fricoter
French
Etymology
fricot + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fʁi.kɔ.te/
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Verb
fricoter
- (transitive, intransitive) to cook a stew
- (transitive, intransitive) to flirt, knock about (with)
Conjugation
Conjugation of fricoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | fricoter | |||||
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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.