bleuter

French

Etymology

For the first meaning, bleu +‎ -t- +‎ -er.

For the second meaning, borrowed from German (see faire bleu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blø.te/

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Verb

bleuter

1. (rare) Synonym of bleuir
2. (Moselle) play truant, skip class

   Synonyms: faire bleu, (rest of France) sécher, (Belgium) brosser

Conjugation

Conjugation of bleuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bleuter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bleutant /blø.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bleuté /blø.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bleute /bløt/	bleutes /bløt/	bleute /bløt/	bleutons /blø.tɔ̃/	bleutez /blø.te/	bleutent /bløt/
	imperfect	bleutais /blø.tɛ/	bleutais /blø.tɛ/	bleutait /blø.tɛ/	bleutions /blø.tjɔ̃/	bleutiez /blø.tje/	bleutaient /blø.tɛ/
	past historic2	bleutai /blø.te/	bleutas /blø.ta/	bleuta /blø.ta/	bleutâmes /blø.tam/	bleutâtes /blø.tat/	bleutèrent /blø.tɛʁ/
	future	bleuterai /blø.tʁe/	bleuteras /blø.tʁa/	bleutera /blø.tʁa/	bleuterons /blø.tʁɔ̃/	bleuterez /blø.tʁe/	bleuteront /blø.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bleuterais /blø.tʁɛ/	bleuterais /blø.tʁɛ/	bleuterait /blø.tʁɛ/	bleuterions /blø.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	bleuteriez /blø.tə.ʁje/	bleuteraient /blø.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	bleute /bløt/	bleutes /bløt/	bleute /bløt/	bleutions /blø.tjɔ̃/	bleutiez /blø.tje/	bleutent /bløt/
	imperfect2	bleutasse /blø.tas/	bleutasses /blø.tas/	bleutât /blø.ta/	bleutassions /blø.ta.sjɔ̃/	bleutassiez /blø.ta.sje/	bleutassent /blø.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bleute /bløt/	—	bleutons /blø.tɔ̃/	bleutez /blø.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).

Further reading

• “bleuter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• "Bleuter", Dictionnaire des francophones [1]