sauter
English
Etymology 1
Noun
sauter (plural sauters)
Etymology 2
Verb
sauter (third-person singular simple present sauters, present participle sautering, simple past and past participle sautered)
Etymology 3
Due to American pronunciation.
Noun
sauter (uncountable)
- Misspelling of solder.
Verb
sauter (third-person singular simple present sauters, present participle sautering, simple past and past participle sautered)
- Misspelling of solder.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French, from Latin saltāre. Cognate with Spanish saltar.
Pronunciation
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
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
Related terms
Descendants
- → Turkish: sote (via past participle)
Further reading
- “sauter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
- psauter, psautere, psawter, psawtere, salter, sautyer, sawteer, sawter
- psalteer, psaltyre, psaulter, psaultier, saulter, sauteer, sautier, sautiere, sautir, sawghter, sawtar, sawtere, sawtier, sawtiere, sawtire, sawtur, sawtyre (Late Middle English)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French sautier, saltier, from Late Latin psaltērium, from Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion), replacing Old English psalter. Doublet of sauterie.
Pronunciation
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.
Norman
Etymology
From Old French, from Latin saltō, saltāre.
Pronunciation
Verb
sauter
Scots
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Noun
sauter (plural sauters)
- salter (maker of salt)
- one who can do severe things
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