tressauter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɛ.so.te/, /tʁe.so.te/

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Verb

tressauter

1. to jump, act jumpy

Conjugation

Conjugation of tressauter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tressauter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tressautant /tʁɛ.so.tɑ̃/ or /tʁe.so.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tressauté /tʁɛ.so.te/ or /tʁe.so.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tressaute /tʁɛ.sot/ or /tʁe.sot/	tressautes /tʁɛ.sot/ or /tʁe.sot/	tressaute /tʁɛ.sot/ or /tʁe.sot/	tressautons /tʁɛ.so.tɔ̃/ or /tʁe.so.tɔ̃/	tressautez /tʁɛ.so.te/ or /tʁe.so.te/	tressautent /tʁɛ.sot/ or /tʁe.sot/
	imperfect	tressautais /tʁɛ.so.tɛ/ or /tʁe.so.tɛ/	tressautais /tʁɛ.so.tɛ/ or /tʁe.so.tɛ/	tressautait /tʁɛ.so.tɛ/ or /tʁe.so.tɛ/	tressautions /tʁɛ.so.tjɔ̃/ or /tʁe.so.tjɔ̃/	tressautiez /tʁɛ.so.tje/ or /tʁe.so.tje/	tressautaient /tʁɛ.so.tɛ/ or /tʁe.so.tɛ/
	past historic2	tressautai /tʁɛ.so.te/ or /tʁe.so.te/	tressautas /tʁɛ.so.ta/ or /tʁe.so.ta/	tressauta /tʁɛ.so.ta/ or /tʁe.so.ta/	tressautâmes /tʁɛ.so.tam/ or /tʁe.so.tam/	tressautâtes /tʁɛ.so.tat/ or /tʁe.so.tat/	tressautèrent /tʁɛ.so.tɛʁ/ or /tʁe.so.tɛʁ/
	future	tressauterai /tʁɛ.so.tʁe/ or /tʁe.so.tʁe/	tressauteras /tʁɛ.so.tʁa/ or /tʁe.so.tʁa/	tressautera /tʁɛ.so.tʁa/ or /tʁe.so.tʁa/	tressauterons /tʁɛ.so.tʁɔ̃/ or /tʁe.so.tʁɔ̃/	tressauterez /tʁɛ.so.tʁe/ or /tʁe.so.tʁe/	tressauteront /tʁɛ.so.tʁɔ̃/ or /tʁe.so.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tressauterais /tʁɛ.so.tʁɛ/ or /tʁe.so.tʁɛ/	tressauterais /tʁɛ.so.tʁɛ/ or /tʁe.so.tʁɛ/	tressauterait /tʁɛ.so.tʁɛ/ or /tʁe.so.tʁɛ/	tressauterions /tʁɛ.so.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /tʁe.so.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	tressauteriez /tʁɛ.so.tə.ʁje/ or /tʁe.so.tə.ʁje/	tressauteraient /tʁɛ.so.tʁɛ/ or /tʁe.so.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	tressaute /tʁɛ.sot/ or /tʁe.sot/	tressautes /tʁɛ.sot/ or /tʁe.sot/	tressaute /tʁɛ.sot/ or /tʁe.sot/	tressautions /tʁɛ.so.tjɔ̃/ or /tʁe.so.tjɔ̃/	tressautiez /tʁɛ.so.tje/ or /tʁe.so.tje/	tressautent /tʁɛ.sot/ or /tʁe.sot/
	imperfect2	tressautasse /tʁɛ.so.tas/ or /tʁe.so.tas/	tressautasses /tʁɛ.so.tas/ or /tʁe.so.tas/	tressautât /tʁɛ.so.ta/ or /tʁe.so.ta/	tressautassions /tʁɛ.so.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /tʁe.so.ta.sjɔ̃/	tressautassiez /tʁɛ.so.ta.sje/ or /tʁe.so.ta.sje/	tressautassent /tʁɛ.so.tas/ or /tʁe.so.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tressaute /tʁɛ.sot/ or /tʁe.sot/	—	tressautons /tʁɛ.so.tɔ̃/ or /tʁe.so.tɔ̃/	tressautez /tʁɛ.so.te/ or /tʁe.so.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

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