baratiner
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
baratiner
- (transitive) to chat up, sweet-talk (engage in small talk in order to seduce or convince)
- 1995, Georges Piroué, Le réduit national:
- Il baratine une des serveuses. Comme elle parle allemand, lui français, les mots lui sont de peu de secours et c’est sans doute la raison pour laquelle il se tortille.
- He chats up one of the waitresses. As she speaks German, he in French, the words are of little help to him and that is probably why he struggles.
- 1999, Anna Gavalda, “Ambre”, in Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part, →ISBN:
- Au début j’ai bien essayé de baratiner Ambre et puis quand j’ai compris que j’étais trop parti pour la baiser convenablement, j’ai laissé tomber.
- Initially I tried my best to sweet-talk Ambre but then realized I got too wrecked to screw her properly, and let go.
- (intransitive) to bullshit
Conjugation
Conjugation of baratiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | baratiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | baratinant /ba.ʁa.ti.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | baratiné /ba.ʁa.ti.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | baratine /ba.ʁa.tin/ |
baratines /ba.ʁa.tin/ |
baratine /ba.ʁa.tin/ |
baratinons /ba.ʁa.ti.nɔ̃/ |
baratinez /ba.ʁa.ti.ne/ |
baratinent /ba.ʁa.tin/ |
| imperfect | baratinais /ba.ʁa.ti.nɛ/ |
baratinais /ba.ʁa.ti.nɛ/ |
baratinait /ba.ʁa.ti.nɛ/ |
baratinions /ba.ʁa.ti.njɔ̃/ |
baratiniez /ba.ʁa.ti.nje/ |
baratinaient /ba.ʁa.ti.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | baratinai /ba.ʁa.ti.ne/ |
baratinas /ba.ʁa.ti.na/ |
baratina /ba.ʁa.ti.na/ |
baratinâmes /ba.ʁa.ti.nam/ |
baratinâtes /ba.ʁa.ti.nat/ |
baratinèrent /ba.ʁa.ti.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | baratinerai /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁe/ |
baratineras /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁa/ |
baratinera /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁa/ |
baratinerons /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɔ̃/ |
baratinerez /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁe/ |
baratineront /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | baratinerais /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɛ/ |
baratinerais /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɛ/ |
baratinerait /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɛ/ |
baratinerions /ba.ʁa.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
baratineriez /ba.ʁa.ti.nə.ʁje/ |
baratineraient /ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | baratine /ba.ʁa.tin/ |
baratines /ba.ʁa.tin/ |
baratine /ba.ʁa.tin/ |
baratinions /ba.ʁa.ti.njɔ̃/ |
baratiniez /ba.ʁa.ti.nje/ |
baratinent /ba.ʁa.tin/ |
| imperfect2 | baratinasse /ba.ʁa.ti.nas/ |
baratinasses /ba.ʁa.ti.nas/ |
baratinât /ba.ʁa.ti.na/ |
baratinassions /ba.ʁa.ti.na.sjɔ̃/ |
baratinassiez /ba.ʁa.ti.na.sje/ |
baratinassent /ba.ʁa.ti.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | baratine /ba.ʁa.tin/ |
— | baratinons /ba.ʁa.ti.nɔ̃/ |
baratinez /ba.ʁa.ti.ne/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “baratiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.