fayoter
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
fayoter
- (France, informal) to brownnose
- 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 86:
- Quelques stagiaires éclatent de rire en te montrant du doigt, ils croient que tu plaisantes, en profitent pour fayoter en s’sclaffant à tes facéties pathétiques.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of fayoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fayoter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fayotant /fa.jɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fayoté /fa.jɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | fayote /fa.jɔt/ |
fayotes /fa.jɔt/ |
fayote /fa.jɔt/ |
fayotons /fa.jɔ.tɔ̃/ |
fayotez /fa.jɔ.te/ |
fayotent /fa.jɔt/ |
| imperfect | fayotais /fa.jɔ.tɛ/ |
fayotais /fa.jɔ.tɛ/ |
fayotait /fa.jɔ.tɛ/ |
fayotions /fa.jɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
fayotiez /fa.jɔ.tje/ |
fayotaient /fa.jɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fayotai /fa.jɔ.te/ |
fayotas /fa.jɔ.ta/ |
fayota /fa.jɔ.ta/ |
fayotâmes /fa.jɔ.tam/ |
fayotâtes /fa.jɔ.tat/ |
fayotèrent /fa.jɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | fayoterai /fa.jɔ.tʁe/ |
fayoteras /fa.jɔ.tʁa/ |
fayotera /fa.jɔ.tʁa/ |
fayoterons /fa.jɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
fayoterez /fa.jɔ.tʁe/ |
fayoteront /fa.jɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fayoterais /fa.jɔ.tʁɛ/ |
fayoterais /fa.jɔ.tʁɛ/ |
fayoterait /fa.jɔ.tʁɛ/ |
fayoterions /fa.jɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fayoteriez /fa.jɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
fayoteraient /fa.jɔ.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 | fayote /fa.jɔt/ |
fayotes /fa.jɔt/ |
fayote /fa.jɔt/ |
fayotions /fa.jɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
fayotiez /fa.jɔ.tje/ |
fayotent /fa.jɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | fayotasse /fa.jɔ.tas/ |
fayotasses /fa.jɔ.tas/ |
fayotât /fa.jɔ.ta/ |
fayotassions /fa.jɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
fayotassiez /fa.jɔ.ta.sje/ |
fayotassent /fa.jɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fayote /fa.jɔt/ |
— | fayotons /fa.jɔ.tɔ̃/ |
fayotez /fa.jɔ.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). | |||||||
Synonyms edit
- (Quebec, informal) téter
Further reading edit
- “fayoter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.