tapoter
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Pronunciation[edit]
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Verb[edit]
tapoter
- to tap (strike lightly and repeatedly)
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of tapoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tapoter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tapotant /ta.pɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tapoté /ta.pɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tapote /ta.pɔt/ |
tapotes /ta.pɔt/ |
tapote /ta.pɔt/ |
tapotons /ta.pɔ.tɔ̃/ |
tapotez /ta.pɔ.te/ |
tapotent /ta.pɔt/ |
| imperfect | tapotais /ta.pɔ.tɛ/ |
tapotais /ta.pɔ.tɛ/ |
tapotait /ta.pɔ.tɛ/ |
tapotions /ta.pɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
tapotiez /ta.pɔ.tje/ |
tapotaient /ta.pɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tapotai /ta.pɔ.te/ |
tapotas /ta.pɔ.ta/ |
tapota /ta.pɔ.ta/ |
tapotâmes /ta.pɔ.tam/ |
tapotâtes /ta.pɔ.tat/ |
tapotèrent /ta.pɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | tapoterai /ta.pɔ.tʁe/ |
tapoteras /ta.pɔ.tʁa/ |
tapotera /ta.pɔ.tʁa/ |
tapoterons /ta.pɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
tapoterez /ta.pɔ.tʁe/ |
tapoteront /ta.pɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tapoterais /ta.pɔ.tʁɛ/ |
tapoterais /ta.pɔ.tʁɛ/ |
tapoterait /ta.pɔ.tʁɛ/ |
tapoterions /ta.pɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tapoteriez /ta.pɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
tapoteraient /ta.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 | tapote /ta.pɔt/ |
tapotes /ta.pɔt/ |
tapote /ta.pɔt/ |
tapotions /ta.pɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
tapotiez /ta.pɔ.tje/ |
tapotent /ta.pɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | tapotasse /ta.pɔ.tas/ |
tapotasses /ta.pɔ.tas/ |
tapotât /ta.pɔ.ta/ |
tapotassions /ta.pɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
tapotassiez /ta.pɔ.ta.sje/ |
tapotassent /ta.pɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tapote /ta.pɔt/ |
— | tapotons /ta.pɔ.tɔ̃/ |
tapotez /ta.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading[edit]
- “tapoter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.