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farter

French, verb/faʁ.te/

farter is a French verb meaning “to wax skis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enduire (des skis, en particulier) de fart”.

What does farter mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to wax skis

  2. 2

    informal greeting, made popular by movie Brice de Nice

    Ça farte ?

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Enduire (des skis, en particulier) de fart. 2. Aller, pour prendre des nouvelles. Popularisé par le film Brice de Nice (2005), qui met en scène un surfeur adulescent.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of farter

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • fartant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • farté participle past
  • farte first-person indicative present
  • fartes indicative present second-person
  • fartons first-person indicative plural
  • fartez indicative plural present
  • fartent indicative plural present
  • fartais first-person imperfect indicative
  • fartait imperfect indicative singular
  • fartions first-person imperfect indicative
  • fartiez imperfect indicative plural
  • fartaient imperfect indicative plural
  • fartai first-person historic indicative
  • fartas historic indicative past
  • farta historic indicative past
  • fartâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce farter?

  • /faʁ.te/
  • \faʁ.te\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.