saboter

See also: sabotér

French

Etymology

From sabot (“clog”) +‎ -er, because mill workers would throw their wooden clogs into the machinery to make it halt or break down.

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.bɔ.te/

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Verb

saboter

1. to sabotage

Conjugation

Conjugation of saboter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	saboter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sabotant /sa.bɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		saboté /sa.bɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sabote /sa.bɔt/	sabotes /sa.bɔt/	sabote /sa.bɔt/	sabotons /sa.bɔ.tɔ̃/	sabotez /sa.bɔ.te/	sabotent /sa.bɔt/
	imperfect	sabotais /sa.bɔ.tɛ/	sabotais /sa.bɔ.tɛ/	sabotait /sa.bɔ.tɛ/	sabotions /sa.bɔ.tjɔ̃/	sabotiez /sa.bɔ.tje/	sabotaient /sa.bɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	sabotai /sa.bɔ.te/	sabotas /sa.bɔ.ta/	sabota /sa.bɔ.ta/	sabotâmes /sa.bɔ.tam/	sabotâtes /sa.bɔ.tat/	sabotèrent /sa.bɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	saboterai /sa.bɔ.tʁe/	saboteras /sa.bɔ.tʁa/	sabotera /sa.bɔ.tʁa/	saboterons /sa.bɔ.tʁɔ̃/	saboterez /sa.bɔ.tʁe/	saboteront /sa.bɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	saboterais /sa.bɔ.tʁɛ/	saboterais /sa.bɔ.tʁɛ/	saboterait /sa.bɔ.tʁɛ/	saboterions /sa.bɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	saboteriez /sa.bɔ.tə.ʁje/	saboteraient /sa.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	sabote /sa.bɔt/	sabotes /sa.bɔt/	sabote /sa.bɔt/	sabotions /sa.bɔ.tjɔ̃/	sabotiez /sa.bɔ.tje/	sabotent /sa.bɔt/
	imperfect2	sabotasse /sa.bɔ.tas/	sabotasses /sa.bɔ.tas/	sabotât /sa.bɔ.ta/	sabotassions /sa.bɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	sabotassiez /sa.bɔ.ta.sje/	sabotassent /sa.bɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sabote /sa.bɔt/	—	sabotons /sa.bɔ.tɔ̃/	sabotez /sa.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).

Derived terms

• sabotage
• saboteur

Descendants

• → Italian: sabotare
• → Dutch: saboteren
• → Turkish: sabote (via past participle)

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• borates, robâtes

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

saboter

1. imperative of sabotere

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sabǒteːr/
• Hyphenation: sa‧bo‧ter

Noun

sabòtēr m anim (Cyrillic spelling сабо̀те̄р)

1. saboteur

Declension

Declension of saboter

	singular	plural
nominative	sabòtēr	saboteri
genitive	sabotéra	sabotera
dative	saboteru	saboterima
accusative	sabotera	sabotere
vocative	saboteru	saboteri
locative	saboteru	saboterima
instrumental	saboterom	saboterima