volter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔl.te/

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Verb

volter

1. (intransitive, fencing) to make a volt

Conjugation

Conjugation of volter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	volter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	voltant /vɔl.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		volté /vɔl.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	volte /vɔlt/	voltes /vɔlt/	volte /vɔlt/	voltons /vɔl.tɔ̃/	voltez /vɔl.te/	voltent /vɔlt/
	imperfect	voltais /vɔl.tɛ/	voltais /vɔl.tɛ/	voltait /vɔl.tɛ/	voltions /vɔl.tjɔ̃/	voltiez /vɔl.tje/	voltaient /vɔl.tɛ/
	past historic2	voltai /vɔl.te/	voltas /vɔl.ta/	volta /vɔl.ta/	voltâmes /vɔl.tam/	voltâtes /vɔl.tat/	voltèrent /vɔl.tɛʁ/
	future	volterai /vɔl.tə.ʁe/	volteras /vɔl.tə.ʁa/	voltera /vɔl.tə.ʁa/	volterons /vɔl.tə.ʁɔ̃/	volterez /vɔl.tə.ʁe/	volteront /vɔl.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	volterais /vɔl.tə.ʁɛ/	volterais /vɔl.tə.ʁɛ/	volterait /vɔl.tə.ʁɛ/	volterions /vɔl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	volteriez /vɔl.tə.ʁje/	volteraient /vɔl.tə.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	volte /vɔlt/	voltes /vɔlt/	volte /vɔlt/	voltions /vɔl.tjɔ̃/	voltiez /vɔl.tje/	voltent /vɔlt/
	imperfect2	voltasse /vɔl.tas/	voltasses /vɔl.tas/	voltât /vɔl.ta/	voltassions /vɔl.ta.sjɔ̃/	voltassiez /vɔl.ta.sje/	voltassent /vɔl.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	volte /vɔlt/	—	voltons /vɔl.tɔ̃/	voltez /vɔl.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

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

Swedish

Noun

volter

1. indefinite plural of volt