pateter
French, verb\pa.tə.te\
pateter is a French verb meaning “to dawdle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Lambiner, s’occuper longuement de minuties”.
What does pateter mean in English?
verb
- 1
Switzerlandto dawdle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Lambiner, s’occuper longuement de minuties.
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 pateter
- avoir pateté infinitive past
- en patetant gerund present
- en ayant pateté gerund past
- patetant participle present
- pateté participle past
- je patète indicative present
- tu patètes indicative present
- il/elle/on patète indicative present
- nous patetons indicative present
- vous patetez indicative present
- ils/elles patètent indicative present
- j’ai pateté indicative past multiword-construction
- tu as pateté indicative past multiword-construction
- il/elle/on a pateté indicative past multiword-construction
- nous avons pateté indicative past multiword-construction
- vous avez pateté indicative past multiword-construction
- ils/elles ont pateté indicative past multiword-construction
- je patetais indicative imperfect
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pateter?
- \pa.tə.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pateter
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.