peloter
French
Etymology
From pelote + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pə.lɔ.te/
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Verb
peloter
- (archaic) to wind, roll etc. into a ball
- (colloquial) to touch up, feel up (sexually)
- (colloquial, reflexive, se peloter) to make out
Conjugation
Conjugation of peloter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | peloter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pelotant /pə.lɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | peloté /pə.lɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | pelote /pə.lɔt/ | pelotes /pə.lɔt/ | pelote /pə.lɔt/ | pelotons /pə.lɔ.tɔ̃/ | pelotez /pə.lɔ.te/ | pelotent /pə.lɔt/ |
| imperfect | pelotais /pə.lɔ.tɛ/ | pelotais /pə.lɔ.tɛ/ | pelotait /pə.lɔ.tɛ/ | pelotions /pə.lɔ.tjɔ̃/ | pelotiez /pə.lɔ.tje/ | pelotaient /pə.lɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pelotai /pə.lɔ.te/ | pelotas /pə.lɔ.ta/ | pelota /pə.lɔ.ta/ | pelotâmes /pə.lɔ.tam/ | pelotâtes /pə.lɔ.tat/ | pelotèrent /pə.lɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | peloterai /pə.lɔ.tʁe/ | peloteras /pə.lɔ.tʁa/ | pelotera /pə.lɔ.tʁa/ | peloterons /pə.lɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | peloterez /pə.lɔ.tʁe/ | peloteront /pə.lɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | peloterais /pə.lɔ.tʁɛ/ | peloterais /pə.lɔ.tʁɛ/ | peloterait /pə.lɔ.tʁɛ/ | peloterions /pə.lɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | peloteriez /pə.lɔ.tə.ʁje/ | peloteraient /pə.lɔ.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 | pelote /pə.lɔt/ | pelotes /pə.lɔt/ | pelote /pə.lɔt/ | pelotions /pə.lɔ.tjɔ̃/ | pelotiez /pə.lɔ.tje/ | pelotent /pə.lɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | pelotasse /pə.lɔ.tas/ | pelotasses /pə.lɔ.tas/ | pelotât /pə.lɔ.ta/ | pelotassions /pə.lɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ | pelotassiez /pə.lɔ.ta.sje/ | pelotassent /pə.lɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pelote /pə.lɔt/ | — | pelotons /pə.lɔ.tɔ̃/ | pelotez /pə.lɔ.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
- “peloter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- pétrole