jouter

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French joster, from Vulgar Latin *iuxtāre, from Latin iuxtā (“close to”). See also jouxter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒu.te/

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• Homophones: joutai, jouté, joutez

Verb

jouter

1. (intransitive) to joust (participate in jousting)

Conjugation

Conjugation of jouter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	jouter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	joutant /ʒu.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		jouté /ʒu.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	joute /ʒut/	joutes /ʒut/	joute /ʒut/	joutons /ʒu.tɔ̃/	joutez /ʒu.te/	joutent /ʒut/
	imperfect	joutais /ʒu.tɛ/	joutais /ʒu.tɛ/	joutait /ʒu.tɛ/	joutions /ʒu.tjɔ̃/	joutiez /ʒu.tje/	joutaient /ʒu.tɛ/
	past historic2	joutai /ʒu.te/	joutas /ʒu.ta/	jouta /ʒu.ta/	joutâmes /ʒu.tam/	joutâtes /ʒu.tat/	joutèrent /ʒu.tɛʁ/
	future	jouterai /ʒu.tʁe/	jouteras /ʒu.tʁa/	joutera /ʒu.tʁa/	jouterons /ʒu.tʁɔ̃/	jouterez /ʒu.tʁe/	jouteront /ʒu.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	jouterais /ʒu.tʁɛ/	jouterais /ʒu.tʁɛ/	jouterait /ʒu.tʁɛ/	jouterions /ʒu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	jouteriez /ʒu.tə.ʁje/	jouteraient /ʒu.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	joute /ʒut/	joutes /ʒut/	joute /ʒut/	joutions /ʒu.tjɔ̃/	joutiez /ʒu.tje/	joutent /ʒut/
	imperfect2	joutasse /ʒu.tas/	joutasses /ʒu.tas/	joutât /ʒu.ta/	joutassions /ʒu.ta.sjɔ̃/	joutassiez /ʒu.ta.sje/	joutassent /ʒu.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	joute /ʒut/	—	joutons /ʒu.tɔ̃/	joutez /ʒu.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: 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

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