tripoter

French

Etymology

From tripot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.pɔ.te/

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Verb

tripoter

1. to fiddle with
2. to feel up

Conjugation

Conjugation of tripoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tripoter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tripotant /tʁi.pɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tripoté /tʁi.pɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tripote /tʁi.pɔt/	tripotes /tʁi.pɔt/	tripote /tʁi.pɔt/	tripotons /tʁi.pɔ.tɔ̃/	tripotez /tʁi.pɔ.te/	tripotent /tʁi.pɔt/
	imperfect	tripotais /tʁi.pɔ.tɛ/	tripotais /tʁi.pɔ.tɛ/	tripotait /tʁi.pɔ.tɛ/	tripotions /tʁi.pɔ.tjɔ̃/	tripotiez /tʁi.pɔ.tje/	tripotaient /tʁi.pɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	tripotai /tʁi.pɔ.te/	tripotas /tʁi.pɔ.ta/	tripota /tʁi.pɔ.ta/	tripotâmes /tʁi.pɔ.tam/	tripotâtes /tʁi.pɔ.tat/	tripotèrent /tʁi.pɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	tripoterai /tʁi.pɔ.tʁe/	tripoteras /tʁi.pɔ.tʁa/	tripotera /tʁi.pɔ.tʁa/	tripoterons /tʁi.pɔ.tʁɔ̃/	tripoterez /tʁi.pɔ.tʁe/	tripoteront /tʁi.pɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tripoterais /tʁi.pɔ.tʁɛ/	tripoterais /tʁi.pɔ.tʁɛ/	tripoterait /tʁi.pɔ.tʁɛ/	tripoterions /tʁi.pɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	tripoteriez /tʁi.pɔ.tə.ʁje/	tripoteraient /tʁi.pɔ.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	tripote /tʁi.pɔt/	tripotes /tʁi.pɔt/	tripote /tʁi.pɔt/	tripotions /tʁi.pɔ.tjɔ̃/	tripotiez /tʁi.pɔ.tje/	tripotent /tʁi.pɔt/
	imperfect2	tripotasse /tʁi.pɔ.tas/	tripotasses /tʁi.pɔ.tas/	tripotât /tʁi.pɔ.ta/	tripotassions /tʁi.pɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	tripotassiez /tʁi.pɔ.ta.sje/	tripotassent /tʁi.pɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tripote /tʁi.pɔt/	—	tripotons /tʁi.pɔ.tɔ̃/	tripotez /tʁi.pɔ.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

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