caqueter

French

Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.k(ə).te/

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Verb

caqueter

1. (transitive, intransitive) to cackle
2. (transitive, intransitive) to prattle

Conjugation

With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.

Conjugation of caqueter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	caqueter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	caquetant /kak.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		caqueté /kak.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	caquette or caquète /ka.kɛt/	caquettes or caquètes /ka.kɛt/	caquette or caquète /ka.kɛt/	caquetons /kak.tɔ̃/	caquetez /kak.te/	caquettent or caquètent /ka.kɛt/
	imperfect	caquetais /kak.tɛ/	caquetais /kak.tɛ/	caquetait /kak.tɛ/	caquetions /ka.kə.tjɔ̃/	caquetiez /ka.kə.tje/	caquetaient /kak.tɛ/
	past historic2	caquetai /kak.te/	caquetas /kak.ta/	caqueta /kak.ta/	caquetâmes /kak.tam/	caquetâtes /kak.tat/	caquetèrent /kak.tɛʁ/
	future	caquetterai or caquèterai /ka.kɛ.tʁe/ or /ka.ke.tʁe/	caquetteras or caquèteras /ka.kɛ.tʁa/ or /ka.ke.tʁa/	caquettera or caquètera /ka.kɛ.tʁa/ or /ka.ke.tʁa/	caquetterons or caquèterons /ka.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ka.ke.tʁɔ̃/	caquetterez or caquèterez /ka.kɛ.tʁe/ or /ka.ke.tʁe/	caquetteront or caquèteront /ka.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ka.ke.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	caquetterais or caquèterais /ka.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.ke.tʁɛ/	caquetterais or caquèterais /ka.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.ke.tʁɛ/	caquetterait or caquèterait /ka.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.ke.tʁɛ/	caquetterions or caquèterions /ka.kɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ka.ke.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	caquetteriez or caquèteriez /ka.kɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ka.ke.tə.ʁje/	caquetteraient or caquèteraient /ka.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.ke.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	caquette or caquète /ka.kɛt/	caquettes or caquètes /ka.kɛt/	caquette or caquète /ka.kɛt/	caquetions /ka.kə.tjɔ̃/	caquetiez /ka.kə.tje/	caquettent or caquètent /ka.kɛt/
	imperfect2	caquetasse /kak.tas/	caquetasses /kak.tas/	caquetât /kak.ta/	caquetassions /kak.ta.sjɔ̃/	caquetassiez /kak.ta.sje/	caquetassent /kak.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	caquette or caquète /ka.kɛt/	—	caquetons /kak.tɔ̃/	caquetez /kak.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: 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).

Related terms

• caquet
• caqueteur

Further reading

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

Middle French

Verb

caqueter

1. to cluck
2. to croak
3. to speak loudly, cackle
4. to speak ill of someobody, prattle

Related terms

• caqueterie
• caquetière
• caquetoire
• caquetement
• caquet
• cacoigne
• caquenard

References

• caqueter on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)