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saulter
saulter
Middle French
Verb
saulter
- to jump (move oneself into the air, leaving contact with the ground)
- 1534, François Rabelais, Gargantua:
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Cent diables me saultent au corps
- A hundred devils are jumping on my body
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Cent diables me saultent au corps
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Conjugation
- Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.
Conjugation of saulter
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | saulter | avoir saulté | |||||
| gerund | en saultant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | saultant | ||||||
| past participle | saulté | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | ie (may be i' before a vowel) | tu | il | nous | vous | ilz, elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | saulte | saultes | saulte | saultons | saultez | saultent |
| imperfect | saultois, saultoys | saultois, saultoys | saultoit, saultoyt | saultions, saultyons | saultiez, saultyez | saultoient, saultoyent | |
| past historic | saulta | saultas | saulta | saultasmes | saultastes | saulterent | |
| future | saulterai, saulteray | saulteras | saultera | saulterons | saulterez | saulteront | |
| conditional | saulterois, saulteroys | saulterois, saulteroys | saulteroit, saulteroyt | saulterions, saulteryons | saulteriez, saulteryez | saulteroient, saulteroyent | |
| 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 anterior | 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 ie | que tu | qu'il | que nous | que vous | qu'ilz, qu'elles | |
| simple tenses |
present | saulte | saultes | saulte | saultons | saultez | saultent |
| imperfect | saultasse | saultasses | saultast | saultassions | saultassiez | saultassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | saulte | — | saultons | saultez | — | ||
Related terms
Descendants
- French: sauter