picoter
French
Etymology
piquer + -oter
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.kɔ.te/
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Verb
picoter
- (of a bird) to peck
- (informal) to bug, to pester, to annoy
- to itch, to prickle
- to tingle
Conjugation
Conjugation of picoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | picoter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | picotant /pi.kɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | picoté /pi.kɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | picote /pi.kɔt/ | picotes /pi.kɔt/ | picote /pi.kɔt/ | picotons /pi.kɔ.tɔ̃/ | picotez /pi.kɔ.te/ | picotent /pi.kɔt/ |
| imperfect | picotais /pi.kɔ.tɛ/ | picotais /pi.kɔ.tɛ/ | picotait /pi.kɔ.tɛ/ | picotions /pi.kɔ.tjɔ̃/ | picotiez /pi.kɔ.tje/ | picotaient /pi.kɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | picotai /pi.kɔ.te/ | picotas /pi.kɔ.ta/ | picota /pi.kɔ.ta/ | picotâmes /pi.kɔ.tam/ | picotâtes /pi.kɔ.tat/ | picotèrent /pi.kɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | picoterai /pi.kɔ.tʁe/ | picoteras /pi.kɔ.tʁa/ | picotera /pi.kɔ.tʁa/ | picoterons /pi.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | picoterez /pi.kɔ.tʁe/ | picoteront /pi.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | picoterais /pi.kɔ.tʁɛ/ | picoterais /pi.kɔ.tʁɛ/ | picoterait /pi.kɔ.tʁɛ/ | picoterions /pi.kɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | picoteriez /pi.kɔ.tə.ʁje/ | picoteraient /pi.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 | picote /pi.kɔt/ | picotes /pi.kɔt/ | picote /pi.kɔt/ | picotions /pi.kɔ.tjɔ̃/ | picotiez /pi.kɔ.tje/ | picotent /pi.kɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | picotasse /pi.kɔ.tas/ | picotasses /pi.kɔ.tas/ | picotât /pi.kɔ.ta/ | picotassions /pi.kɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ | picotassiez /pi.kɔ.ta.sje/ | picotassent /pi.kɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | picote /pi.kɔt/ | — | picotons /pi.kɔ.tɔ̃/ | picotez /pi.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). | |||||||
Related terms
- picotement
Further reading
- “picoter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.