terreauter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ.ʁo.te/, /te.ʁo.te/

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Verb

terreauter

1. to compost
2. to loam

Conjugation

Conjugation of terreauter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	terreauter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	terreautant /tɛ.ʁo.tɑ̃/ or /te.ʁo.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		terreauté /tɛ.ʁo.te/ or /te.ʁo.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	terreaute /tɛ.ʁot/ or /te.ʁot/	terreautes /tɛ.ʁot/ or /te.ʁot/	terreaute /tɛ.ʁot/ or /te.ʁot/	terreautons /tɛ.ʁo.tɔ̃/ or /te.ʁo.tɔ̃/	terreautez /tɛ.ʁo.te/ or /te.ʁo.te/	terreautent /tɛ.ʁot/ or /te.ʁot/
	imperfect	terreautais /tɛ.ʁo.tɛ/ or /te.ʁo.tɛ/	terreautais /tɛ.ʁo.tɛ/ or /te.ʁo.tɛ/	terreautait /tɛ.ʁo.tɛ/ or /te.ʁo.tɛ/	terreautions /tɛ.ʁo.tjɔ̃/ or /te.ʁo.tjɔ̃/	terreautiez /tɛ.ʁo.tje/ or /te.ʁo.tje/	terreautaient /tɛ.ʁo.tɛ/ or /te.ʁo.tɛ/
	past historic2	terreautai /tɛ.ʁo.te/ or /te.ʁo.te/	terreautas /tɛ.ʁo.ta/ or /te.ʁo.ta/	terreauta /tɛ.ʁo.ta/ or /te.ʁo.ta/	terreautâmes /tɛ.ʁo.tam/ or /te.ʁo.tam/	terreautâtes /tɛ.ʁo.tat/ or /te.ʁo.tat/	terreautèrent /tɛ.ʁo.tɛʁ/ or /te.ʁo.tɛʁ/
	future	terreauterai /tɛ.ʁo.tʁe/ or /te.ʁo.tʁe/	terreauteras /tɛ.ʁo.tʁa/ or /te.ʁo.tʁa/	terreautera /tɛ.ʁo.tʁa/ or /te.ʁo.tʁa/	terreauterons /tɛ.ʁo.tʁɔ̃/ or /te.ʁo.tʁɔ̃/	terreauterez /tɛ.ʁo.tʁe/ or /te.ʁo.tʁe/	terreauteront /tɛ.ʁo.tʁɔ̃/ or /te.ʁo.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	terreauterais /tɛ.ʁo.tʁɛ/ or /te.ʁo.tʁɛ/	terreauterais /tɛ.ʁo.tʁɛ/ or /te.ʁo.tʁɛ/	terreauterait /tɛ.ʁo.tʁɛ/ or /te.ʁo.tʁɛ/	terreauterions /tɛ.ʁo.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /te.ʁo.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	terreauteriez /tɛ.ʁo.tə.ʁje/ or /te.ʁo.tə.ʁje/	terreauteraient /tɛ.ʁo.tʁɛ/ or /te.ʁo.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	terreaute /tɛ.ʁot/ or /te.ʁot/	terreautes /tɛ.ʁot/ or /te.ʁot/	terreaute /tɛ.ʁot/ or /te.ʁot/	terreautions /tɛ.ʁo.tjɔ̃/ or /te.ʁo.tjɔ̃/	terreautiez /tɛ.ʁo.tje/ or /te.ʁo.tje/	terreautent /tɛ.ʁot/ or /te.ʁot/
	imperfect2	terreautasse /tɛ.ʁo.tas/ or /te.ʁo.tas/	terreautasses /tɛ.ʁo.tas/ or /te.ʁo.tas/	terreautât /tɛ.ʁo.ta/ or /te.ʁo.ta/	terreautassions /tɛ.ʁo.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /te.ʁo.ta.sjɔ̃/	terreautassiez /tɛ.ʁo.ta.sje/ or /te.ʁo.ta.sje/	terreautassent /tɛ.ʁo.tas/ or /te.ʁo.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	terreaute /tɛ.ʁot/ or /te.ʁot/	—	terreautons /tɛ.ʁo.tɔ̃/ or /te.ʁo.tɔ̃/	terreautez /tɛ.ʁo.te/ or /te.ʁo.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).

Derived terms

• terreautage

Further reading

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