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trottiner

French, verb/tʁɔ.ti.ne/

trottiner is spelled T-R-O-T-T-I-N-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 129,327th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trottiner is a French verb meaning “to trot, to amble” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aller à un trot raccourci”.

What does trottiner mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to trot, to amble

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

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Aller à un trot raccourci. 2. Marcher d’un petit pas accéléré.

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 trottiner

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • trottinant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • trottiné participle past
  • trottine first-person indicative present
  • trottines indicative present second-person
  • trottinons first-person indicative plural
  • trottinez indicative plural present
  • trottinent indicative plural present
  • trottinais first-person imperfect indicative
  • trottinait imperfect indicative singular
  • trottinions first-person imperfect indicative
  • trottiniez imperfect indicative plural
  • trottinaient imperfect indicative plural
  • trottinai first-person historic indicative
  • trottinas historic indicative past
  • trottina historic indicative past
  • trottinâmes first-person historic indicative

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

How do you pronounce trottiner?

  • /tʁɔ.ti.ne/
  • \tʁɔ.ti.ne\

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

English words that translate to trottiner

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is trottiner in French?

trottiner appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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