roubler

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁu.ble/

Verb

roubler

1. (dialectal) to trick; to con; to dupe

Conjugation

Conjugation of roubler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	roubler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	roublant /ʁu.blɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		roublé /ʁu.ble/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rouble /ʁubl/	roubles /ʁubl/	rouble /ʁubl/	roublons /ʁu.blɔ̃/	roublez /ʁu.ble/	roublent /ʁubl/
	imperfect	roublais /ʁu.blɛ/	roublais /ʁu.blɛ/	roublait /ʁu.blɛ/	roublions /ʁu.bli.jɔ̃/	roubliez /ʁu.bli.je/	roublaient /ʁu.blɛ/
	past historic2	roublai /ʁu.ble/	roublas /ʁu.bla/	roubla /ʁu.bla/	roublâmes /ʁu.blam/	roublâtes /ʁu.blat/	roublèrent /ʁu.blɛʁ/
	future	roublerai /ʁu.blə.ʁe/	roubleras /ʁu.blə.ʁa/	roublera /ʁu.blə.ʁa/	roublerons /ʁu.blə.ʁɔ̃/	roublerez /ʁu.blə.ʁe/	roubleront /ʁu.blə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	roublerais /ʁu.blə.ʁɛ/	roublerais /ʁu.blə.ʁɛ/	roublerait /ʁu.blə.ʁɛ/	roublerions /ʁu.blə.ʁjɔ̃/	roubleriez /ʁu.blə.ʁje/	roubleraient /ʁu.blə.ʁɛ/
(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	rouble /ʁubl/	roubles /ʁubl/	rouble /ʁubl/	roublions /ʁu.bli.jɔ̃/	roubliez /ʁu.bli.je/	roublent /ʁubl/
	imperfect2	roublasse /ʁu.blas/	roublasses /ʁu.blas/	roublât /ʁu.bla/	roublassions /ʁu.bla.sjɔ̃/	roublassiez /ʁu.bla.sje/	roublassent /ʁu.blas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rouble /ʁubl/	—	roublons /ʁu.blɔ̃/	roublez /ʁu.ble/	—
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

• roublard

Related terms

• râbler

Further reading

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