chatouiller
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French catellier (“to excite, cause tremors”), from Medieval Latin catilāre (“tickle”, verb), from Frankish *kitilōn (“to tickle”), from Proto-Germanic *kitilōną, frequentative of *kitōną (“to tickle”), from Proto-Indo-European *geyd- (“to stick, jab, tickle”). Cognate with Old High German kizzilōn (“to tickle”), Old English citelian (“to tickle”), Old Norse kitla (“to tickle”), Middle Dutch katelen (“to tickle”), Dutch kittelen (“to tickle”). More at kittle.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
chatouiller
- to tickle
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of chatouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | chatouiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | chatouillant /ʃa.tu.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | chatouillé /ʃa.tu.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | chatouille /ʃa.tuj/ |
chatouilles /ʃa.tuj/ |
chatouille /ʃa.tuj/ |
chatouillons /ʃa.tu.jɔ̃/ |
chatouillez /ʃa.tu.je/ |
chatouillent /ʃa.tuj/ |
| imperfect | chatouillais /ʃa.tu.jɛ/ |
chatouillais /ʃa.tu.jɛ/ |
chatouillait /ʃa.tu.jɛ/ |
chatouillions /ʃa.tuj.jɔ̃/ |
chatouilliez /ʃa.tuj.je/ |
chatouillaient /ʃa.tu.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | chatouillai /ʃa.tu.je/ |
chatouillas /ʃa.tu.ja/ |
chatouilla /ʃa.tu.ja/ |
chatouillâmes /ʃa.tu.jam/ |
chatouillâtes /ʃa.tu.jat/ |
chatouillèrent /ʃa.tu.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | chatouillerai /ʃa.tuj.ʁe/ |
chatouilleras /ʃa.tuj.ʁa/ |
chatouillera /ʃa.tuj.ʁa/ |
chatouillerons /ʃa.tuj.ʁɔ̃/ |
chatouillerez /ʃa.tuj.ʁe/ |
chatouilleront /ʃa.tuj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | chatouillerais /ʃa.tuj.ʁɛ/ |
chatouillerais /ʃa.tuj.ʁɛ/ |
chatouillerait /ʃa.tuj.ʁɛ/ |
chatouillerions /ʃa.tu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chatouilleriez /ʃa.tu.jə.ʁje/ |
chatouilleraient /ʃa.tuj.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 | chatouille /ʃa.tuj/ |
chatouilles /ʃa.tuj/ |
chatouille /ʃa.tuj/ |
chatouillions /ʃa.tuj.jɔ̃/ |
chatouilliez /ʃa.tuj.je/ |
chatouillent /ʃa.tuj/ |
| imperfect2 | chatouillasse /ʃa.tu.jas/ |
chatouillasses /ʃa.tu.jas/ |
chatouillât /ʃa.tu.ja/ |
chatouillassions /ʃa.tu.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
chatouillassiez /ʃa.tu.ja.sje/ |
chatouillassent /ʃa.tu.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | chatouille /ʃa.tuj/ |
— | chatouillons /ʃa.tu.jɔ̃/ |
chatouillez /ʃa.tu.je/ |
— | |
| 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 edit
Further reading edit
- “chatouiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.