écoutant
Écoutant is the present participle of écouter, the French verb meaning “to listen.” As a participle, it conveys the action of listening and is used in participial phrases or, more rarely, as a descriptive adjective. The base form is écoutant; it agrees in gender and number with the noun when used adjectivally: écoutante (f. sg), écoutants (m. pl), écoutantes (f. pl).
In usage, écoutant typically introduces a concurrent action or describes a manner in which something is done.
Grammatically, écoutant is the form used for the present participle and can function to modify a subject
See also: écouter, auscultation, present participle. The term is primarily found in formal or literary French,