ratatiner
French
Etymology
Of onomatopoeic origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁa.ta.ti.ne/
Audio: (file)
Verb
ratatiner
- (transitive, intransitive) to shrink, shrivel
- (pronominal) to shrivel (up)
- (informal) to badly damage, wreck, to destroy
- (slang) to kill
- (slang) to soundly defeat; to cream
Conjugation
Conjugation of ratatiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ratatiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | ratatinant /ʁa.ta.ti.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ratatiné /ʁa.ta.ti.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | ratatine /ʁa.ta.tin/ |
ratatines /ʁa.ta.tin/ |
ratatine /ʁa.ta.tin/ |
ratatinons /ʁa.ta.ti.nɔ̃/ |
ratatinez /ʁa.ta.ti.ne/ |
ratatinent /ʁa.ta.tin/ |
| imperfect | ratatinais /ʁa.ta.ti.nɛ/ |
ratatinais /ʁa.ta.ti.nɛ/ |
ratatinait /ʁa.ta.ti.nɛ/ |
ratatinions /ʁa.ta.ti.njɔ̃/ |
ratatiniez /ʁa.ta.ti.nje/ |
ratatinaient /ʁa.ta.ti.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ratatinai /ʁa.ta.ti.ne/ |
ratatinas /ʁa.ta.ti.na/ |
ratatina /ʁa.ta.ti.na/ |
ratatinâmes /ʁa.ta.ti.nam/ |
ratatinâtes /ʁa.ta.ti.nat/ |
ratatinèrent /ʁa.ta.ti.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | ratatinerai /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁe/ |
ratatineras /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁa/ |
ratatinera /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁa/ |
ratatinerons /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁɔ̃/ |
ratatinerez /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁe/ |
ratatineront /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ratatinerais /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁɛ/ |
ratatinerais /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁɛ/ |
ratatinerait /ʁa.ta.tin.ʁɛ/ |
ratatinerions /ʁa.ta.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ratatineriez /ʁa.ta.ti.nə.ʁje/ |
ratatineraient /ʁa.ta.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 | ratatine /ʁa.ta.tin/ |
ratatines /ʁa.ta.tin/ |
ratatine /ʁa.ta.tin/ |
ratatinions /ʁa.ta.ti.njɔ̃/ |
ratatiniez /ʁa.ta.ti.nje/ |
ratatinent /ʁa.ta.tin/ |
| imperfect2 | ratatinasse /ʁa.ta.ti.nas/ |
ratatinasses /ʁa.ta.ti.nas/ |
ratatinât /ʁa.ta.ti.na/ |
ratatinassions /ʁa.ta.ti.na.sjɔ̃/ |
ratatinassiez /ʁa.ta.ti.na.sje/ |
ratatinassent /ʁa.ta.ti.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ratatine /ʁa.ta.tin/ |
— | ratatinons /ʁa.ta.ti.nɔ̃/ |
ratatinez /ʁa.ta.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- ratatinage
- ratatinement
Further reading
- “ratatiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.