grelotter

French

Etymology

From grelot +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁə.lɔ.te/

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Verb

grelotter

1. to shiver, tremble
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     Comme la salle était fraîche, elle grelottait tout en mangeant, ce qui découvrait un peu ses lèvres charnues, qu'elle avait coutume de mordillonner à ses moments de silence.

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   • 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN:

     Plus tard dans la nuit, quelques heures se sont écoulées, ou une minute, il ne sait pas, il grelotte de fièvre.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

Conjugation of grelotter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	grelotter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	grelottant /ɡʁə.lɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		grelotté /ɡʁə.lɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	grelotte /ɡʁə.lɔt/	grelottes /ɡʁə.lɔt/	grelotte /ɡʁə.lɔt/	grelottons /ɡʁə.lɔ.tɔ̃/	grelottez /ɡʁə.lɔ.te/	grelottent /ɡʁə.lɔt/
	imperfect	grelottais /ɡʁə.lɔ.tɛ/	grelottais /ɡʁə.lɔ.tɛ/	grelottait /ɡʁə.lɔ.tɛ/	grelottions /ɡʁə.lɔ.tjɔ̃/	grelottiez /ɡʁə.lɔ.tje/	grelottaient /ɡʁə.lɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	grelottai /ɡʁə.lɔ.te/	grelottas /ɡʁə.lɔ.ta/	grelotta /ɡʁə.lɔ.ta/	grelottâmes /ɡʁə.lɔ.tam/	grelottâtes /ɡʁə.lɔ.tat/	grelottèrent /ɡʁə.lɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	grelotterai /ɡʁə.lɔ.tʁe/	grelotteras /ɡʁə.lɔ.tʁa/	grelottera /ɡʁə.lɔ.tʁa/	grelotterons /ɡʁə.lɔ.tʁɔ̃/	grelotterez /ɡʁə.lɔ.tʁe/	grelotteront /ɡʁə.lɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	grelotterais /ɡʁə.lɔ.tʁɛ/	grelotterais /ɡʁə.lɔ.tʁɛ/	grelotterait /ɡʁə.lɔ.tʁɛ/	grelotterions /ɡʁə.lɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	grelotteriez /ɡʁə.lɔ.tə.ʁje/	grelotteraient /ɡʁə.lɔ.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	grelotte /ɡʁə.lɔt/	grelottes /ɡʁə.lɔt/	grelotte /ɡʁə.lɔt/	grelottions /ɡʁə.lɔ.tjɔ̃/	grelottiez /ɡʁə.lɔ.tje/	grelottent /ɡʁə.lɔt/
	imperfect2	grelottasse /ɡʁə.lɔ.tas/	grelottasses /ɡʁə.lɔ.tas/	grelottât /ɡʁə.lɔ.ta/	grelottassions /ɡʁə.lɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	grelottassiez /ɡʁə.lɔ.ta.sje/	grelottassent /ɡʁə.lɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	grelotte /ɡʁə.lɔt/	—	grelottons /ɡʁə.lɔ.tɔ̃/	grelottez /ɡʁə.lɔ.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).

Derived terms

• grelottard
• grelottement
• grelotteux
• regrelotter

Further reading

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