dorloter
French
Etymology
From Old French dorelot + -er.
Pronunciation
Verb
dorloter
- to pamper, cosset
- Synonym: choyer
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Il pouvait changer maintenant les heures de ses repas, rentrer ou sortir sans donner de raisons, et, lorsqu'il était bien fatigué, s'étendre de ses quatre membres, tout en large, dans son lit. Donc, il se choya, se dorlota et accepta les consolations qu'on lui donnait.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of dorloter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | dorloter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | dorlotant /dɔʁ.lɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | dorloté /dɔʁ.lɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | dorlote /dɔʁ.lɔt/ |
dorlotes /dɔʁ.lɔt/ |
dorlote /dɔʁ.lɔt/ |
dorlotons /dɔʁ.lɔ.tɔ̃/ |
dorlotez /dɔʁ.lɔ.te/ |
dorlotent /dɔʁ.lɔt/ |
| imperfect | dorlotais /dɔʁ.lɔ.tɛ/ |
dorlotais /dɔʁ.lɔ.tɛ/ |
dorlotait /dɔʁ.lɔ.tɛ/ |
dorlotions /dɔʁ.lɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
dorlotiez /dɔʁ.lɔ.tje/ |
dorlotaient /dɔʁ.lɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | dorlotai /dɔʁ.lɔ.te/ |
dorlotas /dɔʁ.lɔ.ta/ |
dorlota /dɔʁ.lɔ.ta/ |
dorlotâmes /dɔʁ.lɔ.tam/ |
dorlotâtes /dɔʁ.lɔ.tat/ |
dorlotèrent /dɔʁ.lɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | dorloterai /dɔʁ.lɔ.tʁe/ |
dorloteras /dɔʁ.lɔ.tʁa/ |
dorlotera /dɔʁ.lɔ.tʁa/ |
dorloterons /dɔʁ.lɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
dorloterez /dɔʁ.lɔ.tʁe/ |
dorloteront /dɔʁ.lɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | dorloterais /dɔʁ.lɔ.tʁɛ/ |
dorloterais /dɔʁ.lɔ.tʁɛ/ |
dorloterait /dɔʁ.lɔ.tʁɛ/ |
dorloterions /dɔʁ.lɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
dorloteriez /dɔʁ.lɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
dorloteraient /dɔʁ.lɔ.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 | dorlote /dɔʁ.lɔt/ |
dorlotes /dɔʁ.lɔt/ |
dorlote /dɔʁ.lɔt/ |
dorlotions /dɔʁ.lɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
dorlotiez /dɔʁ.lɔ.tje/ |
dorlotent /dɔʁ.lɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | dorlotasse /dɔʁ.lɔ.tas/ |
dorlotasses /dɔʁ.lɔ.tas/ |
dorlotât /dɔʁ.lɔ.ta/ |
dorlotassions /dɔʁ.lɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
dorlotassiez /dɔʁ.lɔ.ta.sje/ |
dorlotassent /dɔʁ.lɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | dorlote /dɔʁ.lɔt/ |
— | dorlotons /dɔʁ.lɔ.tɔ̃/ |
dorlotez /dɔʁ.lɔ.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “dorloter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012