foudroyer
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fu.dʁwa.je/
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Verb
foudroyer
- to strike (of lightning)
- to devastate; to cause to be thunderstruck
- 1973, “La Maladie d'amour”, performed by Michel Sardou:
- Elle foudroie dans la rue / Cet inconnu qui passe / Et qui n’oubliera plus /Ce parfum qui volait
- She strikes down in the street / That unknown passer-by/ Who will never forget / That perfume in the air
Conjugation
This verb is part of a large group of -er verbs that conjugate like noyer or ennuyer. These verbs always replace the 'y' with an 'i' before a silent 'e'.
Conjugation of foudroyer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | foudroyer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | foudroyant /fu.dʁwa.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | foudroyé /fu.dʁwa.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | foudroie /fu.dʁwa/ |
foudroies /fu.dʁwa/ |
foudroie /fu.dʁwa/ |
foudroyons /fu.dʁwa.jɔ̃/ |
foudroyez /fu.dʁwa.je/ |
foudroient /fu.dʁwa/ |
| imperfect | foudroyais /fu.dʁwa.jɛ/ |
foudroyais /fu.dʁwa.jɛ/ |
foudroyait /fu.dʁwa.jɛ/ |
foudroyions /fu.dʁwaj.jɔ̃/ |
foudroyiez /fu.dʁwaj.je/ |
foudroyaient /fu.dʁwa.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | foudroyai /fu.dʁwa.je/ |
foudroyas /fu.dʁwa.ja/ |
foudroya /fu.dʁwa.ja/ |
foudroyâmes /fu.dʁwa.jam/ |
foudroyâtes /fu.dʁwa.jat/ |
foudroyèrent /fu.dʁwa.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | foudroierai /fu.dʁwa.ʁe/ |
foudroieras /fu.dʁwa.ʁa/ |
foudroiera /fu.dʁwa.ʁa/ |
foudroierons /fu.dʁwa.ʁɔ̃/ |
foudroierez /fu.dʁwa.ʁe/ |
foudroieront /fu.dʁwa.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | foudroierais /fu.dʁwa.ʁɛ/ |
foudroierais /fu.dʁwa.ʁɛ/ |
foudroierait /fu.dʁwa.ʁɛ/ |
foudroierions /fu.dʁwa.ʁjɔ̃/ |
foudroieriez /fu.dʁwa.ʁje/ |
foudroieraient /fu.dʁwa.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 | foudroie /fu.dʁwa/ |
foudroies /fu.dʁwa/ |
foudroie /fu.dʁwa/ |
foudroyions /fu.dʁwaj.jɔ̃/ |
foudroyiez /fu.dʁwaj.je/ |
foudroient /fu.dʁwa/ |
| imperfect2 | foudroyasse /fu.dʁwa.jas/ |
foudroyasses /fu.dʁwa.jas/ |
foudroyât /fu.dʁwa.ja/ |
foudroyassions /fu.dʁwa.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
foudroyassiez /fu.dʁwa.ja.sje/ |
foudroyassent /fu.dʁwa.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | foudroie /fu.dʁwa/ |
— | foudroyons /fu.dʁwa.jɔ̃/ |
foudroyez /fu.dʁwa.je/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “foudroyer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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