trottiner

French

Etymology

Diminutive form of trotter, with suffix -iner.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ.ti.ne/

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Verb

trottiner

1. (intransitive) to trot, to amble

Conjugation

Conjugation of trottiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	trottiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trottinant /tʁɔ.ti.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trottiné /tʁɔ.ti.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trottine /tʁɔ.tin/	trottines /tʁɔ.tin/	trottine /tʁɔ.tin/	trottinons /tʁɔ.ti.nɔ̃/	trottinez /tʁɔ.ti.ne/	trottinent /tʁɔ.tin/
	imperfect	trottinais /tʁɔ.ti.nɛ/	trottinais /tʁɔ.ti.nɛ/	trottinait /tʁɔ.ti.nɛ/	trottinions /tʁɔ.ti.njɔ̃/	trottiniez /tʁɔ.ti.nje/	trottinaient /tʁɔ.ti.nɛ/
	past historic2	trottinai /tʁɔ.ti.ne/	trottinas /tʁɔ.ti.na/	trottina /tʁɔ.ti.na/	trottinâmes /tʁɔ.ti.nam/	trottinâtes /tʁɔ.ti.nat/	trottinèrent /tʁɔ.ti.nɛʁ/
	future	trottinerai /tʁɔ.tin.ʁe/	trottineras /tʁɔ.tin.ʁa/	trottinera /tʁɔ.tin.ʁa/	trottinerons /tʁɔ.tin.ʁɔ̃/	trottinerez /tʁɔ.tin.ʁe/	trottineront /tʁɔ.tin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trottinerais /tʁɔ.tin.ʁɛ/	trottinerais /tʁɔ.tin.ʁɛ/	trottinerait /tʁɔ.tin.ʁɛ/	trottinerions /tʁɔ.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	trottineriez /tʁɔ.ti.nə.ʁje/	trottineraient /tʁɔ.tin.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	trottine /tʁɔ.tin/	trottines /tʁɔ.tin/	trottine /tʁɔ.tin/	trottinions /tʁɔ.ti.njɔ̃/	trottiniez /tʁɔ.ti.nje/	trottinent /tʁɔ.tin/
	imperfect2	trottinasse /tʁɔ.ti.nas/	trottinasses /tʁɔ.ti.nas/	trottinât /tʁɔ.ti.na/	trottinassions /tʁɔ.ti.na.sjɔ̃/	trottinassiez /tʁɔ.ti.na.sje/	trottinassent /tʁɔ.ti.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trottine /tʁɔ.tin/	—	trottinons /tʁɔ.ti.nɔ̃/	trottinez /tʁɔ.ti.ne/	—
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).

Derived terms

• trottinette

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• titreront