Inherited from Middle French tricoter, from Old French tricoter (“to beat with sticks”) (compare Old French tricot (“stick, cudgel”)), derivative of trique (“stick, game played with sticks”), from earlier estrique (“stick used to knock down grain”), from *estrikier, *estriquer (“to strike”), from Frankish *strīkan (“to move or pass one thing over another, strike”), from Proto-Germanic *strīkaną (“to stroke, touch”), from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to strike”). By surface analysis, trique + -oter. Cognate with Old High German strīhhan (“to smooth, stroke, spread, rub, strike”), Old English strīcan (“to stroke, pass lightly over the surface, smooth, rub, wipe, strike, go, move, run”). More at strike.
tricoter
| infinitive | simple | tricoter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tricotant /tʁi.kɔ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tricoté /tʁi.kɔ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tricote /tʁi.kɔt/ |
tricotes /tʁi.kɔt/ |
tricote /tʁi.kɔt/ |
tricotons /tʁi.kɔ.tɔ̃/ |
tricotez /tʁi.kɔ.te/ |
tricotent /tʁi.kɔt/ |
| imperfect | tricotais /tʁi.kɔ.tɛ/ |
tricotais /tʁi.kɔ.tɛ/ |
tricotait /tʁi.kɔ.tɛ/ |
tricotions /tʁi.kɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
tricotiez /tʁi.kɔ.tje/ |
tricotaient /tʁi.kɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tricotai /tʁi.kɔ.te/ |
tricotas /tʁi.kɔ.ta/ |
tricota /tʁi.kɔ.ta/ |
tricotâmes /tʁi.kɔ.tam/ |
tricotâtes /tʁi.kɔ.tat/ |
tricotèrent /tʁi.kɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | tricoterai /tʁi.kɔ.tʁe/ |
tricoteras /tʁi.kɔ.tʁa/ |
tricotera /tʁi.kɔ.tʁa/ |
tricoterons /tʁi.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
tricoterez /tʁi.kɔ.tʁe/ |
tricoteront /tʁi.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tricoterais /tʁi.kɔ.tʁɛ/ |
tricoterais /tʁi.kɔ.tʁɛ/ |
tricoterait /tʁi.kɔ.tʁɛ/ |
tricoterions /tʁi.kɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tricoteriez /tʁi.kɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
tricoteraient /tʁi.kɔ.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 | tricote /tʁi.kɔt/ |
tricotes /tʁi.kɔt/ |
tricote /tʁi.kɔt/ |
tricotions /tʁi.kɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
tricotiez /tʁi.kɔ.tje/ |
tricotent /tʁi.kɔt/ |
| imperfect2 | tricotasse /tʁi.kɔ.tas/ |
tricotasses /tʁi.kɔ.tas/ |
tricotât /tʁi.kɔ.ta/ |
tricotassions /tʁi.kɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
tricotassiez /tʁi.kɔ.ta.sje/ |
tricotassent /tʁi.kɔ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tricote /tʁi.kɔt/ |
— | tricotons /tʁi.kɔ.tɔ̃/ |
tricotez /tʁi.kɔ.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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Borrowed from French tricoteur.
tricoter m (plural tricoteri)
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) tricoter | tricoterul | (niște) tricoteri | tricoterii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) tricoter | tricoterului | (unor) tricoteri | tricoterilor |
| vocative | tricoterule | tricoterilor | ||