tournicoter

French

Etymology

From tourniquer (“to wind”) +‎ -oter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.te/

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Verb

tournicoter

1. (intransitive) to flit around

Conjugation

Conjugation of tournicoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tournicoter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tournicotant /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tournicoté /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tournicote /tuʁ.ni.kɔt/	tournicotes /tuʁ.ni.kɔt/	tournicote /tuʁ.ni.kɔt/	tournicotons /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tɔ̃/	tournicotez /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.te/	tournicotent /tuʁ.ni.kɔt/
	imperfect	tournicotais /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tɛ/	tournicotais /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tɛ/	tournicotait /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tɛ/	tournicotions /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tjɔ̃/	tournicotiez /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tje/	tournicotaient /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	tournicotai /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.te/	tournicotas /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.ta/	tournicota /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.ta/	tournicotâmes /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tam/	tournicotâtes /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tat/	tournicotèrent /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	tournicoterai /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tʁe/	tournicoteras /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tʁa/	tournicotera /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tʁa/	tournicoterons /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/	tournicoterez /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tʁe/	tournicoteront /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tournicoterais /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tʁɛ/	tournicoterais /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tʁɛ/	tournicoterait /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tʁɛ/	tournicoterions /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	tournicoteriez /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tə.ʁje/	tournicoteraient /tuʁ.ni.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	tournicote /tuʁ.ni.kɔt/	tournicotes /tuʁ.ni.kɔt/	tournicote /tuʁ.ni.kɔt/	tournicotions /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tjɔ̃/	tournicotiez /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tje/	tournicotent /tuʁ.ni.kɔt/
	imperfect2	tournicotasse /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tas/	tournicotasses /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tas/	tournicotât /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.ta/	tournicotassions /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	tournicotassiez /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.ta.sje/	tournicotassent /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tournicote /tuʁ.ni.kɔt/	—	tournicotons /tuʁ.ni.kɔ.tɔ̃/	tournicotez /tuʁ.ni.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

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