bécoter
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From bécot (“peck”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
bécoter
- (informal) to kiss; besmooch
- Synonym: embrasser
- 1953, “Les amoureux des bancs publics”, performed by Georges Brassens:
- Les amoureux qui s’bécotent sur les bancs publics, / Bancs publics, bancs publics, / En s’disant des "Je t’aime’" pathétiques, / Ont des p’tits gueules bien sympathiques!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of bécoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | bécoter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | bécotant /be.kɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | bécoté /be.kɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | bécote /be.kɔt/ |
bécotes /be.kɔt/ |
bécote /be.kɔt/ |
bécotons /be.kɔ.tɔ̃/ |
bécotez /be.kɔ.te/ |
bécotent /be.kɔt/ |
| imperfect | bécotais /be.kɔ.tɛ/ |
bécotais /be.kɔ.tɛ/ |
bécotait /be.kɔ.tɛ/ |
bécotions /be.kɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
bécotiez /be.kɔ.tje/ |
bécotaient /be.kɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | bécotai /be.kɔ.te/ |
bécotas /be.kɔ.ta/ |
bécota /be.kɔ.ta/ |
bécotâmes /be.kɔ.tam/ |
bécotâtes /be.kɔ.tat/ |
bécotèrent /be.kɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | bécoterai /be.kɔ.tʁe/ |
bécoteras /be.kɔ.tʁa/ |
bécotera /be.kɔ.tʁa/ |
bécoterons /be.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
bécoterez /be.kɔ.tʁe/ |
bécoteront /be.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | bécoterais /be.kɔ.tʁɛ/ |
bécoterais /be.kɔ.tʁɛ/ |
bécoterait /be.kɔ.tʁɛ/ |
bécoterions /be.kɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
bécoteriez /be.kɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
bécoteraient /be.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 | bécote /be.kɔt/ |
bécotes /be.kɔt/ |
bécote /be.kɔt/ |
bécotions /be.kɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
bécotiez /be.kɔ.tje/ |
bécotent /be.kɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | bécotasse /be.kɔ.tas/ |
bécotasses /be.kɔ.tas/ |
bécotât /be.kɔ.ta/ |
bécotassions /be.kɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
bécotassiez /be.kɔ.ta.sje/ |
bécotassent /be.kɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | bécote /be.kɔt/ |
— | bécotons /be.kɔ.tɔ̃/ |
bécotez /be.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading[edit]
- “bécoter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.