papilloter
French
Etymology
papillon + -oter
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.pi.jɔ.te/
Audio (file) - Homophones: papillotai, papilloté, papillotée, papillotées, papillotés, papillotez
Verb
papilloter
- (intransitive) to blink
- (intransitive) to flutter
- (intransitive) to flicker
Conjugation
Conjugation of papilloter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | papilloter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | papillotant /pa.pi.jɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | papilloté /pa.pi.jɔ.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | papillote /pa.pi.jɔt/ | papillotes /pa.pi.jɔt/ | papillote /pa.pi.jɔt/ | papillotons /pa.pi.jɔ.tɔ̃/ | papillotez /pa.pi.jɔ.te/ | papillotent /pa.pi.jɔt/ |
imperfect | papillotais /pa.pi.jɔ.tɛ/ | papillotais /pa.pi.jɔ.tɛ/ | papillotait /pa.pi.jɔ.tɛ/ | papillotions /pa.pi.jɔ.tjɔ̃/ | papillotiez /pa.pi.jɔ.tje/ | papillotaient /pa.pi.jɔ.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | papillotai /pa.pi.jɔ.te/ | papillotas /pa.pi.jɔ.ta/ | papillota /pa.pi.jɔ.ta/ | papillotâmes /pa.pi.jɔ.tam/ | papillotâtes /pa.pi.jɔ.tat/ | papillotèrent /pa.pi.jɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
future | papilloterai /pa.pi.jɔ.tʁe/ | papilloteras /pa.pi.jɔ.tʁa/ | papillotera /pa.pi.jɔ.tʁa/ | papilloterons /pa.pi.jɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | papilloterez /pa.pi.jɔ.tʁe/ | papilloteront /pa.pi.jɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | papilloterais /pa.pi.jɔ.tʁɛ/ | papilloterais /pa.pi.jɔ.tʁɛ/ | papilloterait /pa.pi.jɔ.tʁɛ/ | papilloterions /pa.pi.jɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | papilloteriez /pa.pi.jɔ.tə.ʁje/ | papilloteraient /pa.pi.jɔ.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 | papillote /pa.pi.jɔt/ | papillotes /pa.pi.jɔt/ | papillote /pa.pi.jɔt/ | papillotions /pa.pi.jɔ.tjɔ̃/ | papillotiez /pa.pi.jɔ.tje/ | papillotent /pa.pi.jɔt/ |
imperfect2 | papillotasse /pa.pi.jɔ.tas/ | papillotasses /pa.pi.jɔ.tas/ | papillotât /pa.pi.jɔ.ta/ | papillotassions /pa.pi.jɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ | papillotassiez /pa.pi.jɔ.ta.sje/ | papillotassent /pa.pi.jɔ.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | papillote /pa.pi.jɔt/ | — | papillotons /pa.pi.jɔ.tɔ̃/ | papillotez /pa.pi.jɔ.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
- “papilloter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.