papilloter

French

Etymology

From papillon +‎ -oter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.pi.jɔ.te/

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• Homophones: papillotai, papilloté, papillotée, papillotées, papillotés, papillotez

Verb

papilloter

1. (intransitive) to blink
2. (intransitive) to flutter
3. (intransitive) to flicker

Conjugation

Conjugation of papilloter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	papilloter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	papillotant /pa.pi.jɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		papilloté /pa.pi.jɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	papillote /pa.pi.jɔt/	papillotes /pa.pi.jɔt/	papillote /pa.pi.jɔt/	papillotons /pa.pi.jɔ.tɔ̃/	papillotez /pa.pi.jɔ.te/	papillotent /pa.pi.jɔt/
	imperfect	papillotais /pa.pi.jɔ.tɛ/	papillotais /pa.pi.jɔ.tɛ/	papillotait /pa.pi.jɔ.tɛ/	papillotions /pa.pi.jɔ.tjɔ̃/	papillotiez /pa.pi.jɔ.tje/	papillotaient /pa.pi.jɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	papillotai /pa.pi.jɔ.te/	papillotas /pa.pi.jɔ.ta/	papillota /pa.pi.jɔ.ta/	papillotâmes /pa.pi.jɔ.tam/	papillotâtes /pa.pi.jɔ.tat/	papillotèrent /pa.pi.jɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	papilloterai /pa.pi.jɔ.tʁe/	papilloteras /pa.pi.jɔ.tʁa/	papillotera /pa.pi.jɔ.tʁa/	papilloterons /pa.pi.jɔ.tʁɔ̃/	papilloterez /pa.pi.jɔ.tʁe/	papilloteront /pa.pi.jɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	papilloterais /pa.pi.jɔ.tʁɛ/	papilloterais /pa.pi.jɔ.tʁɛ/	papilloterait /pa.pi.jɔ.tʁɛ/	papilloterions /pa.pi.jɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	papilloteriez /pa.pi.jɔ.tə.ʁje/	papilloteraient /pa.pi.jɔ.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	papillote /pa.pi.jɔt/	papillotes /pa.pi.jɔt/	papillote /pa.pi.jɔt/	papillotions /pa.pi.jɔ.tjɔ̃/	papillotiez /pa.pi.jɔ.tje/	papillotent /pa.pi.jɔt/
	imperfect2	papillotasse /pa.pi.jɔ.tas/	papillotasses /pa.pi.jɔ.tas/	papillotât /pa.pi.jɔ.ta/	papillotassions /pa.pi.jɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	papillotassiez /pa.pi.jɔ.ta.sje/	papillotassent /pa.pi.jɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	papillote /pa.pi.jɔt/	—	papillotons /pa.pi.jɔ.tɔ̃/	papillotez /pa.pi.jɔ.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

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