radoter

French

Etymology

From Old French redoter, from a Proto-West Germanic source..

Pronunciation

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Verb

radoter

1. (intransitive) drivel (to talk nonsense)

Conjugation

Conjugation of radoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	radoter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	radotant /ʁa.dɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		radoté /ʁa.dɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	radote /ʁa.dɔt/	radotes /ʁa.dɔt/	radote /ʁa.dɔt/	radotons /ʁa.dɔ.tɔ̃/	radotez /ʁa.dɔ.te/	radotent /ʁa.dɔt/
	imperfect	radotais /ʁa.dɔ.tɛ/	radotais /ʁa.dɔ.tɛ/	radotait /ʁa.dɔ.tɛ/	radotions /ʁa.dɔ.tjɔ̃/	radotiez /ʁa.dɔ.tje/	radotaient /ʁa.dɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	radotai /ʁa.dɔ.te/	radotas /ʁa.dɔ.ta/	radota /ʁa.dɔ.ta/	radotâmes /ʁa.dɔ.tam/	radotâtes /ʁa.dɔ.tat/	radotèrent /ʁa.dɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	radoterai /ʁa.dɔ.tʁe/	radoteras /ʁa.dɔ.tʁa/	radotera /ʁa.dɔ.tʁa/	radoterons /ʁa.dɔ.tʁɔ̃/	radoterez /ʁa.dɔ.tʁe/	radoteront /ʁa.dɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	radoterais /ʁa.dɔ.tʁɛ/	radoterais /ʁa.dɔ.tʁɛ/	radoterait /ʁa.dɔ.tʁɛ/	radoterions /ʁa.dɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	radoteriez /ʁa.dɔ.tə.ʁje/	radoteraient /ʁa.dɔ.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	radote /ʁa.dɔt/	radotes /ʁa.dɔt/	radote /ʁa.dɔt/	radotions /ʁa.dɔ.tjɔ̃/	radotiez /ʁa.dɔ.tje/	radotent /ʁa.dɔt/
	imperfect2	radotasse /ʁa.dɔ.tas/	radotasses /ʁa.dɔ.tas/	radotât /ʁa.dɔ.ta/	radotassions /ʁa.dɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	radotassiez /ʁa.dɔ.ta.sje/	radotassent /ʁa.dɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	radote /ʁa.dɔt/	—	radotons /ʁa.dɔ.tɔ̃/	radotez /ʁa.dɔ.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).

Derived terms

• radotage
• radoteur

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: radote

Further reading

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