arroser

See also: arrôser

French

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *arrōsāre, from Latin rōs (“dew”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ʁo.ze/

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Verb

arroser

1. to water (e.g. plants)

   J’arrose mes beaux tournesols ― I water my beautiful sunflowers

2. to sprinkle
3. to squirt
4. to spray

   arroser de balles ― spray with bullets

5. to celebrate (with a drink)

   arroser une victoire ― to celebrate a victory (by drinking)

6. to grease someone's palm, to bribe

Conjugation

Conjugation of arroser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	arroser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	arrosant /a.ʁo.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		arrosé /a.ʁo.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	arrose /a.ʁoz/	arroses /a.ʁoz/	arrose /a.ʁoz/	arrosons /a.ʁo.zɔ̃/	arrosez /a.ʁo.ze/	arrosent /a.ʁoz/
	imperfect	arrosais /a.ʁo.zɛ/	arrosais /a.ʁo.zɛ/	arrosait /a.ʁo.zɛ/	arrosions /a.ʁo.zjɔ̃/	arrosiez /a.ʁo.zje/	arrosaient /a.ʁo.zɛ/
	past historic2	arrosai /a.ʁo.ze/	arrosas /a.ʁo.za/	arrosa /a.ʁo.za/	arrosâmes /a.ʁo.zam/	arrosâtes /a.ʁo.zat/	arrosèrent /a.ʁo.zɛʁ/
	future	arroserai /a.ʁoz.ʁe/	arroseras /a.ʁoz.ʁa/	arrosera /a.ʁoz.ʁa/	arroserons /a.ʁoz.ʁɔ̃/	arroserez /a.ʁoz.ʁe/	arroseront /a.ʁoz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	arroserais /a.ʁoz.ʁɛ/	arroserais /a.ʁoz.ʁɛ/	arroserait /a.ʁoz.ʁɛ/	arroserions /a.ʁo.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	arroseriez /a.ʁo.zə.ʁje/	arroseraient /a.ʁoz.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	arrose /a.ʁoz/	arroses /a.ʁoz/	arrose /a.ʁoz/	arrosions /a.ʁo.zjɔ̃/	arrosiez /a.ʁo.zje/	arrosent /a.ʁoz/
	imperfect2	arrosasse /a.ʁo.zas/	arrosasses /a.ʁo.zas/	arrosât /a.ʁo.za/	arrosassions /a.ʁo.za.sjɔ̃/	arrosassiez /a.ʁo.za.sje/	arrosassent /a.ʁo.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	arrose /a.ʁoz/	—	arrosons /a.ʁo.zɔ̃/	arrosez /a.ʁo.ze/	—
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

• arrosage
• arroseur
• arrosoir

Further reading

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