popoter
French
editEtymology
editFrom popote (“food, dinner, meal”) + -er (verb suffix).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editpopoter (intransitive)
- (familiar) to cook, prepare a meal
- 1996, Louis Boyé, Un jour, le grand bateau viendra : Chronique de la résistance, L’Harmattan, Paris, page 359:
- Nous errons tristement dans les rues quand nous avisons une compagnie de la Wehrmacht en train de popoter à la roulante sur la place du village.
- We're wandering miserably through the streets when we catch sight of a company of Wehrmacht in the process of making a meal at the mobile canteen in the village square.
- (archaic) to chat, chatter, converse
- (video games) to use potions
Conjugation
editConjugation of popoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | popoter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | popotant /pɔ.pɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | popoté /pɔ.pɔ.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | popote /pɔ.pɔt/ |
popotes /pɔ.pɔt/ |
popote /pɔ.pɔt/ |
popotons /pɔ.pɔ.tɔ̃/ |
popotez /pɔ.pɔ.te/ |
popotent /pɔ.pɔt/ |
imperfect | popotais /pɔ.pɔ.tɛ/ |
popotais /pɔ.pɔ.tɛ/ |
popotait /pɔ.pɔ.tɛ/ |
popotions /pɔ.pɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
popotiez /pɔ.pɔ.tje/ |
popotaient /pɔ.pɔ.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | popotai /pɔ.pɔ.te/ |
popotas /pɔ.pɔ.ta/ |
popota /pɔ.pɔ.ta/ |
popotâmes /pɔ.pɔ.tam/ |
popotâtes /pɔ.pɔ.tat/ |
popotèrent /pɔ.pɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
future | popoterai /pɔ.pɔ.tʁe/ |
popoteras /pɔ.pɔ.tʁa/ |
popotera /pɔ.pɔ.tʁa/ |
popoterons /pɔ.pɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
popoterez /pɔ.pɔ.tʁe/ |
popoteront /pɔ.pɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | popoterais /pɔ.pɔ.tʁɛ/ |
popoterais /pɔ.pɔ.tʁɛ/ |
popoterait /pɔ.pɔ.tʁɛ/ |
popoterions /pɔ.pɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
popoteriez /pɔ.pɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
popoteraient /pɔ.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 | popote /pɔ.pɔt/ |
popotes /pɔ.pɔt/ |
popote /pɔ.pɔt/ |
popotions /pɔ.pɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
popotiez /pɔ.pɔ.tje/ |
popotent /pɔ.pɔt/ |
imperfect2 | popotasse /pɔ.pɔ.tas/ |
popotasses /pɔ.pɔ.tas/ |
popotât /pɔ.pɔ.ta/ |
popotassions /pɔ.pɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
popotassiez /pɔ.pɔ.ta.sje/ |
popotassent /pɔ.pɔ.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | popote /pɔ.pɔt/ |
— | popotons /pɔ.pɔ.tɔ̃/ |
popotez /pɔ.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). |
References
edit- “popoter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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