fayoter

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.jɔ.te/

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Verb

fayoter

1. (France, informal) to brownnose
   • 2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 86:

     Quelques stagiaires éclatent de rire en te montrant du doigt, ils croient que tu plaisantes, en profitent pour fayoter en s’sclaffant à tes facéties pathétiques.

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Conjugation

Conjugation of fayoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fayoter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fayotant /fa.jɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fayoté /fa.jɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fayote /fa.jɔt/	fayotes /fa.jɔt/	fayote /fa.jɔt/	fayotons /fa.jɔ.tɔ̃/	fayotez /fa.jɔ.te/	fayotent /fa.jɔt/
	imperfect	fayotais /fa.jɔ.tɛ/	fayotais /fa.jɔ.tɛ/	fayotait /fa.jɔ.tɛ/	fayotions /fa.jɔ.tjɔ̃/	fayotiez /fa.jɔ.tje/	fayotaient /fa.jɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	fayotai /fa.jɔ.te/	fayotas /fa.jɔ.ta/	fayota /fa.jɔ.ta/	fayotâmes /fa.jɔ.tam/	fayotâtes /fa.jɔ.tat/	fayotèrent /fa.jɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	fayoterai /fa.jɔ.tʁe/	fayoteras /fa.jɔ.tʁa/	fayotera /fa.jɔ.tʁa/	fayoterons /fa.jɔ.tʁɔ̃/	fayoterez /fa.jɔ.tʁe/	fayoteront /fa.jɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fayoterais /fa.jɔ.tʁɛ/	fayoterais /fa.jɔ.tʁɛ/	fayoterait /fa.jɔ.tʁɛ/	fayoterions /fa.jɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	fayoteriez /fa.jɔ.tə.ʁje/	fayoteraient /fa.jɔ.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	fayote /fa.jɔt/	fayotes /fa.jɔt/	fayote /fa.jɔt/	fayotions /fa.jɔ.tjɔ̃/	fayotiez /fa.jɔ.tje/	fayotent /fa.jɔt/
	imperfect2	fayotasse /fa.jɔ.tas/	fayotasses /fa.jɔ.tas/	fayotât /fa.jɔ.ta/	fayotassions /fa.jɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	fayotassiez /fa.jɔ.ta.sje/	fayotassent /fa.jɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fayote /fa.jɔt/	—	fayotons /fa.jɔ.tɔ̃/	fayotez /fa.jɔ.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).

Synonyms

• (Quebec, informal) téter

Further reading

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