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ôter
ôter
French
Verb
ôter
- to take away, remove
- to take off, remove (clothes, etc.)
- 1829, Victor Hugo, Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné
- Le guichetier de garde vient d’entrer dans mon cachot, il a ôté sa casquette, m’a salué, s’est excusé de me déranger et m’a demandé, en adoucissant de son mieux sa rude voix, ce que je désirais à déjeuner.
- The duty hatchman just came into my cell, took off his cap, gave me a salute, said he was sorry for bothering me and asked me, whispering as best he could with his rough voice, what I wanted for lunch.
- Le guichetier de garde vient d’entrer dans mon cachot, il a ôté sa casquette, m’a salué, s’est excusé de me déranger et m’a demandé, en adoucissant de son mieux sa rude voix, ce que je désirais à déjeuner.
- 1829, Victor Hugo, Le Dernier Jour d’un condamné
- to remove, cut (text etc.); to take away (in arithmetic)
- to take (something) away from someone; to deprive
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to move oneself, get out of the way
Conjugation
Conjugation of ôter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | ôter | avoir ôté | |||||
gerund | en ôtant | en ayant ôté | |||||
present participle | ôtant /o.tɑ̃/ |
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past participle | ôté /o.te/ |
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person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
simple tenses |
present | ôte /ot/ |
ôtes /ot/ |
ôte /ot/ |
ôtons /o.tɔ̃/ |
ôtez /o.te/ |
ôtent /ot/ |
imperfect | ôtais /o.tɛ/ |
ôtais /o.tɛ/ |
ôtait /o.tɛ/ |
ôtions /o.tjɔ̃/ |
ôtiez /o.tje/ |
ôtaient /o.tɛ/ |
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past historic1 | ôtai /o.te/ |
ôtas /o.ta/ |
ôta /o.ta/ |
ôtâmes /o.tam/ |
ôtâtes /o.tat/ |
ôtèrent /o.tɛʁ/ |
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future | ôterai /o.tʁe/ |
ôteras /o.tʁa/ |
ôtera /o.tʁa/ |
ôterons /o.tʁɔ̃/ |
ôterez /o.tʁe/ |
ôteront /o.tʁɔ̃/ |
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conditional | ôterais /o.tʁɛ/ |
ôterais /o.tʁɛ/ |
ôterait /o.tʁɛ/ |
ôterions /o.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ôteriez /o.tə.ʁje/ |
ôteraient /o.tʁɛ/ |
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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 | ôte /ot/ |
ôtes /ot/ |
ôte /ot/ |
ôtions /o.tjɔ̃/ |
ôtiez /o.tje/ |
ôtent /ot/ |
imperfect1 |
ôtasse /o.tas/ |
ôtasses /o.tas/ |
ôtât /o.ta/ |
ôtassions /o.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
ôtassiez /o.ta.sje/ |
ôtassent /o.tas/ |
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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 | – | |
— | ôte /ot/ |
— | ôtons /o.tɔ̃/ |
ôtez /o.te/ |
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1literary tenses |
Anagrams
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Etymology
From Old French oster, from Latin obstō, obstāre, from ob (“before, in front”) + stō, stāre (“stand”).
Verb
ôter
Antonyms
- mettre (“to put”)