flouter
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]flouter (plural flouters)
- A person who flouts.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Verb
[edit]flouter
- (neologism) to blur
- 2011 January, Comité permanent de l’accès à l’information, de la protection des renseignements personnels et de l’éthique, “La protection de la vie privée dans le monde numérique : Étude des répercussions sur la vie privée des systèmes d’imagerie à l’échelle de la rue”, in 40e législature, 3e session[2], Chambre des Communes Canada, retrieved 19 August 2023, page 9:
- L’assemblage des données est conçu de manière à flouter consciemment les visages de toute personne pouvant être photographiée dans le cadre de cette démarche.
- The assembly of the data is designed to deliberately blur the faces of any individual who may be photographed in this process.[1]
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of flouter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | flouter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | floutant /flu.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | flouté /flu.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | floute /flut/ |
floutes /flut/ |
floute /flut/ |
floutons /flu.tɔ̃/ |
floutez /flu.te/ |
floutent /flut/ |
imperfect | floutais /flu.tɛ/ |
floutais /flu.tɛ/ |
floutait /flu.tɛ/ |
floutions /flu.tjɔ̃/ |
floutiez /flu.tje/ |
floutaient /flu.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | floutai /flu.te/ |
floutas /flu.ta/ |
flouta /flu.ta/ |
floutâmes /flu.tam/ |
floutâtes /flu.tat/ |
floutèrent /flu.tɛʁ/ | |
future | flouterai /flu.tʁe/ |
flouteras /flu.tʁa/ |
floutera /flu.tʁa/ |
flouterons /flu.tʁɔ̃/ |
flouterez /flu.tʁe/ |
flouteront /flu.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | flouterais /flu.tʁɛ/ |
flouterais /flu.tʁɛ/ |
flouterait /flu.tʁɛ/ |
flouterions /flu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
flouteriez /flu.tə.ʁje/ |
flouteraient /flu.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 | floute /flut/ |
floutes /flut/ |
floute /flut/ |
floutions /flu.tjɔ̃/ |
floutiez /flu.tje/ |
floutent /flut/ |
imperfect2 | floutasse /flu.tas/ |
floutasses /flu.tas/ |
floutât /flu.ta/ |
floutassions /flu.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
floutassiez /flu.ta.sje/ |
floutassent /flu.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | floute /flut/ |
— | floutons /flu.tɔ̃/ |
floutez /flu.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
References
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French flauteur.
Noun
[edit]flouter (plural flouters)
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: fluter
References
[edit]- “floutē̆r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.
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