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frotter
frotter
French
Verb
frotter
- to rub, chafe
- to scrub, scour
- to scrape
- to fritter
- to stone
- (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.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- Ne te frotte pas à elle! Elle a beaucoup d'ennuis.
Conjugation
Conjugation of frotter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | frotter | avoir frotté | |||||
| gerund | en frottant | en ayant frotté | |||||
| present participle | frottant /fʁɔ.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | frotté /fʁɔ.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | frottai /fʁɔ.te/ |
frottas /fʁɔ.ta/ |
frotta /fʁɔ.ta/ |
frottâmes /fʁɔ.tam/ |
frottâtes /fʁɔ.tat/ |
frottèrent /fʁɔ.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | frotterai /fʁɔ.tʁe/ |
frotteras /fʁɔ.tʁa/ |
frottera /fʁɔ.tʁa/ |
frotterons /fʁɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
frotterez /fʁɔ.tʁe/ |
frotteront /fʁɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | frotterais /fʁɔ.tʁɛ/ |
frotterais /fʁɔ.tʁɛ/ |
frotterait /fʁɔ.tʁɛ/ |
frotterions /fʁɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
frotteriez /fʁɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
frotteraient /fʁɔ.tʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | frotte /fʁɔt/ |
frottes /fʁɔt/ |
frotte /fʁɔt/ |
frottions /fʁɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
frottiez /fʁɔ.tje/ |
frottent /fʁɔt/ |
| imperfect1 |
frottasse /fʁɔ.tas/ |
frottasses /fʁɔ.tas/ |
frottât /fʁɔ.ta/ |
frottassions /fʁɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
frottassiez /fʁɔ.ta.sje/ |
frottassent /fʁɔ.tas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | frotte /fʁɔt/ |
— | frottons /fʁɔ.tɔ̃/ |
frottez /fʁɔ.te/ |
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