draguer
French
Etymology
From Middle French dragger (“to dredge”), equivalent to drague + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dʁa.ɡe/
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Verb
draguer
- (transitive) to dredge (to make a channel wider or deeper)
- (transitive) to dredge (to bring something underwater to surface)
- (transitive, colloquial, slang) to chat up (to talk to flirtatiously), to flirt, to hit on somebody
- (intransitive, colloquial, slang) to cruise for sexual partners
Conjugation
Conjugation of draguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | draguer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | draguant /dʁa.ɡɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | dragué /dʁa.ɡe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | drague /dʁaɡ/ |
dragues /dʁaɡ/ |
drague /dʁaɡ/ |
draguons /dʁa.ɡɔ̃/ |
draguez /dʁa.ɡe/ |
draguent /dʁaɡ/ |
| imperfect | draguais /dʁa.ɡɛ/ |
draguais /dʁa.ɡɛ/ |
draguait /dʁa.ɡɛ/ |
draguions /dʁa.ɡjɔ̃/ |
draguiez /dʁa.ɡje/ |
draguaient /dʁa.ɡɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | draguai /dʁa.ɡe/ |
draguas /dʁa.ɡa/ |
dragua /dʁa.ɡa/ |
draguâmes /dʁa.ɡam/ |
draguâtes /dʁa.ɡat/ |
draguèrent /dʁa.ɡɛʁ/ | |
| future | draguerai /dʁa.ɡʁe/ |
dragueras /dʁa.ɡʁa/ |
draguera /dʁa.ɡʁa/ |
draguerons /dʁa.ɡʁɔ̃/ |
draguerez /dʁa.ɡʁe/ |
dragueront /dʁa.ɡʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | draguerais /dʁa.ɡʁɛ/ |
draguerais /dʁa.ɡʁɛ/ |
draguerait /dʁa.ɡʁɛ/ |
draguerions /dʁa.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dragueriez /dʁa.ɡə.ʁje/ |
dragueraient /dʁa.ɡʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | drague /dʁaɡ/ |
dragues /dʁaɡ/ |
drague /dʁaɡ/ |
draguions /dʁa.ɡjɔ̃/ |
draguiez /dʁa.ɡje/ |
draguent /dʁaɡ/ |
| imperfect2 | draguasse /dʁa.ɡas/ |
draguasses /dʁa.ɡas/ |
draguât /dʁa.ɡa/ |
draguassions /dʁa.ɡa.sjɔ̃/ |
draguassiez /dʁa.ɡa.sje/ |
draguassent /dʁa.ɡas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | drague /dʁaɡ/ |
— | draguons /dʁa.ɡɔ̃/ |
draguez /dʁa.ɡe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Italian: dragare
Further reading
- “draguer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.