gruter

French

Etymology

From grue +‎ -t- +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁy.te/

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Verb

gruter

1. (construction) to move using a crane

Conjugation

Conjugation of gruter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	gruter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	grutant /ɡʁy.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		gruté /ɡʁy.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	grute /ɡʁyt/	grutes /ɡʁyt/	grute /ɡʁyt/	grutons /ɡʁy.tɔ̃/	grutez /ɡʁy.te/	grutent /ɡʁyt/
	imperfect	grutais /ɡʁy.tɛ/	grutais /ɡʁy.tɛ/	grutait /ɡʁy.tɛ/	grutions /ɡʁy.tjɔ̃/	grutiez /ɡʁy.tje/	grutaient /ɡʁy.tɛ/
	past historic2	grutai /ɡʁy.te/	grutas /ɡʁy.ta/	gruta /ɡʁy.ta/	grutâmes /ɡʁy.tam/	grutâtes /ɡʁy.tat/	grutèrent /ɡʁy.tɛʁ/
	future	gruterai /ɡʁy.tʁe/	gruteras /ɡʁy.tʁa/	grutera /ɡʁy.tʁa/	gruterons /ɡʁy.tʁɔ̃/	gruterez /ɡʁy.tʁe/	gruteront /ɡʁy.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	gruterais /ɡʁy.tʁɛ/	gruterais /ɡʁy.tʁɛ/	gruterait /ɡʁy.tʁɛ/	gruterions /ɡʁy.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	gruteriez /ɡʁy.tə.ʁje/	gruteraient /ɡʁy.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	grute /ɡʁyt/	grutes /ɡʁyt/	grute /ɡʁyt/	grutions /ɡʁy.tjɔ̃/	grutiez /ɡʁy.tje/	grutent /ɡʁyt/
	imperfect2	grutasse /ɡʁy.tas/	grutasses /ɡʁy.tas/	grutât /ɡʁy.ta/	grutassions /ɡʁy.ta.sjɔ̃/	grutassiez /ɡʁy.ta.sje/	grutassent /ɡʁy.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	grute /ɡʁyt/	—	grutons /ɡʁy.tɔ̃/	grutez /ɡʁy.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

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