vautrer

French

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *volūtulāre (“to tumble over”), from Latin volūtum, from the verb volvō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vo.tʁe/

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Verb

vautrer

1. (transitive, rare) to wallow (to roll one's body, or a part of it, in the mud or something of similar texture)
2. (reflexive) to sprawl; to wallow
3. (reflexive, figuratively) to wallow
4. (reflexive, informal) to tumble heavily on the ground
5. (reflexive, informal) to fail

Conjugation

Conjugation of vautrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vautrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vautrant /vo.tʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vautré /vo.tʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vautre /votʁ/	vautres /votʁ/	vautre /votʁ/	vautrons /vo.tʁɔ̃/	vautrez /vo.tʁe/	vautrent /votʁ/
	imperfect	vautrais /vo.tʁɛ/	vautrais /vo.tʁɛ/	vautrait /vo.tʁɛ/	vautrions /vo.tʁi.jɔ̃/	vautriez /vo.tʁi.je/	vautraient /vo.tʁɛ/
	past historic2	vautrai /vo.tʁe/	vautras /vo.tʁa/	vautra /vo.tʁa/	vautrâmes /vo.tʁam/	vautrâtes /vo.tʁat/	vautrèrent /vo.tʁɛʁ/
	future	vautrerai /vo.tʁə.ʁe/	vautreras /vo.tʁə.ʁa/	vautrera /vo.tʁə.ʁa/	vautrerons /vo.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/	vautrerez /vo.tʁə.ʁe/	vautreront /vo.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vautrerais /vo.tʁə.ʁɛ/	vautrerais /vo.tʁə.ʁɛ/	vautrerait /vo.tʁə.ʁɛ/	vautrerions /vo.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	vautreriez /vo.tʁə.ʁje/	vautreraient /vo.tʁə.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	vautre /votʁ/	vautres /votʁ/	vautre /votʁ/	vautrions /vo.tʁi.jɔ̃/	vautriez /vo.tʁi.je/	vautrent /votʁ/
	imperfect2	vautrasse /vo.tʁas/	vautrasses /vo.tʁas/	vautrât /vo.tʁa/	vautrassions /vo.tʁa.sjɔ̃/	vautrassiez /vo.tʁa.sje/	vautrassent /vo.tʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vautre /votʁ/	—	vautrons /vo.tʁɔ̃/	vautrez /vo.tʁe/	—
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

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