abricoter

French

Etymology

From abricot +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.bʁi.kɔ.te/

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Verb

abricoter

1. (transitive) to glaze (a cake etc) with a thin layer of apricot preserve dissolved in water

Conjugation

Conjugation of abricoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	abricoter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	abricotant /a.bʁi.kɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		abricoté /a.bʁi.kɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	abricote /a.bʁi.kɔt/	abricotes /a.bʁi.kɔt/	abricote /a.bʁi.kɔt/	abricotons /a.bʁi.kɔ.tɔ̃/	abricotez /a.bʁi.kɔ.te/	abricotent /a.bʁi.kɔt/
	imperfect	abricotais /a.bʁi.kɔ.tɛ/	abricotais /a.bʁi.kɔ.tɛ/	abricotait /a.bʁi.kɔ.tɛ/	abricotions /a.bʁi.kɔ.tjɔ̃/	abricotiez /a.bʁi.kɔ.tje/	abricotaient /a.bʁi.kɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	abricotai /a.bʁi.kɔ.te/	abricotas /a.bʁi.kɔ.ta/	abricota /a.bʁi.kɔ.ta/	abricotâmes /a.bʁi.kɔ.tam/	abricotâtes /a.bʁi.kɔ.tat/	abricotèrent /a.bʁi.kɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	abricoterai /a.bʁi.kɔ.tʁe/	abricoteras /a.bʁi.kɔ.tʁa/	abricotera /a.bʁi.kɔ.tʁa/	abricoterons /a.bʁi.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/	abricoterez /a.bʁi.kɔ.tʁe/	abricoteront /a.bʁi.kɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	abricoterais /a.bʁi.kɔ.tʁɛ/	abricoterais /a.bʁi.kɔ.tʁɛ/	abricoterait /a.bʁi.kɔ.tʁɛ/	abricoterions /a.bʁi.kɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	abricoteriez /a.bʁi.kɔ.tə.ʁje/	abricoteraient /a.bʁi.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	abricote /a.bʁi.kɔt/	abricotes /a.bʁi.kɔt/	abricote /a.bʁi.kɔt/	abricotions /a.bʁi.kɔ.tjɔ̃/	abricotiez /a.bʁi.kɔ.tje/	abricotent /a.bʁi.kɔt/
	imperfect2	abricotasse /a.bʁi.kɔ.tas/	abricotasses /a.bʁi.kɔ.tas/	abricotât /a.bʁi.kɔ.ta/	abricotassions /a.bʁi.kɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	abricotassiez /a.bʁi.kɔ.ta.sje/	abricotassent /a.bʁi.kɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	abricote /a.bʁi.kɔt/	—	abricotons /a.bʁi.kɔ.tɔ̃/	abricotez /a.bʁi.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: 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).

Further reading

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