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gigoter
gigoter
French
Verb
gigoter
- (transitive, intransitive) to wriggle (about)
 
Conjugation
  Conjugation of gigoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | gigoter | avoir gigoté | |||||
| gerund | en gigotant | en ayant gigoté | |||||
| present participle |  gigotant /ʒi.ɡɔ.tɑ̃/  | 
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| past participle |  gigoté /ʒi.ɡɔ.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 |  gigote /ʒi.ɡɔt/  | 
 gigotes /ʒi.ɡɔt/  | 
 gigote /ʒi.ɡɔt/  | 
 gigotons /ʒi.ɡɔ.tɔ̃/  | 
 gigotez /ʒi.ɡɔ.te/  | 
 gigotent /ʒi.ɡɔt/  | 
| imperfect |  gigotais /ʒi.ɡɔ.tɛ/  | 
 gigotais /ʒi.ɡɔ.tɛ/  | 
 gigotait /ʒi.ɡɔ.tɛ/  | 
 gigotions /ʒi.ɡɔ.tjɔ̃/  | 
 gigotiez /ʒi.ɡɔ.tje/  | 
 gigotaient /ʒi.ɡɔ.tɛ/  | 
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| past historic1 |  gigotai /ʒi.ɡɔ.te/  | 
gigotas /ʒi.ɡɔ.ta/  | 
gigota /ʒi.ɡɔ.ta/  | 
gigotâmes /ʒi.ɡɔ.tam/  | 
gigotâtes /ʒi.ɡɔ.tat/  | 
gigotèrent /ʒi.ɡɔ.tɛʁ/  | 
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| future |  gigoterai /ʒi.ɡɔ.tʁe/  | 
 gigoteras /ʒi.ɡɔ.tʁa/  | 
 gigotera /ʒi.ɡɔ.tʁa/  | 
 gigoterons /ʒi.ɡɔ.tʁɔ̃/  | 
 gigoterez /ʒi.ɡɔ.tʁe/  | 
 gigoteront /ʒi.ɡɔ.tʁɔ̃/  | 
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| conditional |  gigoterais /ʒi.ɡɔ.tʁɛ/  | 
 gigoterais /ʒi.ɡɔ.tʁɛ/  | 
 gigoterait /ʒi.ɡɔ.tʁɛ/  | 
 gigoterions /ʒi.ɡɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/  | 
 gigoteriez /ʒi.ɡɔ.tə.ʁje/  | 
 gigoteraient /ʒi.ɡɔ.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 |  gigote /ʒi.ɡɔt/  | 
 gigotes /ʒi.ɡɔt/  | 
 gigote /ʒi.ɡɔt/  | 
 gigotions /ʒi.ɡɔ.tjɔ̃/  | 
 gigotiez /ʒi.ɡɔ.tje/  | 
 gigotent /ʒi.ɡɔt/  | 
| imperfect1 | 
gigotasse /ʒi.ɡɔ.tas/  | 
gigotasses /ʒi.ɡɔ.tas/  | 
gigotât /ʒi.ɡɔ.ta/  | 
gigotassions /ʒi.ɡɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/  | 
gigotassiez /ʒi.ɡɔ.ta.sje/  | 
gigotassent /ʒi.ɡɔ.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 | – | |
| — |  gigote /ʒi.ɡɔt/  | 
— |  gigotons /ʒi.ɡɔ.tɔ̃/  | 
 gigotez /ʒi.ɡɔ.te/  | 
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