flirter

English

Etymology

From flirt +‎ -er. Compare Old English fleardere (“one who acts wantonly or with folly”).

Noun

flirter (plural flirters)

1. One who flirts.
   • 1988, Glamour, volume 86, numbers 7-9, page 26:

     I just ended a relationship with a compulsive flirter, after realizing that no one deserved to be treated as I was.

Anagrams

• trifler

French

Alternative forms

• fleureter, fleurter

Etymology

Borrowed from English flirt. Forms with -eu- may have arisen by influence of fleur (“flower”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flœʁ.te/

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Verb

flirter

1. (intransitive) to flirt

   Hyponym: see courir les filles

Conjugation

Conjugation of flirter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	flirter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	flirtant /flœʁ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		flirté /flœʁ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	flirte /flœʁt/	flirtes /flœʁt/	flirte /flœʁt/	flirtons /flœʁ.tɔ̃/	flirtez /flœʁ.te/	flirtent /flœʁt/
	imperfect	flirtais /flœʁ.tɛ/	flirtais /flœʁ.tɛ/	flirtait /flœʁ.tɛ/	flirtions /flœʁ.tjɔ̃/	flirtiez /flœʁ.tje/	flirtaient /flœʁ.tɛ/
	past historic2	flirtai /flœʁ.te/	flirtas /flœʁ.ta/	flirta /flœʁ.ta/	flirtâmes /flœʁ.tam/	flirtâtes /flœʁ.tat/	flirtèrent /flœʁ.tɛʁ/
	future	flirterai /flœʁ.tə.ʁe/	flirteras /flœʁ.tə.ʁa/	flirtera /flœʁ.tə.ʁa/	flirterons /flœʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/	flirterez /flœʁ.tə.ʁe/	flirteront /flœʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	flirterais /flœʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	flirterais /flœʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	flirterait /flœʁ.tə.ʁɛ/	flirterions /flœʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	flirteriez /flœʁ.tə.ʁje/	flirteraient /flœʁ.tə.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	flirte /flœʁt/	flirtes /flœʁt/	flirte /flœʁt/	flirtions /flœʁ.tjɔ̃/	flirtiez /flœʁ.tje/	flirtent /flœʁt/
	imperfect2	flirtasse /flœʁ.tas/	flirtasses /flœʁ.tas/	flirtât /flœʁ.ta/	flirtassions /flœʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/	flirtassiez /flœʁ.ta.sje/	flirtassent /flœʁ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	flirte /flœʁt/	—	flirtons /flœʁ.tɔ̃/	flirtez /flœʁ.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• flirt
• flirteur

 

See also

• faire la cour
• fréquenter

 

Further reading

• “flirter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• filtrer, flétrir