fricoter
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fʁi.kɔ.te/
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Verb
fricoter
- (ambitransitive) to cook a stew
- (ambitransitive) to flirt, knock about (with)
Conjugation
Conjugation of fricoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fricoter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fricotant /fʁi.kɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fricoté /fʁi.kɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | fricote /fʁi.kɔt/ |
fricotes /fʁi.kɔt/ |
fricote /fʁi.kɔt/ |
fricotons /fʁi.kɔ.tɔ̃/ |
fricotez /fʁi.kɔ.te/ |
fricotent /fʁi.kɔt/ |
| imperfect | fricotais /fʁi.kɔ.tɛ/ |
fricotais /fʁi.kɔ.tɛ/ |
fricotait /fʁi.kɔ.tɛ/ |
fricotions /fʁi.kɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
fricotiez /fʁi.kɔ.tje/ |
fricotaient /fʁi.kɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fricotai /fʁi.kɔ.te/ |
fricotas /fʁi.kɔ.ta/ |
fricota /fʁi.kɔ.ta/ |
fricotâmes /fʁi.kɔ.tam/ |
fricotâtes /fʁi.kɔ.tat/ |
fricotèrent /fʁi.kɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | fricoterai /fʁi.kɔ.tʁe/ |
fricoteras /fʁi.kɔ.tʁa/ |
fricotera /fʁi.kɔ.tʁa/ |
fricoterons /fʁi.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
fricoterez /fʁi.kɔ.tʁe/ |
fricoteront /fʁi.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fricoterais /fʁi.kɔ.tʁɛ/ |
fricoterais /fʁi.kɔ.tʁɛ/ |
fricoterait /fʁi.kɔ.tʁɛ/ |
fricoterions /fʁi.kɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fricoteriez /fʁi.kɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
fricoteraient /fʁi.kɔ.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 | fricote /fʁi.kɔt/ |
fricotes /fʁi.kɔt/ |
fricote /fʁi.kɔt/ |
fricotions /fʁi.kɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
fricotiez /fʁi.kɔ.tje/ |
fricotent /fʁi.kɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | fricotasse /fʁi.kɔ.tas/ |
fricotasses /fʁi.kɔ.tas/ |
fricotât /fʁi.kɔ.ta/ |
fricotassions /fʁi.kɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
fricotassiez /fʁi.kɔ.ta.sje/ |
fricotassent /fʁi.kɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fricote /fʁi.kɔt/ |
— | fricotons /fʁi.kɔ.tɔ̃/ |
fricotez /fʁi.kɔ.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “fricoter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.