butiner
French
Etymology
From butin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /by.ti.ne/
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Verb
butiner
- (intransitive) to gather pollen, gather nectar
- (transitive) to gather (pollen)
- (transitive, figurative) to glean, pick up (ideas, concepts etc.)
- (intransitive, colloquial) to surf the internet, to browse
- (transitive, slang) to snog (UK), to make out with (US)
Conjugation
Conjugation of butiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | butiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | butinant /by.ti.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | butiné /by.ti.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | butine /by.tin/ |
butines /by.tin/ |
butine /by.tin/ |
butinons /by.ti.nɔ̃/ |
butinez /by.ti.ne/ |
butinent /by.tin/ |
| imperfect | butinais /by.ti.nɛ/ |
butinais /by.ti.nɛ/ |
butinait /by.ti.nɛ/ |
butinions /by.ti.njɔ̃/ |
butiniez /by.ti.nje/ |
butinaient /by.ti.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | butinai /by.ti.ne/ |
butinas /by.ti.na/ |
butina /by.ti.na/ |
butinâmes /by.ti.nam/ |
butinâtes /by.ti.nat/ |
butinèrent /by.ti.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | butinerai /by.tin.ʁe/ |
butineras /by.tin.ʁa/ |
butinera /by.tin.ʁa/ |
butinerons /by.tin.ʁɔ̃/ |
butinerez /by.tin.ʁe/ |
butineront /by.tin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | butinerais /by.tin.ʁɛ/ |
butinerais /by.tin.ʁɛ/ |
butinerait /by.tin.ʁɛ/ |
butinerions /by.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
butineriez /by.ti.nə.ʁje/ |
butineraient /by.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 | butine /by.tin/ |
butines /by.tin/ |
butine /by.tin/ |
butinions /by.ti.njɔ̃/ |
butiniez /by.ti.nje/ |
butinent /by.tin/ |
| imperfect2 | butinasse /by.ti.nas/ |
butinasses /by.ti.nas/ |
butinât /by.ti.na/ |
butinassions /by.ti.na.sjɔ̃/ |
butinassiez /by.ti.na.sje/ |
butinassent /by.ti.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | butine /by.tin/ |
— | butinons /by.ti.nɔ̃/ |
butinez /by.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “butiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.