lutiner

French

Etymology

From lutin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

lutiner

1. to tease, provoke

Conjugation

Conjugation of lutiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	lutiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	lutinant /ly.ti.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		lutiné /ly.ti.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	lutine /ly.tin/	lutines /ly.tin/	lutine /ly.tin/	lutinons /ly.ti.nɔ̃/	lutinez /ly.ti.ne/	lutinent /ly.tin/
	imperfect	lutinais /ly.ti.nɛ/	lutinais /ly.ti.nɛ/	lutinait /ly.ti.nɛ/	lutinions /ly.ti.njɔ̃/	lutiniez /ly.ti.nje/	lutinaient /ly.ti.nɛ/
	past historic2	lutinai /ly.ti.ne/	lutinas /ly.ti.na/	lutina /ly.ti.na/	lutinâmes /ly.ti.nam/	lutinâtes /ly.ti.nat/	lutinèrent /ly.ti.nɛʁ/
	future	lutinerai /ly.tin.ʁe/	lutineras /ly.tin.ʁa/	lutinera /ly.tin.ʁa/	lutinerons /ly.tin.ʁɔ̃/	lutinerez /ly.tin.ʁe/	lutineront /ly.tin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	lutinerais /ly.tin.ʁɛ/	lutinerais /ly.tin.ʁɛ/	lutinerait /ly.tin.ʁɛ/	lutinerions /ly.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	lutineriez /ly.ti.nə.ʁje/	lutineraient /ly.tin.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	lutine /ly.tin/	lutines /ly.tin/	lutine /ly.tin/	lutinions /ly.ti.njɔ̃/	lutiniez /ly.ti.nje/	lutinent /ly.tin/
	imperfect2	lutinasse /ly.ti.nas/	lutinasses /ly.ti.nas/	lutinât /ly.ti.na/	lutinassions /ly.ti.na.sjɔ̃/	lutinassiez /ly.ti.na.sje/	lutinassent /ly.ti.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	lutine /ly.tin/	—	lutinons /ly.ti.nɔ̃/	lutinez /ly.ti.ne/	—
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

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