frotter

French

Etymology

Probably from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin frictāre , present active infinitive of frictō, frequentative of fricō through its past participle frictus (“rubbed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁɔ.te/

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Verb

frotter

1. to rub, chafe
2. to scrub, scour
3. to scrape
4. to fritter
5. to stone
6. (figurative, informal, takes a reflexive pronoun, se frotter) to rub (someone) in the wrong way, to get on (someone)'s bad side

   Ne te frotte pas à elle! Elle a beaucoup d'ennuis.

   Don't get on her bad side! She has a lot of issues.

Conjugation

Conjugation of frotter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	frotter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	frottant /fʁɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		frotté /fʁɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	frotte /fʁɔt/	frottes /fʁɔt/	frotte /fʁɔt/	frottons /fʁɔ.tɔ̃/	frottez /fʁɔ.te/	frottent /fʁɔt/
	imperfect	frottais /fʁɔ.tɛ/	frottais /fʁɔ.tɛ/	frottait /fʁɔ.tɛ/	frottions /fʁɔ.tjɔ̃/	frottiez /fʁɔ.tje/	frottaient /fʁɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	frottai /fʁɔ.te/	frottas /fʁɔ.ta/	frotta /fʁɔ.ta/	frottâmes /fʁɔ.tam/	frottâtes /fʁɔ.tat/	frottèrent /fʁɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	frotterai /fʁɔ.tʁe/	frotteras /fʁɔ.tʁa/	frottera /fʁɔ.tʁa/	frotterons /fʁɔ.tʁɔ̃/	frotterez /fʁɔ.tʁe/	frotteront /fʁɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	frotterais /fʁɔ.tʁɛ/	frotterais /fʁɔ.tʁɛ/	frotterait /fʁɔ.tʁɛ/	frotterions /fʁɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	frotteriez /fʁɔ.tə.ʁje/	frotteraient /fʁɔ.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	frotte /fʁɔt/	frottes /fʁɔt/	frotte /fʁɔt/	frottions /fʁɔ.tjɔ̃/	frottiez /fʁɔ.tje/	frottent /fʁɔt/
	imperfect2	frottasse /fʁɔ.tas/	frottasses /fʁɔ.tas/	frottât /fʁɔ.ta/	frottassions /fʁɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	frottassiez /fʁɔ.ta.sje/	frottassent /fʁɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	frotte /fʁɔt/	—	frottons /fʁɔ.tɔ̃/	frottez /fʁɔ.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).

Further reading

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

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Norman

Alternative forms

• frottaïr (Guernsey)

Etymology

Probably from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin frictāre, present active infinitive of frictō, frequentative of fricō through its past participle frictus (“rubbed”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Jersey):

  (file)

Verb

frotter

1. (Jersey) to rub