cliqueter

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French cliqueter, from Old French cliketer, equivalent to cliquer (“to click, clink”) +‎ -eter (frequentative suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klik.te/

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Verb

cliqueter

1. (intransitive) to jingle, rattle, clink

Conjugation

With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.

Conjugation of cliqueter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cliqueter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cliquetant /klik.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cliqueté /klik.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cliquette or cliquète /kli.kɛt/	cliquettes or cliquètes /kli.kɛt/	cliquette or cliquète /kli.kɛt/	cliquetons /klik.tɔ̃/	cliquetez /klik.te/	cliquettent or cliquètent /kli.kɛt/
	imperfect	cliquetais /klik.tɛ/	cliquetais /klik.tɛ/	cliquetait /klik.tɛ/	cliquetions /kli.kə.tjɔ̃/	cliquetiez /kli.kə.tje/	cliquetaient /klik.tɛ/
	past historic2	cliquetai /klik.te/	cliquetas /klik.ta/	cliqueta /klik.ta/	cliquetâmes /klik.tam/	cliquetâtes /klik.tat/	cliquetèrent /klik.tɛʁ/
	future	cliquetterai or cliquèterai /kli.kɛ.tʁe/ or /kli.ke.tʁe/	cliquetteras or cliquèteras /kli.kɛ.tʁa/ or /kli.ke.tʁa/	cliquettera or cliquètera /kli.kɛ.tʁa/ or /kli.ke.tʁa/	cliquetterons or cliquèterons /kli.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kli.ke.tʁɔ̃/	cliquetterez or cliquèterez /kli.kɛ.tʁe/ or /kli.ke.tʁe/	cliquetteront or cliquèteront /kli.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /kli.ke.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cliquetterais or cliquèterais /kli.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kli.ke.tʁɛ/	cliquetterais or cliquèterais /kli.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kli.ke.tʁɛ/	cliquetterait or cliquèterait /kli.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kli.ke.tʁɛ/	cliquetterions or cliquèterions /kli.kɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kli.ke.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	cliquetteriez or cliquèteriez /kli.kɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /kli.ke.tə.ʁje/	cliquetteraient or cliquèteraient /kli.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /kli.ke.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	cliquette or cliquète /kli.kɛt/	cliquettes or cliquètes /kli.kɛt/	cliquette or cliquète /kli.kɛt/	cliquetions /kli.kə.tjɔ̃/	cliquetiez /kli.kə.tje/	cliquettent or cliquètent /kli.kɛt/
	imperfect2	cliquetasse /klik.tas/	cliquetasses /klik.tas/	cliquetât /klik.ta/	cliquetassions /klik.ta.sjɔ̃/	cliquetassiez /klik.ta.sje/	cliquetassent /klik.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cliquette or cliquète /kli.kɛt/	—	cliquetons /klik.tɔ̃/	cliquetez /klik.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

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