ta.sje/	aboutassent /a.bu.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	aboute /a.but/	—	aboutons /a.bu.tɔ̃/	aboutez /a.bu.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• aboutage
• aboutement
• tenants et aboutissements

Further reading

• “abouter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• boutera, ébrouât