popoter

French

Etymology

From popote (“food, dinner, meal”) +‎ -er (verb suffix).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /pɔ.pɔ.te/

Verb

popoter (intransitive)

1. (familiar) to cook, prepare a meal
   • 1996, Louis Boyé, Un jour, le grand bateau viendra : Chronique de la résistance, L’Harmattan, Paris, page 359:

     Nous errons tristement dans les rues quand nous avisons une compagnie de la Wehrmacht en train de popoter à la roulante sur la place du village.

     We're wandering miserably through the streets when we catch sight of a company of Wehrmacht in the process of making a meal at the mobile canteen in the village square.

2. (archaic) to chat, chatter, converse

   Synonyms: bavarder, papoter

3. (video games) to use potions

Conjugation

Conjugation of popoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	popoter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	popotant /pɔ.pɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		popoté /pɔ.pɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	popote /pɔ.pɔt/	popotes /pɔ.pɔt/	popote /pɔ.pɔt/	popotons /pɔ.pɔ.tɔ̃/	popotez /pɔ.pɔ.te/	popotent /pɔ.pɔt/
	imperfect	popotais /pɔ.pɔ.tɛ/	popotais /pɔ.pɔ.tɛ/	popotait /pɔ.pɔ.tɛ/	popotions /pɔ.pɔ.tjɔ̃/	popotiez /pɔ.pɔ.tje/	popotaient /pɔ.pɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	popotai /pɔ.pɔ.te/	popotas /pɔ.pɔ.ta/	popota /pɔ.pɔ.ta/	popotâmes /pɔ.pɔ.tam/	popotâtes /pɔ.pɔ.tat/	popotèrent /pɔ.pɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	popoterai /pɔ.pɔ.tʁe/	popoteras /pɔ.pɔ.tʁa/	popotera /pɔ.pɔ.tʁa/	popoterons /pɔ.pɔ.tʁɔ̃/	popoterez /pɔ.pɔ.tʁe/	popoteront /pɔ.pɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	popoterais /pɔ.pɔ.tʁɛ/	popoterais /pɔ.pɔ.tʁɛ/	popoterait /pɔ.pɔ.tʁɛ/	popoterions /pɔ.pɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	popoteriez /pɔ.pɔ.tə.ʁje/	popoteraient /pɔ.pɔ.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	popote /pɔ.pɔt/	popotes /pɔ.pɔt/	popote /pɔ.pɔt/	popotions /pɔ.pɔ.tjɔ̃/	popotiez /pɔ.pɔ.tje/	popotent /pɔ.pɔt/
	imperfect2	popotasse /pɔ.pɔ.tas/	popotasses /pɔ.pɔ.tas/	popotât /pɔ.pɔ.ta/	popotassions /pɔ.pɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	popotassiez /pɔ.pɔ.ta.sje/	popotassent /pɔ.pɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	popote /pɔ.pɔt/	—	popotons /pɔ.pɔ.tɔ̃/	popotez /pɔ.pɔ.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).

References

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