clapoter

French

Etymology

From claper (“to clap”) +‎ -oter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kla.pɔ.te/

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Verb

clapoter

1. (of water) to swash, slosh, lap

Conjugation

Conjugation of clapoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	clapoter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	clapotant /kla.pɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		clapoté /kla.pɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	clapote /kla.pɔt/	clapotes /kla.pɔt/	clapote /kla.pɔt/	clapotons /kla.pɔ.tɔ̃/	clapotez /kla.pɔ.te/	clapotent /kla.pɔt/
	imperfect	clapotais /kla.pɔ.tɛ/	clapotais /kla.pɔ.tɛ/	clapotait /kla.pɔ.tɛ/	clapotions /kla.pɔ.tjɔ̃/	clapotiez /kla.pɔ.tje/	clapotaient /kla.pɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	clapotai /kla.pɔ.te/	clapotas /kla.pɔ.ta/	clapota /kla.pɔ.ta/	clapotâmes /kla.pɔ.tam/	clapotâtes /kla.pɔ.tat/	clapotèrent /kla.pɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	clapoterai /kla.pɔ.tʁe/	clapoteras /kla.pɔ.tʁa/	clapotera /kla.pɔ.tʁa/	clapoterons /kla.pɔ.tʁɔ̃/	clapoterez /kla.pɔ.tʁe/	clapoteront /kla.pɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	clapoterais /kla.pɔ.tʁɛ/	clapoterais /kla.pɔ.tʁɛ/	clapoterait /kla.pɔ.tʁɛ/	clapoterions /kla.pɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	clapoteriez /kla.pɔ.tə.ʁje/	clapoteraient /kla.pɔ.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	clapote /kla.pɔt/	clapotes /kla.pɔt/	clapote /kla.pɔt/	clapotions /kla.pɔ.tjɔ̃/	clapotiez /kla.pɔ.tje/	clapotent /kla.pɔt/
	imperfect2	clapotasse /kla.pɔ.tas/	clapotasses /kla.pɔ.tas/	clapotât /kla.pɔ.ta/	clapotassions /kla.pɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	clapotassiez /kla.pɔ.ta.sje/	clapotassent /kla.pɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	clapote /kla.pɔt/	—	clapotons /kla.pɔ.tɔ̃/	clapotez /kla.pɔ.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).

Related terms

• clapotis
• clapotement

Further reading

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