toréer

French

Etymology

Borrowing from Spanish torear

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.ʁe.e/

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Verb

toréer

1. to fight a bull, in bullfighting

Conjugation

Conjugation of toréer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	toréer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	toréant /tɔ.ʁe.ɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		toréé /tɔ.ʁe.e/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	torée /tɔ.ʁe/	torées /tɔ.ʁe/	torée /tɔ.ʁe/	toréons /tɔ.ʁe.ɔ̃/	toréez /tɔ.ʁe.e/	toréent /tɔ.ʁe/
	imperfect	toréais /tɔ.ʁe.ɛ/	toréais /tɔ.ʁe.ɛ/	toréait /tɔ.ʁe.ɛ/	toréions /tɔ.ʁej.jɔ̃/ or /tɔ.ʁɛj.jɔ̃/	toréiez /tɔ.ʁej.je/ or /tɔ.ʁɛj.je/	toréaient /tɔ.ʁe.ɛ/
	past historic2	toréai /tɔ.ʁe.e/	toréas /tɔ.ʁe.a/	toréa /tɔ.ʁe.a/	toréâmes /tɔ.ʁe.am/	toréâtes /tɔ.ʁe.at/	toréèrent /tɔ.ʁe.ɛʁ/
	future	toréerai /tɔ.ʁe.ʁe/	toréeras /tɔ.ʁe.ʁa/	toréera /tɔ.ʁe.ʁa/	toréerons /tɔ.ʁe.ʁɔ̃/	toréerez /tɔ.ʁe.ʁe/	toréeront /tɔ.ʁe.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	toréerais /tɔ.ʁe.ʁɛ/	toréerais /tɔ.ʁe.ʁɛ/	toréerait /tɔ.ʁe.ʁɛ/	toréerions /tɔ.ʁe.ʁjɔ̃/	toréeriez /tɔ.ʁe.ʁje/	toréeraient /tɔ.ʁe.ʁɛ/
(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	torée /tɔ.ʁe/	torées /tɔ.ʁe/	torée /tɔ.ʁe/	toréions /tɔ.ʁej.jɔ̃/ or /tɔ.ʁɛj.jɔ̃/	toréiez /tɔ.ʁej.je/ or /tɔ.ʁɛj.je/	toréent /tɔ.ʁe/
	imperfect2	toréasse /tɔ.ʁe.as/	toréasses /tɔ.ʁe.as/	toréât /tɔ.ʁe.a/	toréassions /tɔ.ʁe.a.sjɔ̃/	toréassiez /tɔ.ʁe.a.sje/	toréassent /tɔ.ʁe.as/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	torée /tɔ.ʁe/	—	toréons /tɔ.ʁe.ɔ̃/	toréez /tɔ.ʁe.e/	—
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

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