pirouetter
English
Etymology
Noun
pirouetter (plural pirouetters)
- One who pirouettes.
- 1872 September – 1873 July, Thomas Hardy, A Pair of Blue Eyes. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Tinsley Brothers, […], published 1873, →OCLC:
- Elfride saw her father then, and went away into the wind, being caught by a gust as she ascended the churchyard slope, in which gust she had the motions, without the motives, of a hoiden; the grace, without the self-consciousness, of a pirouetter.
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.ʁwɛ.te/ ~ /pi.ʁwe.te/
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Verb
pirouetter
Conjugation
Conjugation of pirouetter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pirouetter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pirouettant /pi.ʁwɛ.tɑ̃/ or /pi.ʁwe.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pirouetté /pi.ʁwɛ.te/ or /pi.ʁwe.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pirouette /pi.ʁwɛt/ |
pirouettes /pi.ʁwɛt/ |
pirouette /pi.ʁwɛt/ |
pirouettons /pi.ʁwɛ.tɔ̃/ or /pi.ʁwe.tɔ̃/ |
pirouettez /pi.ʁwɛ.te/ or /pi.ʁwe.te/ |
pirouettent /pi.ʁwɛt/ |
| imperfect | pirouettais /pi.ʁwɛ.tɛ/ or /pi.ʁwe.tɛ/ |
pirouettais /pi.ʁwɛ.tɛ/ or /pi.ʁwe.tɛ/ |
pirouettait /pi.ʁwɛ.tɛ/ or /pi.ʁwe.tɛ/ |
pirouettions /pi.ʁwɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /pi.ʁwe.tjɔ̃/ |
pirouettiez /pi.ʁwɛ.tje/ or /pi.ʁwe.tje/ |
pirouettaient /pi.ʁwɛ.tɛ/ or /pi.ʁwe.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pirouettai /pi.ʁwɛ.te/ or /pi.ʁwe.te/ |
pirouettas /pi.ʁwɛ.ta/ or /pi.ʁwe.ta/ |
pirouetta /pi.ʁwɛ.ta/ or /pi.ʁwe.ta/ |
pirouettâmes /pi.ʁwɛ.tam/ or /pi.ʁwe.tam/ |
pirouettâtes /pi.ʁwɛ.tat/ or /pi.ʁwe.tat/ |
pirouettèrent /pi.ʁwɛ.tɛʁ/ or /pi.ʁwe.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | pirouetterai /pi.ʁwɛ.tʁe/ or /pi.ʁwe.tʁe/ |
pirouetteras /pi.ʁwɛ.tʁa/ or /pi.ʁwe.tʁa/ |
pirouettera /pi.ʁwɛ.tʁa/ or /pi.ʁwe.tʁa/ |
pirouetterons /pi.ʁwɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /pi.ʁwe.tʁɔ̃/ |
pirouetterez /pi.ʁwɛ.tʁe/ or /pi.ʁwe.tʁe/ |
pirouetteront /pi.ʁwɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /pi.ʁwe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pirouetterais /pi.ʁwɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pi.ʁwe.tʁɛ/ |
pirouetterais /pi.ʁwɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pi.ʁwe.tʁɛ/ |
pirouetterait /pi.ʁwɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pi.ʁwe.tʁɛ/ |
pirouetterions /pi.ʁwɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pi.ʁwe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pirouetteriez /pi.ʁwɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /pi.ʁwe.tə.ʁje/ |
pirouetteraient /pi.ʁwɛ.tʁɛ/ or /pi.ʁwe.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 | pirouette /pi.ʁwɛt/ |
pirouettes /pi.ʁwɛt/ |
pirouette /pi.ʁwɛt/ |
pirouettions /pi.ʁwɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /pi.ʁwe.tjɔ̃/ |
pirouettiez /pi.ʁwɛ.tje/ or /pi.ʁwe.tje/ |
pirouettent /pi.ʁwɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | pirouettasse /pi.ʁwɛ.tas/ or /pi.ʁwe.tas/ |
pirouettasses /pi.ʁwɛ.tas/ or /pi.ʁwe.tas/ |
pirouettât /pi.ʁwɛ.ta/ or /pi.ʁwe.ta/ |
pirouettassions /pi.ʁwɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /pi.ʁwe.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
pirouettassiez /pi.ʁwɛ.ta.sje/ or /pi.ʁwe.ta.sje/ |
pirouettassent /pi.ʁwɛ.tas/ or /pi.ʁwe.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pirouette /pi.ʁwɛt/ |
— | pirouettons /pi.ʁwɛ.tɔ̃/ or /pi.ʁwe.tɔ̃/ |
pirouettez /pi.ʁwɛ.te/ or /pi.ʁwe.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). | |||||||
Descendants
- → Dutch: pirouetteren
- → German: pirouettieren
Further reading
- “pirouetter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012