tapoter

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

tapoter

1. to tap (strike lightly and repeatedly)

Conjugation

Conjugation of tapoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tapoter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tapotant /ta.pɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tapoté /ta.pɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tapote /ta.pɔt/	tapotes /ta.pɔt/	tapote /ta.pɔt/	tapotons /ta.pɔ.tɔ̃/	tapotez /ta.pɔ.te/	tapotent /ta.pɔt/
	imperfect	tapotais /ta.pɔ.tɛ/	tapotais /ta.pɔ.tɛ/	tapotait /ta.pɔ.tɛ/	tapotions /ta.pɔ.tjɔ̃/	tapotiez /ta.pɔ.tje/	tapotaient /ta.pɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	tapotai /ta.pɔ.te/	tapotas /ta.pɔ.ta/	tapota /ta.pɔ.ta/	tapotâmes /ta.pɔ.tam/	tapotâtes /ta.pɔ.tat/	tapotèrent /ta.pɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	tapoterai /ta.pɔ.tʁe/	tapoteras /ta.pɔ.tʁa/	tapotera /ta.pɔ.tʁa/	tapoterons /ta.pɔ.tʁɔ̃/	tapoterez /ta.pɔ.tʁe/	tapoteront /ta.pɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tapoterais /ta.pɔ.tʁɛ/	tapoterais /ta.pɔ.tʁɛ/	tapoterait /ta.pɔ.tʁɛ/	tapoterions /ta.pɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	tapoteriez /ta.pɔ.tə.ʁje/	tapoteraient /ta.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	tapote /ta.pɔt/	tapotes /ta.pɔt/	tapote /ta.pɔt/	tapotions /ta.pɔ.tjɔ̃/	tapotiez /ta.pɔ.tje/	tapotent /ta.pɔt/
	imperfect2	tapotasse /ta.pɔ.tas/	tapotasses /ta.pɔ.tas/	tapotât /ta.pɔ.ta/	tapotassions /ta.pɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	tapotassiez /ta.pɔ.ta.sje/	tapotassent /ta.pɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tapote /ta.pɔt/	—	tapotons /ta.pɔ.tɔ̃/	tapotez /ta.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: 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).

Further reading

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