grelotter
French
Etymology
From grelot.
Pronunciation
Verb
grelotter
- to shiver, tremble
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Comme la salle était fraîche, elle grelottait tout en mangeant, ce qui découvrait un peu ses lèvres charnues, qu'elle avait coutume de mordillonner à ses moments de silence.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2015 January, Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex, volume 1, Éditions Grasset, →ISBN:
- Plus tard dans la nuit, quelques heures se sont écoulées, ou une minute, il ne sait pas, il grelotte de fièvre.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of grelotter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | grelotter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | grelottant /ɡʁə.lɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | grelotté /ɡʁə.lɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | grelotte /ɡʁə.lɔt/ |
grelottes /ɡʁə.lɔt/ |
grelotte /ɡʁə.lɔt/ |
grelottons /ɡʁə.lɔ.tɔ̃/ |
grelottez /ɡʁə.lɔ.te/ |
grelottent /ɡʁə.lɔt/ |
| imperfect | grelottais /ɡʁə.lɔ.tɛ/ |
grelottais /ɡʁə.lɔ.tɛ/ |
grelottait /ɡʁə.lɔ.tɛ/ |
grelottions /ɡʁə.lɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
grelottiez /ɡʁə.lɔ.tje/ |
grelottaient /ɡʁə.lɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | grelottai /ɡʁə.lɔ.te/ |
grelottas /ɡʁə.lɔ.ta/ |
grelotta /ɡʁə.lɔ.ta/ |
grelottâmes /ɡʁə.lɔ.tam/ |
grelottâtes /ɡʁə.lɔ.tat/ |
grelottèrent /ɡʁə.lɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | grelotterai /ɡʁə.lɔ.tʁe/ |
grelotteras /ɡʁə.lɔ.tʁa/ |
grelottera /ɡʁə.lɔ.tʁa/ |
grelotterons /ɡʁə.lɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
grelotterez /ɡʁə.lɔ.tʁe/ |
grelotteront /ɡʁə.lɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | grelotterais /ɡʁə.lɔ.tʁɛ/ |
grelotterais /ɡʁə.lɔ.tʁɛ/ |
grelotterait /ɡʁə.lɔ.tʁɛ/ |
grelotterions /ɡʁə.lɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
grelotteriez /ɡʁə.lɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
grelotteraient /ɡʁə.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 | grelotte /ɡʁə.lɔt/ |
grelottes /ɡʁə.lɔt/ |
grelotte /ɡʁə.lɔt/ |
grelottions /ɡʁə.lɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
grelottiez /ɡʁə.lɔ.tje/ |
grelottent /ɡʁə.lɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | grelottasse /ɡʁə.lɔ.tas/ |
grelottasses /ɡʁə.lɔ.tas/ |
grelottât /ɡʁə.lɔ.ta/ |
grelottassions /ɡʁə.lɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
grelottassiez /ɡʁə.lɔ.ta.sje/ |
grelottassent /ɡʁə.lɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | grelotte /ɡʁə.lɔt/ |
— | grelottons /ɡʁə.lɔ.tɔ̃/ |
grelottez /ɡʁə.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
- “grelotter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012