baratiner

French

Etymology

From baratin +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ba.ʁa.ti.ne/
  • (file)

Verb

baratiner

  1. (transitive) to chat up, sweet-talk (engage in small talk in order to seduce or convince)
    • 1995, Georges Piroué, Le réduit national:
      Il baratine une des serveuses. Comme elle parle allemand, lui français, les mots lui sont de peu de secours et c’est sans doute la raison pour laquelle il se tortille.
      He chats up one of the waitresses. As she speaks German, he in French, the words are of little help to him and that is probably why he struggles.
    • 1999, Anna Gavalda, “Ambre”, in Je voudrais que quelqu'un m'attende quelque part, →ISBN:
      Au début j’ai bien essayé de baratiner Ambre et puis quand j’ai compris que j’étais trop parti pour la baiser convenablement, j’ai laissé tomber.
      Initially I tried my best to sweet-talk Ambre but then realized I got too wrecked to screw her properly, and let go.
  2. (intransitive) to bullshit

Conjugation
Conjugation of baratiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple baratiner
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple baratinant
/ba.ʁa.ti.nɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle baratiné
/ba.ʁa.ti.ne/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present baratine
/ba.ʁa.tin/		 baratines
/ba.ʁa.tin/		 baratine
/ba.ʁa.tin/		 baratinons
/ba.ʁa.ti.nɔ̃/		 baratinez
/ba.ʁa.ti.ne/		 baratinent
/ba.ʁa.tin/
imperfect baratinais
/ba.ʁa.ti.nɛ/		 baratinais
/ba.ʁa.ti.nɛ/		 baratinait
/ba.ʁa.ti.nɛ/		 baratinions
/ba.ʁa.ti.njɔ̃/		 baratiniez
/ba.ʁa.ti.nje/		 baratinaient
/ba.ʁa.ti.nɛ/
past historic2 baratinai
/ba.ʁa.ti.ne/		 baratinas
/ba.ʁa.ti.na/		 baratina
/ba.ʁa.ti.na/		 baratinâmes
/ba.ʁa.ti.nam/		 baratinâtes
/ba.ʁa.ti.nat/		 baratinèrent
/ba.ʁa.ti.nɛʁ/
future baratinerai
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁe/		 baratineras
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁa/		 baratinera
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁa/		 baratinerons
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɔ̃/		 baratinerez
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁe/		 baratineront
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɔ̃/
conditional baratinerais
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɛ/		 baratinerais
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɛ/		 baratinerait
/ba.ʁa.tin.ʁɛ/		 baratinerions
/ba.ʁa.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/		 baratineriez
/ba.ʁa.ti.nə.ʁje/		 baratineraient
/ba.ʁa.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 baratine
/ba.ʁa.tin/		 baratines
/ba.ʁa.tin/		 baratine
/ba.ʁa.tin/		 baratinions
/ba.ʁa.ti.njɔ̃/		 baratiniez
/ba.ʁa.ti.nje/		 baratinent
/ba.ʁa.tin/
imperfect2 baratinasse
/ba.ʁa.ti.nas/		 baratinasses
/ba.ʁa.ti.nas/		 baratinât
/ba.ʁa.ti.na/		 baratinassions
/ba.ʁa.ti.na.sjɔ̃/		 baratinassiez
/ba.ʁa.ti.na.sje/		 baratinassent
/ba.ʁa.ti.nas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — baratine
/ba.ʁa.tin/		 — baratinons
/ba.ʁa.ti.nɔ̃/		 baratinez
/ba.ʁa.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).

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