placoter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla.kɔ.te/

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Verb

placoter

1. (Quebec, informal, intransitive) to chat, chatter

   Synonyms: bavarder, papoter

Conjugation

Conjugation of placoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	placoter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	placotant /pla.kɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		placoté /pla.kɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	placote /pla.kɔt/	placotes /pla.kɔt/	placote /pla.kɔt/	placotons /pla.kɔ.tɔ̃/	placotez /pla.kɔ.te/	placotent /pla.kɔt/
	imperfect	placotais /pla.kɔ.tɛ/	placotais /pla.kɔ.tɛ/	placotait /pla.kɔ.tɛ/	placotions /pla.kɔ.tjɔ̃/	placotiez /pla.kɔ.tje/	placotaient /pla.kɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	placotai /pla.kɔ.te/	placotas /pla.kɔ.ta/	placota /pla.kɔ.ta/	placotâmes /pla.kɔ.tam/	placotâtes /pla.kɔ.tat/	placotèrent /pla.kɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	placoterai /pla.kɔ.tʁe/	placoteras /pla.kɔ.tʁa/	placotera /pla.kɔ.tʁa/	placoterons /pla.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/	placoterez /pla.kɔ.tʁe/	placoteront /pla.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	placoterais /pla.kɔ.tʁɛ/	placoterais /pla.kɔ.tʁɛ/	placoterait /pla.kɔ.tʁɛ/	placoterions /pla.kɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	placoteriez /pla.kɔ.tə.ʁje/	placoteraient /pla.kɔ.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	placote /pla.kɔt/	placotes /pla.kɔt/	placote /pla.kɔt/	placotions /pla.kɔ.tjɔ̃/	placotiez /pla.kɔ.tje/	placotent /pla.kɔt/
	imperfect2	placotasse /pla.kɔ.tas/	placotasses /pla.kɔ.tas/	placotât /pla.kɔ.ta/	placotassions /pla.kɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	placotassiez /pla.kɔ.ta.sje/	placotassent /pla.kɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	placote /pla.kɔt/	—	placotons /pla.kɔ.tɔ̃/	placotez /pla.kɔ.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

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