baratiner
French
Etymology
Verb
baratiner
- (transitive) to chat up, sweet-talk (engage in small talk in order to seduce or convince)
- 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.(Georges Piroué, Le réduit national, 1995)
- 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.
- (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.