draguer

French

Etymology

From drague +‎ -er.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dʁa.ɡe/
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Verb

draguer

  1. (transitive) to dredge (to make a channel wider or deeper)
  2. (transitive) to dredge (to bring something underwater to surface)
  3. (transitive, colloquial, slang) to chat up (to talk to flirtatiously), to flirt, to hit on somebody
  4. (intransitive, colloquial, slang) to cruise for sexual partners

Conjugation
Conjugation of draguer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple draguer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple draguant
/dʁa.ɡɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle dragué
/dʁa.ɡe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present drague
/dʁaɡ/		 dragues
/dʁaɡ/		 drague
/dʁaɡ/		 draguons
/dʁa.ɡɔ̃/		 draguez
/dʁa.ɡe/		 draguent
/dʁaɡ/
imperfect draguais
/dʁa.ɡɛ/		 draguais
/dʁa.ɡɛ/		 draguait
/dʁa.ɡɛ/		 draguions
/dʁa.ɡjɔ̃/		 draguiez
/dʁa.ɡje/		 draguaient
/dʁa.ɡɛ/
past historic2 draguai
/dʁa.ɡe/		 draguas
/dʁa.ɡa/		 dragua
/dʁa.ɡa/		 draguâmes
/dʁa.ɡam/		 draguâtes
/dʁa.ɡat/		 draguèrent
/dʁa.ɡɛʁ/
future draguerai
/dʁa.ɡʁe/		 dragueras
/dʁa.ɡʁa/		 draguera
/dʁa.ɡʁa/		 draguerons
/dʁa.ɡʁɔ̃/		 draguerez
/dʁa.ɡʁe/		 dragueront
/dʁa.ɡʁɔ̃/
conditional draguerais
/dʁa.ɡʁɛ/		 draguerais
/dʁa.ɡʁɛ/		 draguerait
/dʁa.ɡʁɛ/		 draguerions
/dʁa.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/		 dragueriez
/dʁa.ɡə.ʁje/		 dragueraient
/dʁa.ɡʁɛ/
(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 drague
/dʁaɡ/		 dragues
/dʁaɡ/		 drague
/dʁaɡ/		 draguions
/dʁa.ɡjɔ̃/		 draguiez
/dʁa.ɡje/		 draguent
/dʁaɡ/
imperfect2 draguasse
/dʁa.ɡas/		 draguasses
/dʁa.ɡas/		 draguât
/dʁa.ɡa/		 draguassions
/dʁa.ɡa.sjɔ̃/		 draguassiez
/dʁa.ɡa.sje/		 draguassent
/dʁa.ɡas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — drague
/dʁaɡ/		 — draguons
/dʁa.ɡɔ̃/		 draguez
/dʁa.ɡe/		 —
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

Descendants
  • → Italian: dragare

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