radoter
French
Etymology
From Old French redoter, from a Proto-West Germanic source..
Pronunciation
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Verb
radoter
- (intransitive) drivel (to talk nonsense)
Conjugation
Conjugation of radoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | radoter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | radotant /ʁa.dɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | radoté /ʁa.dɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | radote /ʁa.dɔt/ |
radotes /ʁa.dɔt/ |
radote /ʁa.dɔt/ |
radotons /ʁa.dɔ.tɔ̃/ |
radotez /ʁa.dɔ.te/ |
radotent /ʁa.dɔt/ |
| imperfect | radotais /ʁa.dɔ.tɛ/ |
radotais /ʁa.dɔ.tɛ/ |
radotait /ʁa.dɔ.tɛ/ |
radotions /ʁa.dɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
radotiez /ʁa.dɔ.tje/ |
radotaient /ʁa.dɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | radotai /ʁa.dɔ.te/ |
radotas /ʁa.dɔ.ta/ |
radota /ʁa.dɔ.ta/ |
radotâmes /ʁa.dɔ.tam/ |
radotâtes /ʁa.dɔ.tat/ |
radotèrent /ʁa.dɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | radoterai /ʁa.dɔ.tʁe/ |
radoteras /ʁa.dɔ.tʁa/ |
radotera /ʁa.dɔ.tʁa/ |
radoterons /ʁa.dɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
radoterez /ʁa.dɔ.tʁe/ |
radoteront /ʁa.dɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | radoterais /ʁa.dɔ.tʁɛ/ |
radoterais /ʁa.dɔ.tʁɛ/ |
radoterait /ʁa.dɔ.tʁɛ/ |
radoterions /ʁa.dɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
radoteriez /ʁa.dɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
radoteraient /ʁa.dɔ.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 | radote /ʁa.dɔt/ |
radotes /ʁa.dɔt/ |
radote /ʁa.dɔt/ |
radotions /ʁa.dɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
radotiez /ʁa.dɔ.tje/ |
radotent /ʁa.dɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | radotasse /ʁa.dɔ.tas/ |
radotasses /ʁa.dɔ.tas/ |
radotât /ʁa.dɔ.ta/ |
radotassions /ʁa.dɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
radotassiez /ʁa.dɔ.ta.sje/ |
radotassent /ʁa.dɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | radote /ʁa.dɔt/ |
— | radotons /ʁa.dɔ.tɔ̃/ |
radotez /ʁa.dɔ.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Descendants
- Haitian Creole: radote
Further reading
- “radoter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.