frotter
French
Etymology
Probably from Latin frictāre , present active infinitive of frictō, frequentative of fricō through its past participle frictus (“rubbed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fʁɔ.te/
Audio (file)
Verb
frotter
- to rub, chafe
- to scrub, scour
- to scrape
- to stone
- (figuratively, informal, takes a reflexive pronoun, se frotter) to rub (someone) in the wrong way, to get on (someone)'s bad side
- Ne te frotte pas à elle! Elle a beaucoup d'ennuis.
- Don't get on her bad side! She has a lot of issues.
Conjugation
Conjugation of frotter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | frotter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | frottant /fʁɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | frotté /fʁɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | frotte /fʁɔt/ | frottes /fʁɔt/ | frotte /fʁɔt/ | frottons /fʁɔ.tɔ̃/ | frottez /fʁɔ.te/ | frottent /fʁɔt/ |
| imperfect | frottais /fʁɔ.tɛ/ | frottais /fʁɔ.tɛ/ | frottait /fʁɔ.tɛ/ | frottions /fʁɔ.tjɔ̃/ | frottiez /fʁɔ.tje/ | frottaient /fʁɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | frottai /fʁɔ.te/ | frottas /fʁɔ.ta/ | frotta /fʁɔ.ta/ | frottâmes /fʁɔ.tam/ | frottâtes /fʁɔ.tat/ | frottèrent /fʁɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | frotterai /fʁɔ.tʁe/ | frotteras /fʁɔ.tʁa/ | frottera /fʁɔ.tʁa/ | frotterons /fʁɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | frotterez /fʁɔ.tʁe/ | frotteront /fʁɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | frotterais /fʁɔ.tʁɛ/ | frotterais /fʁɔ.tʁɛ/ | frotterait /fʁɔ.tʁɛ/ | frotterions /fʁɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | frotteriez /fʁɔ.tə.ʁje/ | frotteraient /fʁɔ.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 | frotte /fʁɔt/ | frottes /fʁɔt/ | frotte /fʁɔt/ | frottions /fʁɔ.tjɔ̃/ | frottiez /fʁɔ.tje/ | frottent /fʁɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | frottasse /fʁɔ.tas/ | frottasses /fʁɔ.tas/ | frottât /fʁɔ.ta/ | frottassions /fʁɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ | frottassiez /fʁɔ.ta.sje/ | frottassent /fʁɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | frotte /fʁɔt/ | — | frottons /fʁɔ.tɔ̃/ | frottez /fʁɔ.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
- se frotter les mains
Descendants
- Turkish: fortçu
Further reading
- “frotter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Alternative forms
- frottaïr (Guernsey)
Etymology
Probably from Latin frictāre, present active infinitive of frictō, frequentative of fricō through its past participle frictus (“rubbed”).
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Verb
frotter
- (Jersey) to rub