baratiner

French

Etymology

From baratin +‎ -er

Verb

baratiner

  1. (transitive) to chat up, sweet-talk (engage in small talk in order to seduce or convince)
    Il baratine une des serveuses. Comme elle parle allemand, lui français, les mots lui sont de peu de secours et c'est sans doute la raison pour laquelle il se tortille.
    He chats up one of the waitresses. As she speaks German, he in French, the words are of little help to him and that is probably why he struggles.
    (Georges Piroué, Le réduit national, 1995)
  2. (intransitive) to bullshit

Conjugation
Conjugation of baratiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle baratinant
/ba.ʁa.ti.nɑ̃/
past participle baratiné
/ba.ʁa.ti.ne/
infinitive
simple baratiner
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple baratinant
/ba.ʁa.ti.nɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present baratine
/ba.ʁa.tin/		 baratines
/ba.ʁa.tin/		 baratine
/ba.ʁa.tin/		 baratinons
/ba.ʁa.ti.nɔ̃/		 baratinez
/ba.ʁa.ti.ne/		 baratinent
/ba.ʁa.tin/
imperfect baratinais
/ba.ʁa.ti.nɛ/		 baratinais
/ba.ʁa.ti.nɛ/		 baratinait
/ba.ʁa.ti.nɛ/		 baratinions
/ba.ʁa.ti.njɔ̃/		 baratiniez
/ba.ʁa.ti.nje/		 baratinaient
/ba.ʁa.ti.nɛ/
past historic2 baratinai
/ba.ʁa.ti.ne/		 baratinas
/ba.ʁa.ti.na/		 baratina
/ba.ʁa.ti.na/		 baratinâmes
/ba.ʁa.ti.nam/		 baratinâtes
/ba.ʁa.ti.nat/		 baratinèrent
/ba.ʁa.ti.nɛʁ/
future baratinerai
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁe/		 baratineras
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁa/		 baratinera
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁa/		 baratinerons
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɔ̃/		 baratinerez
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁe/		 baratineront
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɔ̃/
conditional baratinerais
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɛ/		 baratinerais
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɛ/		 baratinerait
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɛ/		 baratinerions
/ba.ʁa.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/		 baratineriez
/ba.ʁa.ti.nə.ʁje/		 baratineraient
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɛ/
(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 baratine
/ba.ʁa.tin/		 baratines
/ba.ʁa.tin/		 baratine
/ba.ʁa.tin/		 baratinions
/ba.ʁa.ti.njɔ̃/		 baratiniez
/ba.ʁa.ti.nje/		 baratinent
/ba.ʁa.tin/
imperfect2 baratinasse
/ba.ʁa.ti.nas/		 baratinasses
/ba.ʁa.ti.nas/		 baratinât
/ba.ʁa.ti.na/		 baratinassions
/ba.ʁa.ti.na.sjɔ̃/		 baratinassiez
/ba.ʁa.ti.na.sje/		 baratinassent
/ba.ʁa.ti.nas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — baratine
/ba.ʁa.tin/		 — baratinons
/ba.ʁa.ti.nɔ̃/		 baratinez
/ba.ʁa.ti.ne/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 Only usable with preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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