baratiner

French

Etymology

From baratin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʁa.ti.ne/

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Verb

baratiner

1. (transitive) to chat up, sweet-talk (engage in small talk in order to seduce or convince)
   • 1995, Georges Piroué, Le réduit national:

     Il baratine une des serveuses. Comme elle parle allemand, lui français, les mots lui sont de peu de secours et c’est sans doute la raison pour laquelle il se tortille.

     He chats up one of the waitresses. As she speaks German, he in French, the words are of little help to him and that is probably why he struggles.

   • 1999, Anna Gavalda, “Ambre”, in Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part, →ISBN:

     Au début j’ai bien essayé de baratiner Ambre et puis quand j’ai compris que j’étais trop parti pour la baiser convenablement, j’ai laissé tomber.

     Initially I tried my best to sweet-talk Ambre but then realized I got too wrecked to screw her properly, and let go.

2. (intransitive) to bullshit

Conjugation

Conjugation of baratiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	baratiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	baratinant /ba.ʁa.ti.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		baratiné /ba.ʁa.ti.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	baratine /ba.ʁa.tin/	baratines /ba.ʁa.tin/	baratine /ba.ʁa.tin/	baratinons /ba.ʁa.ti.nɔ̃/	baratinez /ba.ʁa.ti.ne/	baratinent /ba.ʁa.tin/
	imperfect	baratinais /ba.ʁa.ti.nɛ/	baratinais /ba.ʁa.ti.nɛ/	baratinait /ba.ʁa.ti.nɛ/	baratinions /ba.ʁa.ti.njɔ̃/	baratiniez /ba.ʁa.ti.nje/	baratinaient /ba.ʁa.ti.nɛ/
	past historic2	baratinai /ba.ʁa.ti.ne/	baratinas /ba.ʁa.ti.na/	baratina /ba.ʁa.ti.na/	baratinâmes /ba.ʁa.ti.nam/	baratinâtes /ba.ʁa.ti.nat/	baratinèrent /ba.ʁa.ti.nɛʁ/
	future	baratinerai /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁe/	baratineras /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁa/	baratinera /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁa/	baratinerons /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɔ̃/	baratinerez /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁe/	baratineront /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	baratinerais /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɛ/	baratinerais /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɛ/	baratinerait /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɛ/	baratinerions /ba.ʁa.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	baratineriez /ba.ʁa.ti.nə.ʁje/	baratineraient /ba.ʁa.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	baratine /ba.ʁa.tin/	baratines /ba.ʁa.tin/	baratine /ba.ʁa.tin/	baratinions /ba.ʁa.ti.njɔ̃/	baratiniez /ba.ʁa.ti.nje/	baratinent /ba.ʁa.tin/
	imperfect2	baratinasse /ba.ʁa.ti.nas/	baratinasses /ba.ʁa.ti.nas/	baratinât /ba.ʁa.ti.na/	baratinassions /ba.ʁa.ti.na.sjɔ̃/	baratinassiez /ba.ʁa.ti.na.sje/	baratinassent /ba.ʁa.ti.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	baratine /ba.ʁa.tin/	—	baratinons /ba.ʁa.ti.nɔ̃/	baratinez /ba.ʁa.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• baratineur

Further reading

• “baratiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• barraient