brouetter

French

Etymology

From brouette +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

brouetter

1. to wheelbarrow (transport something in a wheelbarrow)

Conjugation

Conjugation of brouetter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	brouetter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	brouettant /bʁu.ɛ.tɑ̃/ or /bʁu.e.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		brouetté /bʁu.ɛ.te/ or /bʁu.e.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	brouette /bʁu.ɛt/	brouettes /bʁu.ɛt/	brouette /bʁu.ɛt/	brouettons /bʁu.ɛ.tɔ̃/ or /bʁu.e.tɔ̃/	brouettez /bʁu.ɛ.te/ or /bʁu.e.te/	brouettent /bʁu.ɛt/
	imperfect	brouettais /bʁu.ɛ.tɛ/ or /bʁu.e.tɛ/	brouettais /bʁu.ɛ.tɛ/ or /bʁu.e.tɛ/	brouettait /bʁu.ɛ.tɛ/ or /bʁu.e.tɛ/	brouettions /bʁu.ɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /bʁu.e.tjɔ̃/	brouettiez /bʁu.ɛ.tje/ or /bʁu.e.tje/	brouettaient /bʁu.ɛ.tɛ/ or /bʁu.e.tɛ/
	past historic2	brouettai /bʁu.ɛ.te/ or /bʁu.e.te/	brouettas /bʁu.ɛ.ta/ or /bʁu.e.ta/	brouetta /bʁu.ɛ.ta/ or /bʁu.e.ta/	brouettâmes /bʁu.ɛ.tam/ or /bʁu.e.tam/	brouettâtes /bʁu.ɛ.tat/ or /bʁu.e.tat/	brouettèrent /bʁu.ɛ.tɛʁ/ or /bʁu.e.tɛʁ/
	future	brouetterai /bʁu.ɛ.tʁe/ or /bʁu.e.tʁe/	brouetteras /bʁu.ɛ.tʁa/ or /bʁu.e.tʁa/	brouettera /bʁu.ɛ.tʁa/ or /bʁu.e.tʁa/	brouetterons /bʁu.ɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /bʁu.e.tʁɔ̃/	brouetterez /bʁu.ɛ.tʁe/ or /bʁu.e.tʁe/	brouetteront /bʁu.ɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /bʁu.e.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	brouetterais /bʁu.ɛ.tʁɛ/ or /bʁu.e.tʁɛ/	brouetterais /bʁu.ɛ.tʁɛ/ or /bʁu.e.tʁɛ/	brouetterait /bʁu.ɛ.tʁɛ/ or /bʁu.e.tʁɛ/	brouetterions /bʁu.ɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /bʁu.e.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	brouetteriez /bʁu.ɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /bʁu.e.tə.ʁje/	brouetteraient /bʁu.ɛ.tʁɛ/ or /bʁu.e.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	brouette /bʁu.ɛt/	brouettes /bʁu.ɛt/	brouette /bʁu.ɛt/	brouettions /bʁu.ɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /bʁu.e.tjɔ̃/	brouettiez /bʁu.ɛ.tje/ or /bʁu.e.tje/	brouettent /bʁu.ɛt/
	imperfect2	brouettasse /bʁu.ɛ.tas/ or /bʁu.e.tas/	brouettasses /bʁu.ɛ.tas/ or /bʁu.e.tas/	brouettât /bʁu.ɛ.ta/ or /bʁu.e.ta/	brouettassions /bʁu.ɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /bʁu.e.ta.sjɔ̃/	brouettassiez /bʁu.ɛ.ta.sje/ or /bʁu.e.ta.sje/	brouettassent /bʁu.ɛ.tas/ or /bʁu.e.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	brouette /bʁu.ɛt/	—	brouettons /bʁu.ɛ.tɔ̃/ or /bʁu.e.tɔ̃/	brouettez /bʁu.ɛ.te/ or /bʁu.e.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

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