sauter
See also: Sauter
English
    
    
Verb
    
sauter (third-person singular simple present sauters, present participle sautering, simple past and past participle sautered)
- Dated form of sauté.
Etymology 3
    
Due to American pronunciation.
French
    
    Etymology
    
Inherited from Old French, from Latin saltāre. Cognate with Spanish saltar.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /so.te/
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Verb
    
sauter
- (intransitive) to jump, leap
- Je saute sur mon lit. ― I'm jumping on my bed.
 
- (transitive) to jump over
- (transitive) to sauté
- (transitive, slang) to bang, hump, have sex with
- Je l’ai sauté(e) sur mon lit. ― I banged him/her on my bed.
 
- (transitive) to skip (pass from one step directly to a later step without going through the intervening ones)
- Leur fille est brillante, elle a sauté deux années.- Their daughter is brilliant, she has skipped two years
 
 
- (intransitive) to explode
Conjugation
    
Conjugation of sauter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | sauter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | sautant /so.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | sauté /so.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | saute /sot/ | sautes /sot/ | saute /sot/ | sautons /so.tɔ̃/ | sautez /so.te/ | sautent /sot/ | 
| imperfect | sautais /so.tɛ/ | sautais /so.tɛ/ | sautait /so.tɛ/ | sautions /so.tjɔ̃/ | sautiez /so.tje/ | sautaient /so.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | sautai /so.te/ | sautas /so.ta/ | sauta /so.ta/ | sautâmes /so.tam/ | sautâtes /so.tat/ | sautèrent /so.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | sauterai /so.tʁe/ | sauteras /so.tʁa/ | sautera /so.tʁa/ | sauterons /so.tʁɔ̃/ | sauterez /so.tʁe/ | sauteront /so.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | sauterais /so.tʁɛ/ | sauterais /so.tʁɛ/ | sauterait /so.tʁɛ/ | sauterions /so.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | sauteriez /so.tə.ʁje/ | sauteraient /so.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 | saute /sot/ | sautes /sot/ | saute /sot/ | sautions /so.tjɔ̃/ | sautiez /so.tje/ | sautent /sot/ | 
| imperfect2 | sautasse /so.tas/ | sautasses /so.tas/ | sautât /so.ta/ | sautassions /so.ta.sjɔ̃/ | sautassiez /so.ta.sje/ | sautassent /so.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | saute /sot/ | — | sautons /so.tɔ̃/ | sautez /so.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
    
Descendants
    
- → Turkish: sote (via past participle)
Further reading
    
- “sauter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
    
    Alternative forms
    
Etymology
    
Borrowed from Old French sautier, saltier, from Late Latin psaltērium, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion), replacing Old English psalter. Doublet of sauterie.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /sau̯ˈteːr/, /ˈsau̯tər/
Noun
    
sauter (plural sauters)
- The Biblical book of Psalms; the section of the Bible containing psalms.
- A psalm (hymn in the Book of Psalms)
- A psalter; a book containing psalms and related material.
- A psaltery (lute-like string instrument)
Descendants
    
- English: psalter
References
    
- “sautē̆r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Scots
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [ˈsɑːtər], [ˈsɔːtər]
- (Northern Scots, Insular Scots) IPA(key): [ˈsaːtər]
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