voguer

English

Etymology

From vogue +‎ -er.

Noun

voguer (plural voguers)

1. One who dances in the vogue style.
   • 2008 March 19, Claudia La Rocco, “Voguers Take Back the Night and the Dance Stage”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The tall, elegant Mr. Burnett unfurled his limbs in the precise yet fluid phrasing employed by voguers.

French

Etymology

Possibly from Italian vogare, itself perhaps from Latin vocāre, possibly related to Ancient Greek βαυκάλη (baukálē, “crib”), or alternatively possibly of Germanic origin (related to vogue), from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to sway, fluctuate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔ.ɡe/

• Audio:

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Verb

voguer

1. (intransitive) to travel through the water
   1. (of a ship, or goods on a ship) to sail
   2. (of an animal) to swim
   3. (of rowers) to row

Conjugation

Conjugation of voguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	voguer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	voguant /vɔ.ɡɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vogué /vɔ.ɡe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vogue /vɔɡ/	vogues /vɔɡ/	vogue /vɔɡ/	voguons /vɔ.ɡɔ̃/	voguez /vɔ.ɡe/	voguent /vɔɡ/
	imperfect	voguais /vɔ.ɡɛ/	voguais /vɔ.ɡɛ/	voguait /vɔ.ɡɛ/	voguions /vɔ.ɡjɔ̃/	voguiez /vɔ.ɡje/	voguaient /vɔ.ɡɛ/
	past historic2	voguai /vɔ.ɡe/	voguas /vɔ.ɡa/	vogua /vɔ.ɡa/	voguâmes /vɔ.ɡam/	voguâtes /vɔ.ɡat/	voguèrent /vɔ.ɡɛʁ/
	future	voguerai /vɔ.ɡʁe/	vogueras /vɔ.ɡʁa/	voguera /vɔ.ɡʁa/	voguerons /vɔ.ɡʁɔ̃/	voguerez /vɔ.ɡʁe/	vogueront /vɔ.ɡʁɔ̃/
	conditional	voguerais /vɔ.ɡʁɛ/	voguerais /vɔ.ɡʁɛ/	voguerait /vɔ.ɡʁɛ/	voguerions /vɔ.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/	vogueriez /vɔ.ɡə.ʁje/	vogueraient /vɔ.ɡʁɛ/
(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	vogue /vɔɡ/	vogues /vɔɡ/	vogue /vɔɡ/	voguions /vɔ.ɡjɔ̃/	voguiez /vɔ.ɡje/	voguent /vɔɡ/
	imperfect2	voguasse /vɔ.ɡas/	voguasses /vɔ.ɡas/	voguât /vɔ.ɡa/	voguassions /vɔ.ɡa.sjɔ̃/	voguassiez /vɔ.ɡa.sje/	voguassent /vɔ.ɡas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vogue /vɔɡ/	—	voguons /vɔ.ɡɔ̃/	voguez /vɔ.ɡe/	—
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

• vogue la galère
• vogueur

See also

• ramer

Further reading

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