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rouler
rouler
French
Verb
rouler
- to roll
- to revolve
- (colloquial) to go (of events, to proceed)
- Ça roule bien chez mon ami.
- It's going well at my friend's house.
- Ça roule bien chez mon ami.
- (of a vehicle) to work, to function
- (intransitive) to drive (a vehicle)
- On a roulé à 80 km à l'heure.
- We were driving 80 km an hour.
- Il roule en Rolls
- He drives a Rolls.
- Elle roule dans un véhicule neuf.
- She drives a new vehicle.
- On a roulé à 80 km à l'heure.
- (colloquial) to dupe, to trick
- se faire rouler ― to be tricked, to be duped
Conjugation
Conjugation of rouler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | rouler | avoir roulé | |||||
| gerund | en roulant | en ayant roulé | |||||
| present participle | roulant /ʁu.lɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | roulé /ʁu.le/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | roule /ʁul/ |
roules /ʁul/ |
roule /ʁul/ |
roulons /ʁu.lɔ̃/ |
roulez /ʁu.le/ |
roulent /ʁul/ |
| imperfect | roulais /ʁu.lɛ/ |
roulais /ʁu.lɛ/ |
roulait /ʁu.lɛ/ |
roulions /ʁu.ljɔ̃/ |
rouliez /ʁu.lje/ |
roulaient /ʁu.lɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | roulai /ʁu.le/ |
roulas /ʁu.la/ |
roula /ʁu.la/ |
roulâmes /ʁu.lam/ |
roulâtes /ʁu.lat/ |
roulèrent /ʁu.lɛʁ/ |
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| future | roulerai /ʁul.ʁe/ |
rouleras /ʁul.ʁa/ |
roulera /ʁul.ʁa/ |
roulerons /ʁul.ʁɔ̃/ |
roulerez /ʁul.ʁe/ |
rouleront /ʁul.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | roulerais /ʁul.ʁɛ/ |
roulerais /ʁul.ʁɛ/ |
roulerait /ʁul.ʁɛ/ |
roulerions /ʁu.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rouleriez /ʁu.lə.ʁje/ |
rouleraient /ʁul.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | roule /ʁul/ |
roules /ʁul/ |
roule /ʁul/ |
roulions /ʁu.ljɔ̃/ |
rouliez /ʁu.lje/ |
roulent /ʁul/ |
| imperfect1 |
roulasse /ʁu.las/ |
roulasses /ʁu.las/ |
roulât /ʁu.la/ |
roulassions /ʁu.la.sjɔ̃/ |
roulassiez /ʁu.la.sje/ |
roulassent /ʁu.las/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | roule /ʁul/ |
— | roulons /ʁu.lɔ̃/ |
roulez /ʁu.le/ |
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