ballotter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.lɔ.te/

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Verb

ballotter

1. (transitive) to toss (around), to jolt
2. (transitive or intransitive, archaic) to ballot: to vote using a ballot
   • 1793, National Convention, Acte constitutionnel [Constitutional Act], Paris: Imprimerie de P. L. Siret, page 9:

     En cas d’égalité de voix, le plus âgé a la préférence, soit pour être ballotté, soit pour être élu.

     In case of an equality of votes, the most aged has the preference, whether [as the one] to be voted [for] or [as the one] to be elected.

Conjugation

Conjugation of ballotter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ballotter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ballottant /ba.lɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ballotté /ba.lɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ballotte /ba.lɔt/	ballottes /ba.lɔt/	ballotte /ba.lɔt/	ballottons /ba.lɔ.tɔ̃/	ballottez /ba.lɔ.te/	ballottent /ba.lɔt/
	imperfect	ballottais /ba.lɔ.tɛ/	ballottais /ba.lɔ.tɛ/	ballottait /ba.lɔ.tɛ/	ballottions /ba.lɔ.tjɔ̃/	ballottiez /ba.lɔ.tje/	ballottaient /ba.lɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	ballottai /ba.lɔ.te/	ballottas /ba.lɔ.ta/	ballotta /ba.lɔ.ta/	ballottâmes /ba.lɔ.tam/	ballottâtes /ba.lɔ.tat/	ballottèrent /ba.lɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	ballotterai /ba.lɔ.tʁe/	ballotteras /ba.lɔ.tʁa/	ballottera /ba.lɔ.tʁa/	ballotterons /ba.lɔ.tʁɔ̃/	ballotterez /ba.lɔ.tʁe/	ballotteront /ba.lɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ballotterais /ba.lɔ.tʁɛ/	ballotterais /ba.lɔ.tʁɛ/	ballotterait /ba.lɔ.tʁɛ/	ballotterions /ba.lɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	ballotteriez /ba.lɔ.tə.ʁje/	ballotteraient /ba.lɔ.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	ballotte /ba.lɔt/	ballottes /ba.lɔt/	ballotte /ba.lɔt/	ballottions /ba.lɔ.tjɔ̃/	ballottiez /ba.lɔ.tje/	ballottent /ba.lɔt/
	imperfect2	ballottasse /ba.lɔ.tas/	ballottasses /ba.lɔ.tas/	ballottât /ba.lɔ.ta/	ballottassions /ba.lɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	ballottassiez /ba.lɔ.ta.sje/	ballottassent /ba.lɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ballotte /ba.lɔt/	—	ballottons /ba.lɔ.tɔ̃/	ballottez /ba.lɔ.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

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