courtiser

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian corteggiare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuʁ.ti.ze/

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Verb

courtiser

1. to court; to woo (to endeavor to gain someone's affection)

   Synonym: (informal) draguer

Conjugation

Conjugation of courtiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	courtiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	courtisant /kuʁ.ti.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		courtisé /kuʁ.ti.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	courtise /kuʁ.tiz/	courtises /kuʁ.tiz/	courtise /kuʁ.tiz/	courtisons /kuʁ.ti.zɔ̃/	courtisez /kuʁ.ti.ze/	courtisent /kuʁ.tiz/
	imperfect	courtisais /kuʁ.ti.zɛ/	courtisais /kuʁ.ti.zɛ/	courtisait /kuʁ.ti.zɛ/	courtisions /kuʁ.ti.zjɔ̃/	courtisiez /kuʁ.ti.zje/	courtisaient /kuʁ.ti.zɛ/
	past historic2	courtisai /kuʁ.ti.ze/	courtisas /kuʁ.ti.za/	courtisa /kuʁ.ti.za/	courtisâmes /kuʁ.ti.zam/	courtisâtes /kuʁ.ti.zat/	courtisèrent /kuʁ.ti.zɛʁ/
	future	courtiserai /kuʁ.tiz.ʁe/	courtiseras /kuʁ.tiz.ʁa/	courtisera /kuʁ.tiz.ʁa/	courtiserons /kuʁ.tiz.ʁɔ̃/	courtiserez /kuʁ.tiz.ʁe/	courtiseront /kuʁ.tiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	courtiserais /kuʁ.tiz.ʁɛ/	courtiserais /kuʁ.tiz.ʁɛ/	courtiserait /kuʁ.tiz.ʁɛ/	courtiserions /kuʁ.ti.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	courtiseriez /kuʁ.ti.zə.ʁje/	courtiseraient /kuʁ.tiz.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	courtise /kuʁ.tiz/	courtises /kuʁ.tiz/	courtise /kuʁ.tiz/	courtisions /kuʁ.ti.zjɔ̃/	courtisiez /kuʁ.ti.zje/	courtisent /kuʁ.tiz/
	imperfect2	courtisasse /kuʁ.ti.zas/	courtisasses /kuʁ.ti.zas/	courtisât /kuʁ.ti.za/	courtisassions /kuʁ.ti.za.sjɔ̃/	courtisassiez /kuʁ.ti.za.sje/	courtisassent /kuʁ.ti.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	courtise /kuʁ.tiz/	—	courtisons /kuʁ.ti.zɔ̃/	courtisez /kuʁ.ti.ze/	—
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

• courtisan

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• courtiers