tatouer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English tattoo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.twe/

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• Rhymes: -we

Verb

tatouer

1. (transitive) to tattoo

Conjugation

Conjugation of tatouer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tatouer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tatouant /ta.twɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tatoué /ta.twe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tatoue /ta.tu/	tatoues /ta.tu/	tatoue /ta.tu/	tatouons /ta.twɔ̃/	tatouez /ta.twe/	tatouent /ta.tu/
	imperfect	tatouais /ta.twɛ/	tatouais /ta.twɛ/	tatouait /ta.twɛ/	tatouions /ta.tu.jɔ̃/	tatouiez /ta.tu.je/	tatouaient /ta.twɛ/
	past historic2	tatouai /ta.twe/	tatouas /ta.twa/	tatoua /ta.twa/	tatouâmes /ta.twam/	tatouâtes /ta.twat/	tatouèrent /ta.twɛʁ/
	future	tatouerai /ta.tu.ʁe/	tatoueras /ta.tu.ʁa/	tatouera /ta.tu.ʁa/	tatouerons /ta.tu.ʁɔ̃/	tatouerez /ta.tu.ʁe/	tatoueront /ta.tu.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tatouerais /ta.tu.ʁɛ/	tatouerais /ta.tu.ʁɛ/	tatouerait /ta.tu.ʁɛ/	tatouerions /ta.tu.ʁjɔ̃/	tatoueriez /ta.tu.ʁje/	tatoueraient /ta.tu.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	tatoue /ta.tu/	tatoues /ta.tu/	tatoue /ta.tu/	tatouions /ta.tu.jɔ̃/	tatouiez /ta.tu.je/	tatouent /ta.tu/
	imperfect2	tatouasse /ta.twas/	tatouasses /ta.twas/	tatouât /ta.twa/	tatouassions /ta.twa.sjɔ̃/	tatouassiez /ta.twa.sje/	tatouassent /ta.twas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tatoue /ta.tu/	—	tatouons /ta.twɔ̃/	tatouez /ta.twe/	—
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

• tatouage

 

Descendants

• → Polish: tatuować
• → Romanian: tatua
• → Ukrainian: татуюва́ти (tatujuváty)

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English tattoo +‎ -er.

Verb

tatouer (gerund tatouéthie)

1. (Jersey) to tattoo