queuter
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From queue + -er (with a euphonic -t-).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]queuter
- (snooker, billiards) to push (to have the cue ball in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same time)
- (slang) to miss, fail, screw up
- (vulgar) to have sex
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of queuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | queuter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | queutant /kø.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | queuté /kø.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | queute /køt/ |
queutes /køt/ |
queute /køt/ |
queutons /kø.tɔ̃/ |
queutez /kø.te/ |
queutent /køt/ |
| imperfect | queutais /kø.tɛ/ |
queutais /kø.tɛ/ |
queutait /kø.tɛ/ |
queutions /kø.tjɔ̃/ |
queutiez /kø.tje/ |
queutaient /kø.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | queutai /kø.te/ |
queutas /kø.ta/ |
queuta /kø.ta/ |
queutâmes /kø.tam/ |
queutâtes /kø.tat/ |
queutèrent /kø.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | queuterai /kø.tʁe/ |
queuteras /kø.tʁa/ |
queutera /kø.tʁa/ |
queuterons /kø.tʁɔ̃/ |
queuterez /kø.tʁe/ |
queuteront /kø.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | queuterais /kø.tʁɛ/ |
queuterais /kø.tʁɛ/ |
queuterait /kø.tʁɛ/ |
queuterions /kø.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
queuteriez /kø.tə.ʁje/ |
queuteraient /kø.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 | queute /køt/ |
queutes /køt/ |
queute /køt/ |
queutions /kø.tjɔ̃/ |
queutiez /kø.tje/ |
queutent /køt/ |
| imperfect2 | queutasse /kø.tas/ |
queutasses /kø.tas/ |
queutât /kø.ta/ |
queutassions /kø.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
queutassiez /kø.ta.sje/ |
queutassent /kø.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | queute /køt/ |
— | queutons /kø.tɔ̃/ |
queutez /kø.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). | |||||||
Synonyms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “queuter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.