polluer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin polluō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.lɥe/

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Verb

polluer

1. to pollute (create pollution)
2. to soil, to pollute (to defame)

Conjugation

Conjugation of polluer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	polluer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	polluant /pɔ.lɥɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pollué /pɔ.lɥe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pollue /pɔ.ly/	pollues /pɔ.ly/	pollue /pɔ.ly/	polluons /pɔ.lɥɔ̃/	polluez /pɔ.lɥe/	polluent /pɔ.ly/
	imperfect	polluais /pɔ.lɥɛ/	polluais /pɔ.lɥɛ/	polluait /pɔ.lɥɛ/	polluions /pɔ.ly.jɔ̃/	polluiez /pɔ.ly.je/	polluaient /pɔ.lɥɛ/
	past historic2	polluai /pɔ.lɥe/	polluas /pɔ.lɥa/	pollua /pɔ.lɥa/	polluâmes /pɔ.lɥam/	polluâtes /pɔ.lɥat/	polluèrent /pɔ.lɥɛʁ/
	future	polluerai /pɔ.ly.ʁe/	pollueras /pɔ.ly.ʁa/	polluera /pɔ.ly.ʁa/	polluerons /pɔ.ly.ʁɔ̃/	polluerez /pɔ.ly.ʁe/	pollueront /pɔ.ly.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	polluerais /pɔ.ly.ʁɛ/	polluerais /pɔ.ly.ʁɛ/	polluerait /pɔ.ly.ʁɛ/	polluerions /pɔ.ly.ʁjɔ̃/	pollueriez /pɔ.ly.ʁje/	pollueraient /pɔ.ly.ʁɛ/
(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	pollue /pɔ.ly/	pollues /pɔ.ly/	pollue /pɔ.ly/	polluions /pɔ.ly.jɔ̃/	polluiez /pɔ.ly.je/	polluent /pɔ.ly/
	imperfect2	polluasse /pɔ.lɥas/	polluasses /pɔ.lɥas/	polluât /pɔ.lɥa/	polluassions /pɔ.lɥa.sjɔ̃/	polluassiez /pɔ.lɥa.sje/	polluassent /pɔ.lɥas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pollue /pɔ.ly/	—	polluons /pɔ.lɥɔ̃/	polluez /pɔ.lɥe/	—
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).

Related terms

• dépolluer
• polluant
• pollution

Further reading

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