ratatiner
French
Etymology
Of onomatopoeic origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁa.ta.ti.ne/
Audio (file)
Verb
ratatiner
- (transitive, intransitive) to shrink, shrivel
- (takes a reflexive pronoun) to shrivel (up)
- (informal) to badly damage, wreck, to destroy
- (slang) to kill
- (slang) to soundly defeat; to cream
Conjugation
Conjugation of ratatiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ratatiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | ratatinant /ʁa.ta.ti.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ratatiné /ʁa.ta.ti.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | ratatine /ʁa.ta.tin/ | ratatines /ʁa.ta.tin/ | ratatine /ʁa.ta.tin/ | ratatinons /ʁa.ta.ti.nɔ̃/ | ratatinez /ʁa.ta.ti.ne/ | ratatinent /ʁa.ta.tin/ |
| imperfect | ratatinais /ʁa.ta.ti.nɛ/ | ratatinais /ʁa.ta.ti.nɛ/ | ratatinait /ʁa.ta.ti.nɛ/ | ratatinions /ʁa.ta.ti.njɔ̃/ | ratatiniez /ʁa.ta.ti.nje/ | ratatinaient /ʁa.ta.ti.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ratatinai /ʁa.ta.ti.ne/ | ratatinas /ʁa.ta.ti.na/ | ratatina /ʁa.ta.ti.na/ | ratatinâmes /ʁa.ta.ti.nam/ | ratatinâtes /ʁa.ta.ti.nat/ | ratatinèrent /ʁa.ta.ti.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | ratatinerai /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁe/ | ratatineras /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁa/ | ratatinera /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁa/ | ratatinerons /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁɔ̃/ | ratatinerez /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁe/ | ratatineront /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ratatinerais /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁɛ/ | ratatinerais /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁɛ/ | ratatinerait /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁɛ/ | ratatinerions /ʁa.ta.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | ratatineriez /ʁa.ta.ti.nə.ʁje/ | ratatineraient /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | ratatine /ʁa.ta.tin/ | ratatines /ʁa.ta.tin/ | ratatine /ʁa.ta.tin/ | ratatinions /ʁa.ta.ti.njɔ̃/ | ratatiniez /ʁa.ta.ti.nje/ | ratatinent /ʁa.ta.tin/ |
| imperfect2 | ratatinasse /ʁa.ta.ti.nas/ | ratatinasses /ʁa.ta.ti.nas/ | ratatinât /ʁa.ta.ti.na/ | ratatinassions /ʁa.ta.ti.na.sjɔ̃/ | ratatinassiez /ʁa.ta.ti.na.sje/ | ratatinassent /ʁa.ta.ti.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ratatine /ʁa.ta.tin/ | — | ratatinons /ʁa.ta.ti.nɔ̃/ | ratatinez /ʁa.ta.ti.ne/ | — | |
| 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
- ratatinage
- ratatinement
Further reading
- “ratatiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- entartrai