ébouter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.bu.te/

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Verb

ébouter

1. to hew off the point (of something)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ébouter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ébouter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	éboutant /e.bu.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ébouté /e.bu.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	éboute /e.but/	éboutes /e.but/	éboute /e.but/	éboutons /e.bu.tɔ̃/	éboutez /e.bu.te/	éboutent /e.but/
	imperfect	éboutais /e.bu.tɛ/	éboutais /e.bu.tɛ/	éboutait /e.bu.tɛ/	éboutions /e.bu.tjɔ̃/	éboutiez /e.bu.tje/	éboutaient /e.bu.tɛ/
	past historic2	éboutai /e.bu.te/	éboutas /e.bu.ta/	ébouta /e.bu.ta/	éboutâmes /e.bu.tam/	éboutâtes /e.bu.tat/	éboutèrent /e.bu.tɛʁ/
	future	ébouterai /e.bu.tʁe/	ébouteras /e.bu.tʁa/	éboutera /e.bu.tʁa/	ébouterons /e.bu.tʁɔ̃/	ébouterez /e.bu.tʁe/	ébouteront /e.bu.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ébouterais /e.bu.tʁɛ/	ébouterais /e.bu.tʁɛ/	ébouterait /e.bu.tʁɛ/	ébouterions /e.bu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	ébouteriez /e.bu.tə.ʁje/	ébouteraient /e.bu.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	éboute /e.but/	éboutes /e.but/	éboute /e.but/	éboutions /e.bu.tjɔ̃/	éboutiez /e.bu.tje/	éboutent /e.but/
	imperfect2	éboutasse /e.bu.tas/	éboutasses /e.bu.tas/	éboutât /e.bu.ta/	éboutassions /e.bu.ta.sjɔ̃/	éboutassiez /e.bu.ta.sje/	éboutassent /e.bu.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	éboute /e.but/	—	éboutons /e.bu.tɔ̃/	éboutez /e.bu.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

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