doigter

French

Etymology

From doigt +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dwa.te/

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• Homophones: doigté, doigtez

Verb

doigter

1. (transitive, music) to finger, to put fingerings on a music sheet
2. (transitive, sex) to finger, to flick off

Conjugation

Conjugation of doigter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	doigter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	doigtant /dwa.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		doigté /dwa.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	doigte /dwat/	doigtes /dwat/	doigte /dwat/	doigtons /dwa.tɔ̃/	doigtez /dwa.te/	doigtent /dwat/
	imperfect	doigtais /dwa.tɛ/	doigtais /dwa.tɛ/	doigtait /dwa.tɛ/	doigtions /dwa.tjɔ̃/	doigtiez /dwa.tje/	doigtaient /dwa.tɛ/
	past historic2	doigtai /dwa.te/	doigtas /dwa.ta/	doigta /dwa.ta/	doigtâmes /dwa.tam/	doigtâtes /dwa.tat/	doigtèrent /dwa.tɛʁ/
	future	doigterai /dwa.tʁe/	doigteras /dwa.tʁa/	doigtera /dwa.tʁa/	doigterons /dwa.tʁɔ̃/	doigterez /dwa.tʁe/	doigteront /dwa.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	doigterais /dwa.tʁɛ/	doigterais /dwa.tʁɛ/	doigterait /dwa.tʁɛ/	doigterions /dwa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	doigteriez /dwa.tə.ʁje/	doigteraient /dwa.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	doigte /dwat/	doigtes /dwat/	doigte /dwat/	doigtions /dwa.tjɔ̃/	doigtiez /dwa.tje/	doigtent /dwat/
	imperfect2	doigtasse /dwa.tas/	doigtasses /dwa.tas/	doigtât /dwa.ta/	doigtassions /dwa.ta.sjɔ̃/	doigtassiez /dwa.ta.sje/	doigtassent /dwa.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	doigte /dwat/	—	doigtons /dwa.tɔ̃/	doigtez /dwa.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Noun

doigter m (plural doigters)

1. (music) fingering

Further reading

• “doigter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.