sauter
See also: Sauter
English
Verb
sauter (third-person singular simple present sauters, present participle sautering, simple past and past participle sautered)
- Dated form of sauté.
Etymology 3
Due to American pronunciation.
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French, from Latin saltāre. Cognate with Spanish saltar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /so.te/
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Verb
sauter
- (intransitive) to jump, leap
- Je saute sur mon lit. ― I'm jumping on my bed.
- (transitive) to jump over
- (transitive) to sauté
- (transitive, slang) to bang, hump, have sex with
- Je l’ai sauté(e) sur mon lit. ― I banged him/her on my bed.
- (transitive) to skip (pass from one step directly to a later step without going through the intervening ones)
- Leur fille est brillante, elle a sauté deux années.
- Their daughter is brilliant, she has skipped two years
- (intransitive) to explode
Conjugation
Conjugation of sauter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | sauter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | sautant /so.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | sauté /so.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | saute /sot/ |
sautes /sot/ |
saute /sot/ |
sautons /so.tɔ̃/ |
sautez /so.te/ |
sautent /sot/ |
imperfect | sautais /so.tɛ/ |
sautais /so.tɛ/ |
sautait /so.tɛ/ |
sautions /so.tjɔ̃/ |
sautiez /so.tje/ |
sautaient /so.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | sautai /so.te/ |
sautas /so.ta/ |
sauta /so.ta/ |
sautâmes /so.tam/ |
sautâtes /so.tat/ |
sautèrent /so.tɛʁ/ | |
future | sauterai /so.tʁe/ |
sauteras /so.tʁa/ |
sautera /so.tʁa/ |
sauterons /so.tʁɔ̃/ |
sauterez /so.tʁe/ |
sauteront /so.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | sauterais /so.tʁɛ/ |
sauterais /so.tʁɛ/ |
sauterait /so.tʁɛ/ |
sauterions /so.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
sauteriez /so.tə.ʁje/ |
sauteraient /so.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 | saute /sot/ |
sautes /sot/ |
saute /sot/ |
sautions /so.tjɔ̃/ |
sautiez /so.tje/ |
sautent /sot/ |
imperfect2 | sautasse /so.tas/ |
sautasses /so.tas/ |
sautât /so.ta/ |
sautassions /so.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
sautassiez /so.ta.sje/ |
sautassent /so.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | saute /sot/ |
— | sautons /so.tɔ̃/ |
sautez /so.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). |
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Turkish: sote (via past participle)
Further reading
- “sauter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French sautier, saltier, from Late Latin psaltērium, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion), replacing Old English psalter. Doublet of sauterie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sau̯ˈteːr/, /ˈsau̯tər/
Noun
sauter (plural sauters)
- The Biblical book of Psalms; the section of the Bible containing psalms.
- A psalm (hymn in the Book of Psalms)
- A psalter; a book containing psalms and related material.
- A psaltery (lute-like string instrument)
Descendants
- English: psalter
References
- “sautē̆r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsɑːtər], [ˈsɔːtər]
- (Northern Scots, Insular Scots) IPA(key): [ˈsaːtər]
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