doigter
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dwa.te/
- Homophones: doigté, doigtez
Verb
doigter
- (transitive, music) to finger, to put fingerings on a music sheet
- (transitive, sex) to finger, to flick off
Conjugation
Conjugation of doigter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | doigter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | doigtant /dwa.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | doigté /dwa.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | doigte /dwat/ |
doigtes /dwat/ |
doigte /dwat/ |
doigtons /dwa.tɔ̃/ |
doigtez /dwa.te/ |
doigtent /dwat/ |
| imperfect | doigtais /dwa.tɛ/ |
doigtais /dwa.tɛ/ |
doigtait /dwa.tɛ/ |
doigtions /dwa.tjɔ̃/ |
doigtiez /dwa.tje/ |
doigtaient /dwa.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | doigtai /dwa.te/ |
doigtas /dwa.ta/ |
doigta /dwa.ta/ |
doigtâmes /dwa.tam/ |
doigtâtes /dwa.tat/ |
doigtèrent /dwa.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | doigterai /dwa.tʁe/ |
doigteras /dwa.tʁa/ |
doigtera /dwa.tʁa/ |
doigterons /dwa.tʁɔ̃/ |
doigterez /dwa.tʁe/ |
doigteront /dwa.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | doigterais /dwa.tʁɛ/ |
doigterais /dwa.tʁɛ/ |
doigterait /dwa.tʁɛ/ |
doigterions /dwa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
doigteriez /dwa.tə.ʁje/ |
doigteraient /dwa.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 | doigte /dwat/ |
doigtes /dwat/ |
doigte /dwat/ |
doigtions /dwa.tjɔ̃/ |
doigtiez /dwa.tje/ |
doigtent /dwat/ |
| imperfect2 | doigtasse /dwa.tas/ |
doigtasses /dwa.tas/ |
doigtât /dwa.ta/ |
doigtassions /dwa.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
doigtassiez /dwa.ta.sje/ |
doigtassent /dwa.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | doigte /dwat/ |
— | doigtons /dwa.tɔ̃/ |
doigtez /dwa.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). | |||||||
Noun
doigter m (plural doigters)
Further reading
- “doigter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.