voguer

English

Etymology

vogue +‎ -er

Noun

voguer (plural voguers)

1. One who dances in the vogue style.
   • 2008 March 19, Claudia La Rocco, “Voguers Take Back the Night and the Dance Stage”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The tall, elegant Mr. Burnett unfurled his limbs in the precise yet fluid phrasing employed by voguers.

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French

Etymology

Possibly from Italian vogare, itself perhaps from Latin vocāre, or alternatively possibly of Germanic origin (related to vogue), from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to sway, fluctuate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.ɡe/

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Verb

voguer

1. (intransitive) to travel through the water
   1. (of a ship, or goods on a ship) to sail
   2. (of an animal) to swim
   3. (of rowers) to row

Conjugation

Conjugation of voguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	voguer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	voguant /vɔ.ɡɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vogué /vɔ.ɡe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vogue /vɔɡ/	vogues /vɔɡ/	vogue /vɔɡ/	voguons /vɔ.ɡɔ̃/	voguez /vɔ.ɡe/	voguent /vɔɡ/
	imperfect	voguais /vɔ.ɡɛ/	voguais /vɔ.ɡɛ/	voguait /vɔ.ɡɛ/	voguions /vɔ.ɡjɔ̃/	voguiez /vɔ.ɡje/	voguaient /vɔ.ɡɛ/
	past historic2	voguai /vɔ.ɡe/	voguas /vɔ.ɡa/	vogua /vɔ.ɡa/	voguâmes /vɔ.ɡam/	voguâtes /vɔ.ɡat/	voguèrent /vɔ.ɡɛʁ/
	future	voguerai /vɔ.ɡʁe/	vogueras /vɔ.ɡʁa/	voguera /vɔ.ɡʁa/	voguerons /vɔ.ɡʁɔ̃/	voguerez /vɔ.ɡʁe/	vogueront /vɔ.ɡʁɔ̃/
	conditional	voguerais /vɔ.ɡʁɛ/	voguerais /vɔ.ɡʁɛ/	voguerait /vɔ.ɡʁɛ/	voguerions /vɔ.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/	vogueriez /vɔ.ɡə.ʁje/	vogueraient /vɔ.ɡʁɛ/
(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	vogue /vɔɡ/	vogues /vɔɡ/	vogue /vɔɡ/	voguions /vɔ.ɡjɔ̃/	voguiez /vɔ.ɡje/	voguent /vɔɡ/
	imperfect2	voguasse /vɔ.ɡas/	voguasses /vɔ.ɡas/	voguât /vɔ.ɡa/	voguassions /vɔ.ɡa.sjɔ̃/	voguassiez /vɔ.ɡa.sje/	voguassent /vɔ.ɡas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vogue /vɔɡ/	—	voguons /vɔ.ɡɔ̃/	voguez /vɔ.ɡe/	—
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

• vogueur

See also

• ramer

References

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