courtiser
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian corteggiare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kuʁ.ti.ze/
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Verb
courtiser
- (transitive) to court; to woo (to endeavor to gain someone's affection)
- Synonyms: faire la cour, (informal) draguer
Conjugation
Conjugation of courtiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | courtiser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | courtisant /kuʁ.ti.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | courtisé /kuʁ.ti.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | courtise /kuʁ.tiz/ |
courtises /kuʁ.tiz/ |
courtise /kuʁ.tiz/ |
courtisons /kuʁ.ti.zɔ̃/ |
courtisez /kuʁ.ti.ze/ |
courtisent /kuʁ.tiz/ |
| imperfect | courtisais /kuʁ.ti.zɛ/ |
courtisais /kuʁ.ti.zɛ/ |
courtisait /kuʁ.ti.zɛ/ |
courtisions /kuʁ.ti.zjɔ̃/ |
courtisiez /kuʁ.ti.zje/ |
courtisaient /kuʁ.ti.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | courtisai /kuʁ.ti.ze/ |
courtisas /kuʁ.ti.za/ |
courtisa /kuʁ.ti.za/ |
courtisâmes /kuʁ.ti.zam/ |
courtisâtes /kuʁ.ti.zat/ |
courtisèrent /kuʁ.ti.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | courtiserai /kuʁ.tiz.ʁe/ |
courtiseras /kuʁ.tiz.ʁa/ |
courtisera /kuʁ.tiz.ʁa/ |
courtiserons /kuʁ.tiz.ʁɔ̃/ |
courtiserez /kuʁ.tiz.ʁe/ |
courtiseront /kuʁ.tiz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | courtiserais /kuʁ.tiz.ʁɛ/ |
courtiserais /kuʁ.tiz.ʁɛ/ |
courtiserait /kuʁ.tiz.ʁɛ/ |
courtiserions /kuʁ.ti.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
courtiseriez /kuʁ.ti.zə.ʁje/ |
courtiseraient /kuʁ.tiz.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 | courtise /kuʁ.tiz/ |
courtises /kuʁ.tiz/ |
courtise /kuʁ.tiz/ |
courtisions /kuʁ.ti.zjɔ̃/ |
courtisiez /kuʁ.ti.zje/ |
courtisent /kuʁ.tiz/ |
| imperfect2 | courtisasse /kuʁ.ti.zas/ |
courtisasses /kuʁ.ti.zas/ |
courtisât /kuʁ.ti.za/ |
courtisassions /kuʁ.ti.za.sjɔ̃/ |
courtisassiez /kuʁ.ti.za.sje/ |
courtisassent /kuʁ.ti.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | courtise /kuʁ.tiz/ |
— | courtisons /kuʁ.ti.zɔ̃/ |
courtisez /kuʁ.ti.ze/ |
— | |
| 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
- “courtiser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.