botter
See also: Botter
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Noun
botter (plural botters)
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
Noun
botter (plural botters, diminutive bottertjie)
- (uncountable) butter; a soft, fatty foodstuff made from the cream of milk
- butter type
- Ons het 'n klomp gegeurde botters beskikbaar.
- We have a lot of flavoured butter [types]/butters available.
- (chemistry, dated) butter; any specific soft substance
Derived terms
- bebotter
- kookbotter
- plaasbotter
Verb
botter (present botter, present participle botterende, past participle gebotter)
Etymology 2
Botter (Dutch fishing vessel).
Noun
botter (plural botters, diminutive bottertjie)
- a type of Dutch fishing vessel with a characteristic hull
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔ.te/
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Verb
botter
- to kick
- (slang) to please, to like
- Ça te botterait d'aller au ciné?
- Would you like to go the cinema?
Usage notes
In the sense please it functions syntactically like plaire, viz. it takes an indirect object and may be translated into English as like, exchanging the subject and object.
Conjugation
Conjugation of botter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | botter | avoir botté | |||||
| gerund | en bottant | en ayant botté | |||||
| present participle | bottant /bɔ.tɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | botté /bɔ.te/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | botte /bɔt/ |
bottes /bɔt/ |
botte /bɔt/ |
bottons /bɔ.tɔ̃/ |
bottez /bɔ.te/ |
bottent /bɔt/ |
| imperfect | bottais /bɔ.tɛ/ |
bottais /bɔ.tɛ/ |
bottait /bɔ.tɛ/ |
bottions /bɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
bottiez /bɔ.tje/ |
bottaient /bɔ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | bottai /bɔ.te/ |
bottas /bɔ.ta/ |
botta /bɔ.ta/ |
bottâmes /bɔ.tam/ |
bottâtes /bɔ.tat/ |
bottèrent /bɔ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | botterai /bɔ.tʁe/ |
botteras /bɔ.tʁa/ |
bottera /bɔ.tʁa/ |
botterons /bɔ.tʁɔ̃/ |
botterez /bɔ.tʁe/ |
botteront /bɔ.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | botterais /bɔ.tʁɛ/ |
botterais /bɔ.tʁɛ/ |
botterait /bɔ.tʁɛ/ |
botterions /bɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
botteriez /bɔ.tə.ʁje/ |
botteraient /bɔ.tʁɛ/ | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | botte /bɔt/ |
bottes /bɔt/ |
botte /bɔt/ |
bottions /bɔ.tjɔ̃/ |
bottiez /bɔ.tje/ |
bottent /bɔt/ |
| imperfect1 | bottasse /bɔ.tas/ |
bottasses /bɔ.tas/ |
bottât /bɔ.ta/ |
bottassions /bɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
bottassiez /bɔ.ta.sje/ |
bottassent /bɔ.tas/ | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | botte /bɔt/ |
— | bottons /bɔ.tɔ̃/ |
bottez /bɔ.te/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Synonyms
- (please): plaire
Derived terms
Further reading
- “botter” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
Verb
botter
Papiamentu
Noun
botter
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