papoter
French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French papier (“to murmur”) (from the onomatopoeic root "papp-", occurring in Latin pappare (“to eat”), having to do with movement of the lips) + -oter.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
papoter (intransitive)
- (colloquial) to chat, chatter [from 1737]
- Synonyms: bavarder, tailler le bout de gras
- des heures passées à papoter ― hours spent chattering
- (obsolete) to nibble [in 1611]
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of papoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | papoter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | papotant /pa.pɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | papoté /pa.pɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | papote /pa.pɔt/ |
papotes /pa.pɔt/ |
papote /pa.pɔt/ |
papotons /pa.pɔ.tɔ̃/ |
papotez /pa.pɔ.te/ |
papotent /pa.pɔt/ |
| imperfect | papotais /pa.pɔ.tɛ/ |
papotais /pa.pɔ.tɛ/ |
papotait /pa.pɔ.tɛ/ |
papotions /pa.pɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
papotiez /pa.pɔ.tje/ |
papotaient /pa.pɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | papotai /pa.pɔ.te/ |
papotas /pa.pɔ.ta/ |
papota /pa.pɔ.ta/ |
papotâmes /pa.pɔ.tam/ |
papotâtes /pa.pɔ.tat/ |
papotèrent /pa.pɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | papoterai /pa.pɔ.tʁe/ |
papoteras /pa.pɔ.tʁa/ |
papotera /pa.pɔ.tʁa/ |
papoterons /pa.pɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
papoterez /pa.pɔ.tʁe/ |
papoteront /pa.pɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | papoterais /pa.pɔ.tʁɛ/ |
papoterais /pa.pɔ.tʁɛ/ |
papoterait /pa.pɔ.tʁɛ/ |
papoterions /pa.pɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
papoteriez /pa.pɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
papoteraient /pa.pɔ.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 | papote /pa.pɔt/ |
papotes /pa.pɔt/ |
papote /pa.pɔt/ |
papotions /pa.pɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
papotiez /pa.pɔ.tje/ |
papotent /pa.pɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | papotasse /pa.pɔ.tas/ |
papotasses /pa.pɔ.tas/ |
papotât /pa.pɔ.ta/ |
papotassions /pa.pɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
papotassiez /pa.pɔ.ta.sje/ |
papotassent /pa.pɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | papote /pa.pɔt/ |
— | papotons /pa.pɔ.tɔ̃/ |
papotez /pa.pɔ.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 edit
Further reading edit
- “papoter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.