rouler
French
Etymology
From Old French ruele, roele (“small wheel”), from Medieval Latin rotulō, from Latin rotula.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁu.le/
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Verb
rouler
- to roll
- to revolve
- (colloquial) to go (of events, to proceed)
- Ça roule bien chez mon ami.
- It's going well at my friend's house.
- (of a vehicle) to work, to function
- (intransitive) to drive (a vehicle)
- On a roulé à 80 km à l'heure.
- We were driving 80 km an hour.
- Il roule en Rolls
- He drives a Rolls.
- Elle roule dans un véhicule neuf.
- She drives a new vehicle.
- (colloquial) to dupe, to trick
- se faire rouler ― to be tricked, to be duped
Conjugation
Conjugation of rouler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | roulant /ʁu.lɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | roulé /ʁu.le/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | rouler | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | roulant /ʁu.lɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | roule /ʁul/ |
roules /ʁul/ |
roule /ʁul/ |
roulons /ʁu.lɔ̃/ |
roulez /ʁu.le/ |
roulent /ʁul/ |
| imperfect | roulais /ʁu.lɛ/ |
roulais /ʁu.lɛ/ |
roulait /ʁu.lɛ/ |
roulions /ʁu.ljɔ̃/ |
rouliez /ʁu.lje/ |
roulaient /ʁu.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | roulai /ʁu.le/ |
roulas /ʁu.la/ |
roula /ʁu.la/ |
roulâmes /ʁu.lam/ |
roulâtes /ʁu.lat/ |
roulèrent /ʁu.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | roulerai /ʁul.ʁe/ |
rouleras /ʁul.ʁa/ |
roulera /ʁul.ʁa/ |
roulerons /ʁul.ʁɔ̃/ |
roulerez /ʁul.ʁe/ |
rouleront /ʁul.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | roulerais /ʁul.ʁɛ/ |
roulerais /ʁul.ʁɛ/ |
roulerait /ʁul.ʁɛ/ |
roulerions /ʁu.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rouleriez /ʁu.lə.ʁje/ |
rouleraient /ʁul.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 | roule /ʁul/ |
roules /ʁul/ |
roule /ʁul/ |
roulions /ʁu.ljɔ̃/ |
rouliez /ʁu.lje/ |
roulent /ʁul/ |
| imperfect2 | roulasse /ʁu.las/ |
roulasses /ʁu.las/ |
roulât /ʁu.la/ |
roulassions /ʁu.la.sjɔ̃/ |
roulassiez /ʁu.la.sje/ |
roulassent /ʁu.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | roule /ʁul/ |
— | roulons /ʁu.lɔ̃/ |
roulez /ʁu.le/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “rouler” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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