frotter
French
Etymology
From Middle French frotter, from Old French froter (“to stroke, wipe, rub”), of uncertain origin. Generally assumed to be from Latin frictāre, frequentative of fricāre through its past participle frictus (“rubbed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fʁɔ.te/
Audio: (file)
Verb
frotter
- to rub, chafe
- to scrub, scour
- to scrape
- to stone
- (figurative, informal, pronominal, se frotter) to rub (someone) in the wrong way, to get on (someone)'s bad side
- Ne te frotte pas à elle! Elle a beaucoup d'ennuis.
- Don't get on her bad side! She has a lot of issues.
Conjugation
Conjugation of frotter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | frotter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | frottant /fʁɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | frotté /fʁɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | frotte /fʁɔt/ |
frottes /fʁɔt/ |
frotte /fʁɔt/ |
frottons /fʁɔ.tɔ̃/ |
frottez /fʁɔ.te/ |
frottent /fʁɔt/ |
| imperfect | frottais /fʁɔ.tɛ/ |
frottais /fʁɔ.tɛ/ |
frottait /fʁɔ.tɛ/ |
frottions /fʁɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
frottiez /fʁɔ.tje/ |
frottaient /fʁɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | frottai /fʁɔ.te/ |
frottas /fʁɔ.ta/ |
frotta /fʁɔ.ta/ |
frottâmes /fʁɔ.tam/ |
frottâtes /fʁɔ.tat/ |
frottèrent /fʁɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | frotterai /fʁɔ.tʁe/ |
frotteras /fʁɔ.tʁa/ |
frottera /fʁɔ.tʁa/ |
frotterons /fʁɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
frotterez /fʁɔ.tʁe/ |
frotteront /fʁɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | frotterais /fʁɔ.tʁɛ/ |
frotterais /fʁɔ.tʁɛ/ |
frotterait /fʁɔ.tʁɛ/ |
frotterions /fʁɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
frotteriez /fʁɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
frotteraient /fʁɔ.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 | frotte /fʁɔt/ |
frottes /fʁɔt/ |
frotte /fʁɔt/ |
frottions /fʁɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
frottiez /fʁɔ.tje/ |
frottent /fʁɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | frottasse /fʁɔ.tas/ |
frottasses /fʁɔ.tas/ |
frottât /fʁɔ.ta/ |
frottassions /fʁɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
frottassiez /fʁɔ.ta.sje/ |
frottassent /fʁɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | frotte /fʁɔt/ |
— | frottons /fʁɔ.tɔ̃/ |
frottez /fʁɔ.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Descendants
- Turkish: fortçu
Further reading
- “frotter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Alternative forms
- frottaïr (Guernsey)
Etymology
Probably from Latin frictāre, frequentative of fricāre through its past participle frictus (“rubbed”).
Pronunciation
Audio (Jersey): (file)
Verb
frotter