violer

English

Etymology

From viol +‎ -er.

Noun

violer (plural violers)

1. (archaic) A musician who plays the viol.

Anagrams

• Oliver, oliver, virole

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin violāre (“to treat with violence; to maltreat; to violate, to defile, to profane”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vjɔ.le/

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• Homophones: violé, violés, violée, violées, violez, violai

Verb

violer

1. (transitive) to violate
2. (transitive) to rape, to have sex with an unwilling partner

Conjugation

Conjugation of violer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	violer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	violant /vjɔ.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		violé /vjɔ.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	viole /vjɔl/	violes /vjɔl/	viole /vjɔl/	violons /vjɔ.lɔ̃/	violez /vjɔ.le/	violent /vjɔl/
	imperfect	violais /vjɔ.lɛ/	violais /vjɔ.lɛ/	violait /vjɔ.lɛ/	violions /vjɔ.ljɔ̃/	violiez /vjɔ.lje/	violaient /vjɔ.lɛ/
	past historic2	violai /vjɔ.le/	violas /vjɔ.la/	viola /vjɔ.la/	violâmes /vjɔ.lam/	violâtes /vjɔ.lat/	violèrent /vjɔ.lɛʁ/
	future	violerai /vjɔl.ʁe/	violeras /vjɔl.ʁa/	violera /vjɔl.ʁa/	violerons /vjɔl.ʁɔ̃/	violerez /vjɔl.ʁe/	violeront /vjɔl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	violerais /vjɔl.ʁɛ/	violerais /vjɔl.ʁɛ/	violerait /vjɔl.ʁɛ/	violerions /vjɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	violeriez /vjɔ.lə.ʁje/	violeraient /vjɔl.ʁɛ/
(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	viole /vjɔl/	violes /vjɔl/	viole /vjɔl/	violions /vjɔ.ljɔ̃/	violiez /vjɔ.lje/	violent /vjɔl/
	imperfect2	violasse /vjɔ.las/	violasses /vjɔ.las/	violât /vjɔ.la/	violassions /vjɔ.la.sjɔ̃/	violassiez /vjɔ.la.sje/	violassent /vjɔ.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	viole /vjɔl/	—	violons /vjɔ.lɔ̃/	violez /vjɔ.le/	—
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).

Related terms

• viol
• violateur
• violeur/violeuse

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• voiler

Latin

Verb

violer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of violō

Swedish

Noun

violer

1. indefinite plural of viol