caqueter
French
Etymology
Onomatopoeic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.k(ə).te/
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Verb
caqueter
- (ambitransitive) to cackle
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Les fautes d'orthographe s'y enlaçaient les unes aux autres, et Emma poursuivait la pensée douce qui caquetait tout au travers comme une poule à demi cachée dans une haie d'épines.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (ambitransitive) to prattle
Conjugation
With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.
Conjugation of caqueter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | caqueter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | caquetant /kak.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | caqueté /kak.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | caquette or caquète /ka.kɛt/ |
caquettes or caquètes /ka.kɛt/ |
caquette or caquète /ka.kɛt/ |
caquetons /kak.tɔ̃/ |
caquetez /kak.te/ |
caquettent or caquètent /ka.kɛt/ |
| imperfect | caquetais /kak.tɛ/ |
caquetais /kak.tɛ/ |
caquetait /kak.tɛ/ |
caquetions /ka.kə.tjɔ̃/ |
caquetiez /ka.kə.tje/ |
caquetaient /kak.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | caquetai /kak.te/ |
caquetas /kak.ta/ |
caqueta /kak.ta/ |
caquetâmes /kak.tam/ |
caquetâtes /kak.tat/ |
caquetèrent /kak.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | caquetterai or caquèterai /ka.kɛ.tʁe/ or /ka.ke.tʁe/ |
caquetteras or caquèteras /ka.kɛ.tʁa/ or /ka.ke.tʁa/ |
caquettera or caquètera /ka.kɛ.tʁa/ or /ka.ke.tʁa/ |
caquetterons or caquèterons /ka.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ka.ke.tʁɔ̃/ |
caquetterez or caquèterez /ka.kɛ.tʁe/ or /ka.ke.tʁe/ |
caquetteront or caquèteront /ka.kɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ka.ke.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | caquetterais or caquèterais /ka.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.ke.tʁɛ/ |
caquetterais or caquèterais /ka.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.ke.tʁɛ/ |
caquetterait or caquèterait /ka.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.ke.tʁɛ/ |
caquetterions or caquèterions /ka.kɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ka.ke.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
caquetteriez or caquèteriez /ka.kɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ka.ke.tə.ʁje/ |
caquetteraient or caquèteraient /ka.kɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.ke.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 | caquette or caquète /ka.kɛt/ |
caquettes or caquètes /ka.kɛt/ |
caquette or caquète /ka.kɛt/ |
caquetions /ka.kə.tjɔ̃/ |
caquetiez /ka.kə.tje/ |
caquettent or caquètent /ka.kɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | caquetasse /kak.tas/ |
caquetasses /kak.tas/ |
caquetât /kak.ta/ |
caquetassions /kak.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
caquetassiez /kak.ta.sje/ |
caquetassent /kak.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | caquette or caquète /ka.kɛt/ |
— | caquetons /kak.tɔ̃/ |
caquetez /kak.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
- caquet
- caqueteur
Further reading
- “caqueter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Middle French
Verb
caqueter
Related terms
- cacoigne
- caquenard
- caquet
- caquetement
- caqueterie
- caquetière
- caquetoire
References
- caqueter on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)