ouater

French

Etymology

From ouate +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa.te/

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Verb

ouater

1. to cotton-wool (cover with cotton wool)

Conjugation

Conjugation of ouater (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ouater
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ouatant /wa.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ouaté /wa.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ouate /wat/	ouates /wat/	ouate /wat/	ouatons /wa.tɔ̃/	ouatez /wa.te/	ouatent /wat/
	imperfect	ouatais /wa.tɛ/	ouatais /wa.tɛ/	ouatait /wa.tɛ/	ouations /wa.tjɔ̃/	ouatiez /wa.tje/	ouataient /wa.tɛ/
	past historic2	ouatai /wa.te/	ouatas /wa.ta/	ouata /wa.ta/	ouatâmes /wa.tam/	ouatâtes /wa.tat/	ouatèrent /wa.tɛʁ/
	future	ouaterai /wa.tʁe/	ouateras /wa.tʁa/	ouatera /wa.tʁa/	ouaterons /wa.tʁɔ̃/	ouaterez /wa.tʁe/	ouateront /wa.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ouaterais /wa.tʁɛ/	ouaterais /wa.tʁɛ/	ouaterait /wa.tʁɛ/	ouaterions /wa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	ouateriez /wa.tə.ʁje/	ouateraient /wa.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	ouate /wat/	ouates /wat/	ouate /wat/	ouations /wa.tjɔ̃/	ouatiez /wa.tje/	ouatent /wat/
	imperfect2	ouatasse /wa.tas/	ouatasses /wa.tas/	ouatât /wa.ta/	ouatassions /wa.ta.sjɔ̃/	ouatassiez /wa.ta.sje/	ouatassent /wa.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ouate /wat/	—	ouatons /wa.tɔ̃/	ouatez /wa.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).

Further reading

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