doigter
French
Etymology
doigt + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dwa.te/
Audio (file) - Homophones: doigté, doigtez
Verb
doigter
- (transitive, music) to finger, to put fingerings on a music sheet
- (transitive, sex) to finger, to flick off
Conjugation
Conjugation of doigter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | doigter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | doigtant /dwa.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | doigté /dwa.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | doigte /dwat/ | doigtes /dwat/ | doigte /dwat/ | doigtons /dwa.tɔ̃/ | doigtez /dwa.te/ | doigtent /dwat/ |
imperfect | doigtais /dwa.tɛ/ | doigtais /dwa.tɛ/ | doigtait /dwa.tɛ/ | doigtions /dwa.tjɔ̃/ | doigtiez /dwa.tje/ | doigtaient /dwa.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | doigtai /dwa.te/ | doigtas /dwa.ta/ | doigta /dwa.ta/ | doigtâmes /dwa.tam/ | doigtâtes /dwa.tat/ | doigtèrent /dwa.tɛʁ/ | |
future | doigterai /dwa.tʁe/ | doigteras /dwa.tʁa/ | doigtera /dwa.tʁa/ | doigterons /dwa.tʁɔ̃/ | doigterez /dwa.tʁe/ | doigteront /dwa.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | doigterais /dwa.tʁɛ/ | doigterais /dwa.tʁɛ/ | doigterait /dwa.tʁɛ/ | doigterions /dwa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | doigteriez /dwa.tə.ʁje/ | doigteraient /dwa.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 | doigte /dwat/ | doigtes /dwat/ | doigte /dwat/ | doigtions /dwa.tjɔ̃/ | doigtiez /dwa.tje/ | doigtent /dwat/ |
imperfect2 | doigtasse /dwa.tas/ | doigtasses /dwa.tas/ | doigtât /dwa.ta/ | doigtassions /dwa.ta.sjɔ̃/ | doigtassiez /dwa.ta.sje/ | doigtassent /dwa.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | doigte /dwat/ | — | doigtons /dwa.tɔ̃/ | doigtez /dwa.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). |
Noun
doigter m (plural doigters)
- (music) fingering
Further reading
- “doigter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.