raboter

French

Etymology

From rabot +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

raboter

1. (transitive) to plane (use a plane to flatten something)

Conjugation

Conjugation of raboter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	raboter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rabotant /ʁa.bɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		raboté /ʁa.bɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rabote /ʁa.bɔt/	rabotes /ʁa.bɔt/	rabote /ʁa.bɔt/	rabotons /ʁa.bɔ.tɔ̃/	rabotez /ʁa.bɔ.te/	rabotent /ʁa.bɔt/
	imperfect	rabotais /ʁa.bɔ.tɛ/	rabotais /ʁa.bɔ.tɛ/	rabotait /ʁa.bɔ.tɛ/	rabotions /ʁa.bɔ.tjɔ̃/	rabotiez /ʁa.bɔ.tje/	rabotaient /ʁa.bɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	rabotai /ʁa.bɔ.te/	rabotas /ʁa.bɔ.ta/	rabota /ʁa.bɔ.ta/	rabotâmes /ʁa.bɔ.tam/	rabotâtes /ʁa.bɔ.tat/	rabotèrent /ʁa.bɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	raboterai /ʁa.bɔ.tʁe/	raboteras /ʁa.bɔ.tʁa/	rabotera /ʁa.bɔ.tʁa/	raboterons /ʁa.bɔ.tʁɔ̃/	raboterez /ʁa.bɔ.tʁe/	raboteront /ʁa.bɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	raboterais /ʁa.bɔ.tʁɛ/	raboterais /ʁa.bɔ.tʁɛ/	raboterait /ʁa.bɔ.tʁɛ/	raboterions /ʁa.bɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	raboteriez /ʁa.bɔ.tə.ʁje/	raboteraient /ʁa.bɔ.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	rabote /ʁa.bɔt/	rabotes /ʁa.bɔt/	rabote /ʁa.bɔt/	rabotions /ʁa.bɔ.tjɔ̃/	rabotiez /ʁa.bɔ.tje/	rabotent /ʁa.bɔt/
	imperfect2	rabotasse /ʁa.bɔ.tas/	rabotasses /ʁa.bɔ.tas/	rabotât /ʁa.bɔ.ta/	rabotassions /ʁa.bɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	rabotassiez /ʁa.bɔ.ta.sje/	rabotassent /ʁa.bɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rabote /ʁa.bɔt/	—	rabotons /ʁa.bɔ.tɔ̃/	rabotez /ʁa.bɔ.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

• rabot

Further reading

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