draguer

French

Etymology

From Middle French dragger (“to dredge”), equivalent to 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

• dragage
• dragueur

Descendants

• → Italian: dragare

Further reading

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