Grammatical class
Inflected form
flotte
(first/third-person,singular,present,indicative/subjunctive, second-person,singular,imperative) flotter
Variants
Sentences
Le bois flotte.
Wood floats.
Le drapeau flotte au vent.
The flag is fluttering in the wind.
Pourquoi la glace flotte ?
Why does ice float?
Il flotte mais ne sombre pas.
It is tossed by the waves, but does not sink.
Beurk, il y a un cheveu qui flotte dans la soupe.
Yuck, there's a hair floating in the soup.
Une pierre ne flotte pas.
A stone does not float.
Elle flotte, elle hésite : en un mot, elle est femme.
She wavers, she dithers: in one word, a woman.
Le bois flotte, mais le fer coule.
Wood floats, but iron sinks.
Oh, dites-moi, est-ce que la bannière étoilée flotte encore sur la terre de la liberté et la patrie des braves ?
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?