frotter

French

Etymology

Probably from Latin frictāre , present active infinitive of frictō, frequentative of fricō through its past participle frictus (“rubbed”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fʁɔ.te/
  • Audio(file)

Verb

frotter

  1. to rub, chafe
  2. to scrub, scour
  3. to scrape
  4. to fritter
  5. to stone
  6. (figuratively, informal, takes a reflexive pronoun, se frotter) to rub (someone) in the wrong way, to get on (someone)'s bad side
    Ne te frotte pas à elle! Elle a beaucoup d'ennuis.
    Don't get on her bad side! She has a lot of issues.

Conjugation
Conjugation of frotter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle frottant
/fʁɔ.tɑ̃/
past participle frotté
/fʁɔ.te/
infinitive
simple frotter
compound avoir + past participle
gerund1
simple frottant
/fʁɔ.tɑ̃/
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 frotte
/fʁɔt/		 frottes
/fʁɔt/		 frotte
/fʁɔt/		 frottons
/fʁɔ.tɔ̃/		 frottez
/fʁɔ.te/		 frottent
/fʁɔt/
imperfect frottais
/fʁɔ.tɛ/		 frottais
/fʁɔ.tɛ/		 frottait
/fʁɔ.tɛ/		 frottions
/fʁɔ.tjɔ̃/		 frottiez
/fʁɔ.tje/		 frottaient
/fʁɔ.tɛ/
past historic2 frottai
/fʁɔ.te/		 frottas
/fʁɔ.ta/		 frotta
/fʁɔ.ta/		 frottâmes
/fʁɔ.tam/		 frottâtes
/fʁɔ.tat/		 frottèrent
/fʁɔ.tɛʁ/
future frotterai
/fʁɔ.tʁe/		 frotteras
/fʁɔ.tʁa/		 frottera
/fʁɔ.tʁa/		 frotterons
/fʁɔ.tʁɔ̃/		 frotterez
/fʁɔ.tʁe/		 frotteront
/fʁɔ.tʁɔ̃/
conditional frotterais
/fʁɔ.tʁɛ/		 frotterais
/fʁɔ.tʁɛ/		 frotterait
/fʁɔ.tʁɛ/		 frotterions
/fʁɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/		 frotteriez
/fʁɔ.tə.ʁje/		 frotteraient
/fʁɔ.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 frotte
/fʁɔt/		 frottes
/fʁɔt/		 frotte
/fʁɔt/		 frottions
/fʁɔ.tjɔ̃/		 frottiez
/fʁɔ.tje/		 frottent
/fʁɔt/
imperfect2 frottasse
/fʁɔ.tas/		 frottasses
/fʁɔ.tas/		 frottât
/fʁɔ.ta/		 frottassions
/fʁɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/		 frottassiez
/fʁɔ.ta.sje/		 frottassent
/fʁɔ.tas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — frotte
/fʁɔt/		 — frottons
/fʁɔ.tɔ̃/		 frottez
/fʁɔ.te/		 —
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).

Further reading

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably from Latin frictāre, present active infinitive of frictō, frequentative of fricō through its past participle frictus (“rubbed”).

Pronunciation
  • Audio (Jersey)(file)

Verb

frotter

  1. (Jersey) to rub
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