caillouter

French

Etymology

From caillou +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ju.te/

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Verb

caillouter

1. (transitive) to metal (a road)

Conjugation

Conjugation of caillouter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	caillouter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cailloutant /ka.ju.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		caillouté /ka.ju.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cailloute /ka.jut/	cailloutes /ka.jut/	cailloute /ka.jut/	cailloutons /ka.ju.tɔ̃/	cailloutez /ka.ju.te/	cailloutent /ka.jut/
	imperfect	cailloutais /ka.ju.tɛ/	cailloutais /ka.ju.tɛ/	cailloutait /ka.ju.tɛ/	cailloutions /ka.ju.tjɔ̃/	cailloutiez /ka.ju.tje/	cailloutaient /ka.ju.tɛ/
	past historic2	cailloutai /ka.ju.te/	cailloutas /ka.ju.ta/	caillouta /ka.ju.ta/	cailloutâmes /ka.ju.tam/	cailloutâtes /ka.ju.tat/	cailloutèrent /ka.ju.tɛʁ/
	future	caillouterai /ka.ju.tʁe/	caillouteras /ka.ju.tʁa/	cailloutera /ka.ju.tʁa/	caillouterons /ka.ju.tʁɔ̃/	caillouterez /ka.ju.tʁe/	caillouteront /ka.ju.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	caillouterais /ka.ju.tʁɛ/	caillouterais /ka.ju.tʁɛ/	caillouterait /ka.ju.tʁɛ/	caillouterions /ka.ju.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	caillouteriez /ka.ju.tə.ʁje/	caillouteraient /ka.ju.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	cailloute /ka.jut/	cailloutes /ka.jut/	cailloute /ka.jut/	cailloutions /ka.ju.tjɔ̃/	cailloutiez /ka.ju.tje/	cailloutent /ka.jut/
	imperfect2	cailloutasse /ka.ju.tas/	cailloutasses /ka.ju.tas/	cailloutât /ka.ju.ta/	cailloutassions /ka.ju.ta.sjɔ̃/	cailloutassiez /ka.ju.ta.sje/	cailloutassent /ka.ju.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cailloute /ka.jut/	—	cailloutons /ka.ju.tɔ̃/	cailloutez /ka.ju.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

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