vinaigrer

French

Etymology

From vinaigre.

Pronunciation

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Verb

vinaigrer

1. to souse
2. to pickle

Conjugation

Conjugation of vinaigrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vinaigrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vinaigrant /vi.nɛ.ɡʁɑ̃/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vinaigré /vi.nɛ.ɡʁe/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vinaigre /vi.nɛɡʁ/	vinaigres /vi.nɛɡʁ/	vinaigre /vi.nɛɡʁ/	vinaigrons /vi.nɛ.ɡʁɔ̃/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁɔ̃/	vinaigrez /vi.nɛ.ɡʁe/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁe/	vinaigrent /vi.nɛɡʁ/
	imperfect	vinaigrais /vi.nɛ.ɡʁɛ/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁɛ/	vinaigrais /vi.nɛ.ɡʁɛ/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁɛ/	vinaigrait /vi.nɛ.ɡʁɛ/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁɛ/	vinaigrions /vi.nɛ.ɡʁi.jɔ̃/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁi.jɔ̃/	vinaigriez /vi.nɛ.ɡʁi.je/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁi.je/	vinaigraient /vi.nɛ.ɡʁɛ/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁɛ/
	past historic2	vinaigrai /vi.nɛ.ɡʁe/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁe/	vinaigras /vi.nɛ.ɡʁa/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁa/	vinaigra /vi.nɛ.ɡʁa/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁa/	vinaigrâmes /vi.nɛ.ɡʁam/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁam/	vinaigrâtes /vi.nɛ.ɡʁat/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁat/	vinaigrèrent /vi.nɛ.ɡʁɛʁ/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁɛʁ/
	future	vinaigrerai /vi.nɛ.ɡʁə.ʁe/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁə.ʁe/	vinaigreras /vi.nɛ.ɡʁə.ʁa/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁə.ʁa/	vinaigrera /vi.nɛ.ɡʁə.ʁa/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁə.ʁa/	vinaigrerons /vi.nɛ.ɡʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁə.ʁɔ̃/	vinaigrerez /vi.nɛ.ɡʁə.ʁe/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁə.ʁe/	vinaigreront /vi.nɛ.ɡʁə.ʁɔ̃/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vinaigrerais /vi.nɛ.ɡʁə.ʁɛ/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁə.ʁɛ/	vinaigrerais /vi.nɛ.ɡʁə.ʁɛ/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁə.ʁɛ/	vinaigrerait /vi.nɛ.ɡʁə.ʁɛ/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁə.ʁɛ/	vinaigrerions /vi.nɛ.ɡʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	vinaigreriez /vi.nɛ.ɡʁə.ʁje/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁə.ʁje/	vinaigreraient /vi.nɛ.ɡʁə.ʁɛ/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁə.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	vinaigre /vi.nɛɡʁ/	vinaigres /vi.nɛɡʁ/	vinaigre /vi.nɛɡʁ/	vinaigrions /vi.nɛ.ɡʁi.jɔ̃/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁi.jɔ̃/	vinaigriez /vi.nɛ.ɡʁi.je/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁi.je/	vinaigrent /vi.nɛɡʁ/
	imperfect2	vinaigrasse /vi.nɛ.ɡʁas/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁas/	vinaigrasses /vi.nɛ.ɡʁas/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁas/	vinaigrât /vi.nɛ.ɡʁa/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁa/	vinaigrassions /vi.nɛ.ɡʁa.sjɔ̃/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁa.sjɔ̃/	vinaigrassiez /vi.nɛ.ɡʁa.sje/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁa.sje/	vinaigrassent /vi.nɛ.ɡʁas/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vinaigre /vi.nɛɡʁ/	—	vinaigrons /vi.nɛ.ɡʁɔ̃/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁɔ̃/	vinaigrez /vi.nɛ.ɡʁe/ or /vi.ne.ɡʁe/	—
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

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