flirter
English
Etymology
From flirt + -er. Compare Old English fleardere (“one who acts wantonly or with folly”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
flirter (plural flirters)
- One who flirts.
- 1988, Glamour, volume 86, numbers 7-9, page 26:
- I just ended a relationship with a compulsive flirter, after realizing that no one deserved to be treated as I was.
Anagrams
French
Alternative forms
- fleureter, fleurter
Etymology
Borrowed from English flirt. Forms with -eu- may have arisen by influence of fleur (“flower”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /flœʁ.te/
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Verb
flirter
- (intransitive) to flirt
- Hyponym: see courir les filles
Conjugation
Conjugation of flirter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | flirter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | flirtant /flœʁ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | flirté /flœʁ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | flirte /flœʁt/ |
flirtes /flœʁt/ |
flirte /flœʁt/ |
flirtons /flœʁ.tɔ̃/ |
flirtez /flœʁ.te/ |
flirtent /flœʁt/ |
| imperfect | flirtais /flœʁ.tɛ/ |
flirtais /flœʁ.tɛ/ |
flirtait /flœʁ.tɛ/ |
flirtions /flœʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
flirtiez /flœʁ.tje/ |
flirtaient /flœʁ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | flirtai /flœʁ.te/ |
flirtas /flœʁ.ta/ |
flirta /flœʁ.ta/ |
flirtâmes /flœʁ.tam/ |
flirtâtes /flœʁ.tat/ |
flirtèrent /flœʁ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | flirterai /flœʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
flirteras /flœʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
flirtera /flœʁ.tə.ʁa/ |
flirterons /flœʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
flirterez /flœʁ.tə.ʁe/ |
flirteront /flœʁ.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | flirterais /flœʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
flirterais /flœʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
flirterait /flœʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ |
flirterions /flœʁ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
flirteriez /flœʁ.tə.ʁje/ |
flirteraient /flœʁ.tə.ʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | flirte /flœʁt/ |
flirtes /flœʁt/ |
flirte /flœʁt/ |
flirtions /flœʁ.tjɔ̃/ |
flirtiez /flœʁ.tje/ |
flirtent /flœʁt/ |
| imperfect2 | flirtasse /flœʁ.tas/ |
flirtasses /flœʁ.tas/ |
flirtât /flœʁ.ta/ |
flirtassions /flœʁ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
flirtassiez /flœʁ.ta.sje/ |
flirtassent /flœʁ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | flirte /flœʁt/ |
— | flirtons /flœʁ.tɔ̃/ |
flirtez /flœʁ.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
See also
Further reading
- “flirter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.