ouater
Catalan
Etymology
Noun
ouater m (plural ouaters, feminine ouatera, feminine plural ouateres)
- synonym of ouataire (“egg-seller”)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “ouater”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
ouater
- to cotton-wool (cover with cotton wool)
Conjugation
Conjugation of ouater (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ouater | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | ouatant /wa.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ouaté /wa.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | ouate /wat/ |
ouates /wat/ |
ouate /wat/ |
ouatons /wa.tɔ̃/ |
ouatez /wa.te/ |
ouatent /wat/ |
| imperfect | ouatais /wa.tɛ/ |
ouatais /wa.tɛ/ |
ouatait /wa.tɛ/ |
ouations /wa.tjɔ̃/ |
ouatiez /wa.tje/ |
ouataient /wa.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ouatai /wa.te/ |
ouatas /wa.ta/ |
ouata /wa.ta/ |
ouatâmes /wa.tam/ |
ouatâtes /wa.tat/ |
ouatèrent /wa.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | ouaterai /wa.tʁe/ |
ouateras /wa.tʁa/ |
ouatera /wa.tʁa/ |
ouaterons /wa.tʁɔ̃/ |
ouaterez /wa.tʁe/ |
ouateront /wa.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ouaterais /wa.tʁɛ/ |
ouaterais /wa.tʁɛ/ |
ouaterait /wa.tʁɛ/ |
ouaterions /wa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ouateriez /wa.tə.ʁje/ |
ouateraient /wa.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 | ouate /wat/ |
ouates /wat/ |
ouate /wat/ |
ouations /wa.tjɔ̃/ |
ouatiez /wa.tje/ |
ouatent /wat/ |
| imperfect2 | ouatasse /wa.tas/ |
ouatasses /wa.tas/ |
ouatât /wa.ta/ |
ouatassions /wa.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
ouatassiez /wa.ta.sje/ |
ouatassent /wa.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ouate /wat/ |
— | ouatons /wa.tɔ̃/ |
ouatez /wa.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
- “ouater”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012