clouter
English
    
    Etymology
    
From Middle English clowter; equivalent to clout + -er.
Noun
    
clouter (plural clouters)
French
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /klu.te/
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Conjugation
    
Conjugation of clouter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | clouter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cloutant /klu.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | clouté /klu.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | cloute /klut/ | cloutes /klut/ | cloute /klut/ | cloutons /klu.tɔ̃/ | cloutez /klu.te/ | cloutent /klut/ | 
| imperfect | cloutais /klu.tɛ/ | cloutais /klu.tɛ/ | cloutait /klu.tɛ/ | cloutions /klu.tjɔ̃/ | cloutiez /klu.tje/ | cloutaient /klu.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cloutai /klu.te/ | cloutas /klu.ta/ | clouta /klu.ta/ | cloutâmes /klu.tam/ | cloutâtes /klu.tat/ | cloutèrent /klu.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | clouterai /klu.tʁe/ | clouteras /klu.tʁa/ | cloutera /klu.tʁa/ | clouterons /klu.tʁɔ̃/ | clouterez /klu.tʁe/ | clouteront /klu.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | clouterais /klu.tʁɛ/ | clouterais /klu.tʁɛ/ | clouterait /klu.tʁɛ/ | clouterions /klu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | clouteriez /klu.tə.ʁje/ | clouteraient /klu.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 | cloute /klut/ | cloutes /klut/ | cloute /klut/ | cloutions /klu.tjɔ̃/ | cloutiez /klu.tje/ | cloutent /klut/ | 
| imperfect2 | cloutasse /klu.tas/ | cloutasses /klu.tas/ | cloutât /klu.ta/ | cloutassions /klu.ta.sjɔ̃/ | cloutassiez /klu.ta.sje/ | cloutassent /klu.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cloute /klut/ | — | cloutons /klu.tɔ̃/ | cloutez /klu.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
    
- “clouter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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