voltiger

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian volteggiare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔl.ti.ʒe/

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Verb

voltiger

1. (intransitive) to flutter
2. (Louisiana) to fly, to take a plane

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written voltige- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Conjugation of voltiger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	voltiger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	voltigeant /vɔl.ti.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		voltigé /vɔl.ti.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	voltige /vɔl.tiʒ/	voltiges /vɔl.tiʒ/	voltige /vɔl.tiʒ/	voltigeons /vɔl.ti.ʒɔ̃/	voltigez /vɔl.ti.ʒe/	voltigent /vɔl.tiʒ/
	imperfect	voltigeais /vɔl.ti.ʒɛ/	voltigeais /vɔl.ti.ʒɛ/	voltigeait /vɔl.ti.ʒɛ/	voltigions /vɔl.ti.ʒjɔ̃/	voltigiez /vɔl.ti.ʒje/	voltigeaient /vɔl.ti.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	voltigeai /vɔl.ti.ʒe/	voltigeas /vɔl.ti.ʒa/	voltigea /vɔl.ti.ʒa/	voltigeâmes /vɔl.ti.ʒam/	voltigeâtes /vɔl.ti.ʒat/	voltigèrent /vɔl.ti.ʒɛʁ/
	future	voltigerai /vɔl.tiʒ.ʁe/	voltigeras /vɔl.tiʒ.ʁa/	voltigera /vɔl.tiʒ.ʁa/	voltigerons /vɔl.tiʒ.ʁɔ̃/	voltigerez /vɔl.tiʒ.ʁe/	voltigeront /vɔl.tiʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	voltigerais /vɔl.tiʒ.ʁɛ/	voltigerais /vɔl.tiʒ.ʁɛ/	voltigerait /vɔl.tiʒ.ʁɛ/	voltigerions /vɔl.ti.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	voltigeriez /vɔl.ti.ʒə.ʁje/	voltigeraient /vɔl.tiʒ.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	voltige /vɔl.tiʒ/	voltiges /vɔl.tiʒ/	voltige /vɔl.tiʒ/	voltigions /vɔl.ti.ʒjɔ̃/	voltigiez /vɔl.ti.ʒje/	voltigent /vɔl.tiʒ/
	imperfect2	voltigeasse /vɔl.ti.ʒas/	voltigeasses /vɔl.ti.ʒas/	voltigeât /vɔl.ti.ʒa/	voltigeassions /vɔl.ti.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	voltigeassiez /vɔl.ti.ʒa.sje/	voltigeassent /vɔl.ti.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	voltige /vɔl.tiʒ/	—	voltigeons /vɔl.ti.ʒɔ̃/	voltigez /vɔl.ti.ʒe/	—
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

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