tressauter

French

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 /tʁe.so.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tressauté /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 /tʁe.sot/	tressautes /tʁe.sot/	tressaute /tʁe.sot/	tressautons /tʁe.so.tɔ̃/	tressautez /tʁe.so.te/	tressautent /tʁe.sot/
	imperfect	tressautais /tʁe.so.tɛ/	tressautais /tʁe.so.tɛ/	tressautait /tʁe.so.tɛ/	tressautions /tʁe.so.tjɔ̃/	tressautiez /tʁe.so.tje/	tressautaient /tʁe.so.tɛ/
	past historic2	tressautai /tʁe.so.te/	tressautas /tʁe.so.ta/	tressauta /tʁe.so.ta/	tressautâmes /tʁe.so.tam/	tressautâtes /tʁe.so.tat/	tressautèrent /tʁe.so.tɛʁ/
	future	tressauterai /tʁe.so.tʁe/	tressauteras /tʁe.so.tʁa/	tressautera /tʁe.so.tʁa/	tressauterons /tʁe.so.tʁɔ̃/	tressauterez /tʁe.so.tʁe/	tressauteront /tʁe.so.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tressauterais /tʁe.so.tʁɛ/	tressauterais /tʁe.so.tʁɛ/	tressauterait /tʁe.so.tʁɛ/	tressauterions /tʁe.so.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	tressauteriez /tʁe.so.tə.ʁje/	tressauteraient /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 /tʁe.sot/	tressautes /tʁe.sot/	tressaute /tʁe.sot/	tressautions /tʁe.so.tjɔ̃/	tressautiez /tʁe.so.tje/	tressautent /tʁe.sot/
	imperfect2	tressautasse /tʁe.so.tas/	tressautasses /tʁe.so.tas/	tressautât /tʁe.so.ta/	tressautassions /tʁe.so.ta.sjɔ̃/	tressautassiez /tʁe.so.ta.sje/	tressautassent /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 /tʁe.sot/	—	tressautons /tʁe.so.tɔ̃/	tressautez /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.