tartiner

French

Etymology

From tartine +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taʁ.ti.ne/

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Verb

tartiner

1. (transitive) to spread (on bread, etc.)

   pâte à tartiner ― spread (literally, “paste to spread”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of tartiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tartiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tartinant /taʁ.ti.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tartiné /taʁ.ti.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tartine /taʁ.tin/	tartines /taʁ.tin/	tartine /taʁ.tin/	tartinons /taʁ.ti.nɔ̃/	tartinez /taʁ.ti.ne/	tartinent /taʁ.tin/
	imperfect	tartinais /taʁ.ti.nɛ/	tartinais /taʁ.ti.nɛ/	tartinait /taʁ.ti.nɛ/	tartinions /taʁ.ti.njɔ̃/	tartiniez /taʁ.ti.nje/	tartinaient /taʁ.ti.nɛ/
	past historic2	tartinai /taʁ.ti.ne/	tartinas /taʁ.ti.na/	tartina /taʁ.ti.na/	tartinâmes /taʁ.ti.nam/	tartinâtes /taʁ.ti.nat/	tartinèrent /taʁ.ti.nɛʁ/
	future	tartinerai /taʁ.tin.ʁe/	tartineras /taʁ.tin.ʁa/	tartinera /taʁ.tin.ʁa/	tartinerons /taʁ.tin.ʁɔ̃/	tartinerez /taʁ.tin.ʁe/	tartineront /taʁ.tin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tartinerais /taʁ.tin.ʁɛ/	tartinerais /taʁ.tin.ʁɛ/	tartinerait /taʁ.tin.ʁɛ/	tartinerions /taʁ.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	tartineriez /taʁ.ti.nə.ʁje/	tartineraient /taʁ.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	tartine /taʁ.tin/	tartines /taʁ.tin/	tartine /taʁ.tin/	tartinions /taʁ.ti.njɔ̃/	tartiniez /taʁ.ti.nje/	tartinent /taʁ.tin/
	imperfect2	tartinasse /taʁ.ti.nas/	tartinasses /taʁ.ti.nas/	tartinât /taʁ.ti.na/	tartinassions /taʁ.ti.na.sjɔ̃/	tartinassiez /taʁ.ti.na.sje/	tartinassent /taʁ.ti.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tartine /taʁ.tin/	—	tartinons /taʁ.ti.nɔ̃/	tartinez /taʁ.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).

Further reading

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