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tutoyering

tutoyering is the present participle and gerund of tutoyer.

Meaning of tutoyer

Verb

tutoyer (third-person singular simple present tutoyers, present participle tutoyering, simple past and past participle tutoyered)

  1. (transitive) To address (someone) in French using the familiar second-person pronoun tu; to thou.
    • As I had begged Goethe to tutoyer me, he sent me a message to say, I must really remain more than the two days I had named, otherwise he should never get into the way of doing so.1862, The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, volume 115, page 132
    Synonyms:
    tutoy

Questions about tutoyering

What is tutoyering the present participle and gerund of?
Tutoyering is the present participle and gerund of tutoyer.

Words near tutoyering in the dictionary

  1. tutovka
  2. tutoy
  3. tutoyed
  4. tutoyer
  5. tutoyered
  6. tutoyering
  7. tutoyers
  8. tutoying
  9. tutoys
  10. tutress
  11. tutresses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tutoyering (page history and authors); tutoyer (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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