fricoter

French

Etymology

From fricot +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁi.kɔ.te/

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Verb

fricoter

1. (transitive, intransitive) to cook a stew
2. (transitive, intransitive) to flirt, knock about (with)

Conjugation

Conjugation of fricoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fricoter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fricotant /fʁi.kɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fricoté /fʁi.kɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fricote /fʁi.kɔt/	fricotes /fʁi.kɔt/	fricote /fʁi.kɔt/	fricotons /fʁi.kɔ.tɔ̃/	fricotez /fʁi.kɔ.te/	fricotent /fʁi.kɔt/
	imperfect	fricotais /fʁi.kɔ.tɛ/	fricotais /fʁi.kɔ.tɛ/	fricotait /fʁi.kɔ.tɛ/	fricotions /fʁi.kɔ.tjɔ̃/	fricotiez /fʁi.kɔ.tje/	fricotaient /fʁi.kɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	fricotai /fʁi.kɔ.te/	fricotas /fʁi.kɔ.ta/	fricota /fʁi.kɔ.ta/	fricotâmes /fʁi.kɔ.tam/	fricotâtes /fʁi.kɔ.tat/	fricotèrent /fʁi.kɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	fricoterai /fʁi.kɔ.tʁe/	fricoteras /fʁi.kɔ.tʁa/	fricotera /fʁi.kɔ.tʁa/	fricoterons /fʁi.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/	fricoterez /fʁi.kɔ.tʁe/	fricoteront /fʁi.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fricoterais /fʁi.kɔ.tʁɛ/	fricoterais /fʁi.kɔ.tʁɛ/	fricoterait /fʁi.kɔ.tʁɛ/	fricoterions /fʁi.kɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	fricoteriez /fʁi.kɔ.tə.ʁje/	fricoteraient /fʁi.kɔ.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	fricote /fʁi.kɔt/	fricotes /fʁi.kɔt/	fricote /fʁi.kɔt/	fricotions /fʁi.kɔ.tjɔ̃/	fricotiez /fʁi.kɔ.tje/	fricotent /fʁi.kɔt/
	imperfect2	fricotasse /fʁi.kɔ.tas/	fricotasses /fʁi.kɔ.tas/	fricotât /fʁi.kɔ.ta/	fricotassions /fʁi.kɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	fricotassiez /fʁi.kɔ.ta.sje/	fricotassent /fʁi.kɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fricote /fʁi.kɔt/	—	fricotons /fʁi.kɔ.tɔ̃/	fricotez /fʁi.kɔ.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).

Further reading

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