sangloter

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French sangloter, from Vulgar Latin *singluttāre, from Latin singultāre, with influence from gluttīre. Compare Italian singhiozzare, Occitan and Catalan sanglotar.

Pronunciation

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Verb

sangloter

1. (intransitive) to sob
   • 1869, Paul Verlaine, Clair de lune [Moonlight]‎^[1]:

     Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune, / Au calme clair de lune triste et beau, / Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres / Et sangloter d’extase les jets d’eau, / Les grands jets d’eau sveltes parmi les marbres.

     And their song blends with the moonlight, / With the sad and beautiful moonlight, / Which sets the birds in the trees dreaming, / And makes the fountains sob with ecstasy, / The tall slim water streams among the marble statues.

Conjugation

Conjugation of sangloter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sangloter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sanglotant /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sangloté /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sanglote /sɑ̃.ɡlɔt/	sanglotes /sɑ̃.ɡlɔt/	sanglote /sɑ̃.ɡlɔt/	sanglotons /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tɔ̃/	sanglotez /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.te/	sanglotent /sɑ̃.ɡlɔt/
	imperfect	sanglotais /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tɛ/	sanglotais /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tɛ/	sanglotait /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tɛ/	sanglotions /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tjɔ̃/	sanglotiez /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tje/	sanglotaient /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	sanglotai /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.te/	sanglotas /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.ta/	sanglota /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.ta/	sanglotâmes /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tam/	sanglotâtes /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tat/	sanglotèrent /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	sangloterai /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tʁe/	sangloteras /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tʁa/	sanglotera /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tʁa/	sangloterons /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tʁɔ̃/	sangloterez /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tʁe/	sangloteront /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sangloterais /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tʁɛ/	sangloterais /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tʁɛ/	sangloterait /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tʁɛ/	sangloterions /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	sangloteriez /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tə.ʁje/	sangloteraient /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.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	sanglote /sɑ̃.ɡlɔt/	sanglotes /sɑ̃.ɡlɔt/	sanglote /sɑ̃.ɡlɔt/	sanglotions /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tjɔ̃/	sanglotiez /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tje/	sanglotent /sɑ̃.ɡlɔt/
	imperfect2	sanglotasse /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tas/	sanglotasses /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tas/	sanglotât /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.ta/	sanglotassions /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	sanglotassiez /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.ta.sje/	sanglotassent /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sanglote /sɑ̃.ɡlɔt/	—	sanglotons /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.tɔ̃/	sanglotez /sɑ̃.ɡlɔ.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).

Related terms

• sanglot
• sanglotement

Further reading

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