flirter
English
Etymology
From flirt + -er. Compare Old English fleardere (“one who acts wantonly or with folly”).
Noun
flirter (plural flirters)
- One who flirts.
- 1988, Glamour (volume 86, issues 7-9, page 26)
- I just ended a relationship with a compulsive flirter, after realizing that no one deserved to be treated as I was.
- 1988, Glamour (volume 86, issues 7-9, page 26)
Anagrams
- trifler
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English flirt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flœʁ.te/
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Verb
flirter
- (intransitive) to flirt
- Hyponym: see courir les filles
Conjugation
Conjugation of flirter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | flirter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | flirtant /flœʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | flirté /flœʁ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | flirte /flœʁt/ | flirtes /flœʁt/ | flirte /flœʁt/ | flirtons /flœʁ.tɔ̃/ | flirtez /flœʁ.te/ | flirtent /flœʁt/ |
| imperfect | flirtais /flœʁ.tɛ/ | flirtais /flœʁ.tɛ/ | flirtait /flœʁ.tɛ/ | flirtions /flœʁ.tjɔ̃/ | flirtiez /flœʁ.tje/ | flirtaient /flœʁ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | flirtai /flœʁ.te/ | flirtas /flœʁ.ta/ | flirta /flœʁ.ta/ | flirtâmes /flœʁ.tam/ | flirtâtes /flœʁ.tat/ | flirtèrent /flœʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | flirterai /flœʁ.tə.ʁe/ | flirteras /flœʁ.tə.ʁa/ | flirtera /flœʁ.tə.ʁa/ | flirterons /flœʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | flirterez /flœʁ.tə.ʁe/ | flirteront /flœʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | flirterais /flœʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ | flirterais /flœʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ | flirterait /flœʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ | flirterions /flœʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | flirteriez /flœʁ.tə.ʁje/ | flirteraient /flœʁ.tə.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 | flirte /flœʁt/ | flirtes /flœʁt/ | flirte /flœʁt/ | flirtions /flœʁ.tjɔ̃/ | flirtiez /flœʁ.tje/ | flirtent /flœʁt/ |
| imperfect2 | flirtasse /flœʁ.tas/ | flirtasses /flœʁ.tas/ | flirtât /flœʁ.ta/ | flirtassions /flœʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ | flirtassiez /flœʁ.ta.sje/ | flirtassent /flœʁ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | flirte /flœʁt/ | — | flirtons /flœʁ.tɔ̃/ | flirtez /flœʁ.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). | |||||||
Related terms
- flirt
- flirteur
See also
- faire la cour
- fréquenter
Further reading
- “flirter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- filtrer, flétrir