ajouter

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French ajouster, from Vulgar Latin *adiuxtāre, *adjuxtāre, present active infinitive of *adiuxtō, from Latin ad + juxta. Cf. also ajuster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ʒu.te/

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Verb

ajouter

1. to add, append

Conjugation

Conjugation of ajouter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ajouter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ajoutant /a.ʒu.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ajouté /a.ʒu.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ajoute /a.ʒut/	ajoutes /a.ʒut/	ajoute /a.ʒut/	ajoutons /a.ʒu.tɔ̃/	ajoutez /a.ʒu.te/	ajoutent /a.ʒut/
	imperfect	ajoutais /a.ʒu.tɛ/	ajoutais /a.ʒu.tɛ/	ajoutait /a.ʒu.tɛ/	ajoutions /a.ʒu.tjɔ̃/	ajoutiez /a.ʒu.tje/	ajoutaient /a.ʒu.tɛ/
	past historic2	ajoutai /a.ʒu.te/	ajoutas /a.ʒu.ta/	ajouta /a.ʒu.ta/	ajoutâmes /a.ʒu.tam/	ajoutâtes /a.ʒu.tat/	ajoutèrent /a.ʒu.tɛʁ/
	future	ajouterai /a.ʒu.tʁe/	ajouteras /a.ʒu.tʁa/	ajoutera /a.ʒu.tʁa/	ajouterons /a.ʒu.tʁɔ̃/	ajouterez /a.ʒu.tʁe/	ajouteront /a.ʒu.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ajouterais /a.ʒu.tʁɛ/	ajouterais /a.ʒu.tʁɛ/	ajouterait /a.ʒu.tʁɛ/	ajouterions /a.ʒu.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	ajouteriez /a.ʒu.tə.ʁje/	ajouteraient /a.ʒu.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	ajoute /a.ʒut/	ajoutes /a.ʒut/	ajoute /a.ʒut/	ajoutions /a.ʒu.tjɔ̃/	ajoutiez /a.ʒu.tje/	ajoutent /a.ʒut/
	imperfect2	ajoutasse /a.ʒu.tas/	ajoutasses /a.ʒu.tas/	ajoutât /a.ʒu.ta/	ajoutassions /a.ʒu.ta.sjɔ̃/	ajoutassiez /a.ʒu.ta.sje/	ajoutassent /a.ʒu.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ajoute /a.ʒut/	—	ajoutons /a.ʒu.tɔ̃/	ajoutez /a.ʒu.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).

Derived terms

• ajoutable
• ajoutage
• ajouter foi
• rajouter
• valeur ajoutée

Related terms

• jouter

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• joutera, rajoute, rajouté, rejouât