riboter

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French ribaud (“scoundrel”) +‎ -er, from riber (“to be licentious”), from Frankish *rīban (“to copulate, be in heat”, literally “to rub”), from Proto-Germanic *wrībaną (“to turn, twist, writhe”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

riboter

1. to drink or eat to excess
2. to churn (cream into butter)

Conjugation

Conjugation of riboter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	riboter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ribotant /ʁi.bɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		riboté /ʁi.bɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ribote /ʁi.bɔt/	ribotes /ʁi.bɔt/	ribote /ʁi.bɔt/	ribotons /ʁi.bɔ.tɔ̃/	ribotez /ʁi.bɔ.te/	ribotent /ʁi.bɔt/
	imperfect	ribotais /ʁi.bɔ.tɛ/	ribotais /ʁi.bɔ.tɛ/	ribotait /ʁi.bɔ.tɛ/	ribotions /ʁi.bɔ.tjɔ̃/	ribotiez /ʁi.bɔ.tje/	ribotaient /ʁi.bɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	ribotai /ʁi.bɔ.te/	ribotas /ʁi.bɔ.ta/	ribota /ʁi.bɔ.ta/	ribotâmes /ʁi.bɔ.tam/	ribotâtes /ʁi.bɔ.tat/	ribotèrent /ʁi.bɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	riboterai /ʁi.bɔ.tʁe/	riboteras /ʁi.bɔ.tʁa/	ribotera /ʁi.bɔ.tʁa/	riboterons /ʁi.bɔ.tʁɔ̃/	riboterez /ʁi.bɔ.tʁe/	riboteront /ʁi.bɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	riboterais /ʁi.bɔ.tʁɛ/	riboterais /ʁi.bɔ.tʁɛ/	riboterait /ʁi.bɔ.tʁɛ/	riboterions /ʁi.bɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	riboteriez /ʁi.bɔ.tə.ʁje/	riboteraient /ʁi.bɔ.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	ribote /ʁi.bɔt/	ribotes /ʁi.bɔt/	ribote /ʁi.bɔt/	ribotions /ʁi.bɔ.tjɔ̃/	ribotiez /ʁi.bɔ.tje/	ribotent /ʁi.bɔt/
	imperfect2	ribotasse /ʁi.bɔ.tas/	ribotasses /ʁi.bɔ.tas/	ribotât /ʁi.bɔ.ta/	ribotassions /ʁi.bɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	ribotassiez /ʁi.bɔ.ta.sje/	ribotassent /ʁi.bɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ribote /ʁi.bɔt/	—	ribotons /ʁi.bɔ.tɔ̃/	ribotez /ʁi.bɔ.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).

Derived terms

• riboteur

Further reading

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

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Etymology

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Verb

riboter (gerund ribot'tie)

1. (Jersey) to booze

Derived terms

• riboteux (“boozer”)