buter
See also: bûter
French
    
    Pronunciation
    
Verb
    
buter
Conjugation
    
Conjugation of buter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | buter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | butant /by.tɑ̃/  | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | buté /by.te/  | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses)  | 
present | bute /byt/  | 
butes /byt/  | 
bute /byt/  | 
butons /by.tɔ̃/  | 
butez /by.te/  | 
butent /byt/  | 
| imperfect | butais /by.tɛ/  | 
butais /by.tɛ/  | 
butait /by.tɛ/  | 
butions /by.tjɔ̃/  | 
butiez /by.tje/  | 
butaient /by.tɛ/  | |
| past historic2 | butai /by.te/  | 
butas /by.ta/  | 
buta /by.ta/  | 
butâmes /by.tam/  | 
butâtes /by.tat/  | 
butèrent /by.tɛʁ/  | |
| future | buterai /by.tʁe/  | 
buteras /by.tʁa/  | 
butera /by.tʁa/  | 
buterons /by.tʁɔ̃/  | 
buterez /by.tʁe/  | 
buteront /by.tʁɔ̃/  | |
| conditional | buterais /by.tʁɛ/  | 
buterais /by.tʁɛ/  | 
buterait /by.tʁɛ/  | 
buterions /by.tə.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
buteriez /by.tə.ʁje/  | 
buteraient /by.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 | bute /byt/  | 
butes /byt/  | 
bute /byt/  | 
butions /by.tjɔ̃/  | 
butiez /by.tje/  | 
butent /byt/  | 
| imperfect2 | butasse /by.tas/  | 
butasses /by.tas/  | 
butât /by.ta/  | 
butassions /by.ta.sjɔ̃/  | 
butassiez /by.ta.sje/  | 
butassent /by.tas/  | |
| (compound tenses)  | 
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bute /byt/  | 
— | butons /by.tɔ̃/  | 
butez /by.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).  | |||||||
Further reading
    
- “buter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
 
Middle English
    
    Alternative forms
    
Etymology
    
From Old English butere, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron).
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈbutər(ə)/
 
Noun
    
buter (uncountable)
- butter (spread made of churned cream)
- p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:
- þa ƿaſ coꝛn dære: ⁊ flec ⁊ cæſe ⁊ butere. foꝛ nan ƿæſ o þe land. Ƿreccemen ſturuen of hungær.
- Grain was precious then, and meat, cheese, and butter, because there wasn't any in the country. Wretched men died from hunger.
 
 
 
 
Related terms
    
Descendants
    
References
    
- “buter(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-10.
 
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