rôder

See also: roder

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan rodar, from Latin rotāre. Doublet of rouer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁo.de/

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Verb

rôder

1. to loiter, prowl, move about suspiciously or hostilely
2. to wander
   • 1877, Victor Hugo, chapter 8, in L’Art d’être grand-père‎^[1], Calmann-Lévy, page 25:

     On voit rôder l’abeille à jeun, La guêpe court, le frelon guette ;

     We see the fasting bee wandering, The wasp runs, the hornet lies in wait;

3. Misspelling of roder.
   • 1995, Terry Pratchett, translated by Patrick Couton, Trois Sœurcières, Pocket, translation of Wyrd Sisters, published 1999, →ISBN, page 10:

     Elle avait passé des années à moisir en province, à jouer les secondes rafales, à se rôder, […]

     [original: It [a storm] had spent years hanging around the provinces, putting in some useful work as a squall, building up experience, […]]

Conjugation

Conjugation of rôder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rôder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rôdant /ʁo.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rôdé /ʁo.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rôde /ʁod/	rôdes /ʁod/	rôde /ʁod/	rôdons /ʁo.dɔ̃/	rôdez /ʁo.de/	rôdent /ʁod/
	imperfect	rôdais /ʁo.dɛ/	rôdais /ʁo.dɛ/	rôdait /ʁo.dɛ/	rôdions /ʁo.djɔ̃/	rôdiez /ʁo.dje/	rôdaient /ʁo.dɛ/
	past historic2	rôdai /ʁo.de/	rôdas /ʁo.da/	rôda /ʁo.da/	rôdâmes /ʁo.dam/	rôdâtes /ʁo.dat/	rôdèrent /ʁo.dɛʁ/
	future	rôderai /ʁo.dʁe/	rôderas /ʁo.dʁa/	rôdera /ʁo.dʁa/	rôderons /ʁo.dʁɔ̃/	rôderez /ʁo.dʁe/	rôderont /ʁo.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rôderais /ʁo.dʁɛ/	rôderais /ʁo.dʁɛ/	rôderait /ʁo.dʁɛ/	rôderions /ʁo.də.ʁjɔ̃/	rôderiez /ʁo.də.ʁje/	rôderaient /ʁo.dʁɛ/
(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	rôde /ʁod/	rôdes /ʁod/	rôde /ʁod/	rôdions /ʁo.djɔ̃/	rôdiez /ʁo.dje/	rôdent /ʁod/
	imperfect2	rôdasse /ʁo.das/	rôdasses /ʁo.das/	rôdât /ʁo.da/	rôdassions /ʁo.da.sjɔ̃/	rôdassiez /ʁo.da.sje/	rôdassent /ʁo.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rôde /ʁod/	—	rôdons /ʁo.dɔ̃/	rôdez /ʁo.de/	—
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).

Derived terms

• rôdeur

See also

• roder

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• dorer, ordre