jouer
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See also iouer
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
Middle French, from Old French joer, from Vulgar Latin *iocare, from Latin iocārī, present active infinitive of iocor.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Verb
jouer
- to play (engage in games or play)
- to play (produce music from a musical instrument)
- to play (a role)
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[edit] Conjugation
Conjugation of jouer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | jouer | avoir joué | |||||
| gerund | en jouant | en ayant joué | |||||
| present participle | jouant | ||||||
| past participle | joué | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | joue | joues | joue | jouons | jouez | jouent |
| imperfect | jouais | jouais | jouait | jouions | jouiez | jouaient | |
| past historic1 | jouai | jouas | joua | jouâmes | jouâtes | jouèrent | |
| future | jouerai | joueras | jouera | jouerons | jouerez | joueront | |
| conditional | jouerais | jouerais | jouerait | jouerions | joueriez | joueraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | joue | joues | joue | jouions | jouiez | jouent |
| imperfect1 | jouasse | jouasses | jouât | jouassions | jouassiez | jouassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | joue | — | jouons | jouez | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
[edit] Picard
[edit] Verb
jouer m.
- to play