flouer

See also: Flouer

French

Etymology

Maybe ultimately from Latin fraudāre, fraudō. If this hypothesis is correct, it would make it a doublet of frauder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flu.e/

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Verb

flouer

1. (transitive) to swindle, con

Conjugation

Conjugation of flouer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	flouer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	flouant /flu.ɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		floué /flu.e/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	floue /flu/	floues /flu/	floue /flu/	flouons /flu.ɔ̃/	flouez /flu.e/	flouent /flu/
	imperfect	flouais /flu.ɛ/	flouais /flu.ɛ/	flouait /flu.ɛ/	flouions /flu.jɔ̃/	flouiez /flu.je/	flouaient /flu.ɛ/
	past historic2	flouai /flu.e/	flouas /flu.a/	floua /flu.a/	flouâmes /flu.am/	flouâtes /flu.at/	flouèrent /flu.ɛʁ/
	future	flouerai /flu.ʁe/	floueras /flu.ʁa/	flouera /flu.ʁa/	flouerons /flu.ʁɔ̃/	flouerez /flu.ʁe/	floueront /flu.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	flouerais /flu.ʁɛ/	flouerais /flu.ʁɛ/	flouerait /flu.ʁɛ/	flouerions /flu.ʁjɔ̃/	floueriez /flu.ʁje/	floueraient /flu.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	floue /flu/	floues /flu/	floue /flu/	flouions /flu.jɔ̃/	flouiez /flu.je/	flouent /flu/
	imperfect2	flouasse /flu.as/	flouasses /flu.as/	flouât /flu.a/	flouassions /flu.a.sjɔ̃/	flouassiez /flu.a.sje/	flouassent /flu.as/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	floue /flu/	—	flouons /flu.ɔ̃/	flouez /flu.e/	—
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

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

Luxembourgish

Adjective

flouer

1. feminine dative of flou

Scots

Noun

flouer (plural flouers)

1. Alternative form of flour