fretter

English

Etymology

From Middle English fretere (“that which frets, devours, or corrodes”), equivalent to fret +‎ -er.

Noun

fretter (plural fretters)

1. One who or that which frets.

Derived terms

• vine-fretter

French

Etymology

From frette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁɛ.te/ ~ /fʁe.te/

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Verb

fretter

1. to reinforce with ferrules

Conjugation

Conjugation of fretter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fretter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	frettant /fʁɛ.tɑ̃/ or /fʁe.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fretté /fʁɛ.te/ or /fʁe.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	frette /fʁɛt/	frettes /fʁɛt/	frette /fʁɛt/	frettons /fʁɛ.tɔ̃/ or /fʁe.tɔ̃/	frettez /fʁɛ.te/ or /fʁe.te/	frettent /fʁɛt/
	imperfect	frettais /fʁɛ.tɛ/ or /fʁe.tɛ/	frettais /fʁɛ.tɛ/ or /fʁe.tɛ/	frettait /fʁɛ.tɛ/ or /fʁe.tɛ/	frettions /fʁɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /fʁe.tjɔ̃/	frettiez /fʁɛ.tje/ or /fʁe.tje/	frettaient /fʁɛ.tɛ/ or /fʁe.tɛ/
	past historic2	frettai /fʁɛ.te/ or /fʁe.te/	frettas /fʁɛ.ta/ or /fʁe.ta/	fretta /fʁɛ.ta/ or /fʁe.ta/	frettâmes /fʁɛ.tam/ or /fʁe.tam/	frettâtes /fʁɛ.tat/ or /fʁe.tat/	frettèrent /fʁɛ.tɛʁ/ or /fʁe.tɛʁ/
	future	fretterai /fʁɛ.tʁe/ or /fʁe.tʁe/	fretteras /fʁɛ.tʁa/ or /fʁe.tʁa/	frettera /fʁɛ.tʁa/ or /fʁe.tʁa/	fretterons /fʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /fʁe.tʁɔ̃/	fretterez /fʁɛ.tʁe/ or /fʁe.tʁe/	fretteront /fʁɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /fʁe.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fretterais /fʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fʁe.tʁɛ/	fretterais /fʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fʁe.tʁɛ/	fretterait /fʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fʁe.tʁɛ/	fretterions /fʁɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /fʁe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	fretteriez /fʁɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /fʁe.tə.ʁje/	fretteraient /fʁɛ.tʁɛ/ or /fʁe.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	frette /fʁɛt/	frettes /fʁɛt/	frette /fʁɛt/	frettions /fʁɛ.tjɔ̃/ or /fʁe.tjɔ̃/	frettiez /fʁɛ.tje/ or /fʁe.tje/	frettent /fʁɛt/
	imperfect2	frettasse /fʁɛ.tas/ or /fʁe.tas/	frettasses /fʁɛ.tas/ or /fʁe.tas/	frettât /fʁɛ.ta/ or /fʁe.ta/	frettassions /fʁɛ.ta.sjɔ̃/ or /fʁe.ta.sjɔ̃/	frettassiez /fʁɛ.ta.sje/ or /fʁe.ta.sje/	frettassent /fʁɛ.tas/ or /fʁe.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	frette /fʁɛt/	—	frettons /fʁɛ.tɔ̃/ or /fʁe.tɔ̃/	frettez /fʁɛ.te/ or /fʁe.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).

Derived terms

• défretter
• refretter

Further reading

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