fourmiller
French
Etymology
From Old French formiier (with the suffix -iller, from Latin -iculāre), from Latin formīcāre, present active infinitive of formīcō. Cf. also Italian formicolare, Spanish hormiguear.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fuʁ.mi.je/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -e
- Homophones: fourmillai, fourmillé, fourmillée, fourmillées, fourmillés, fourmillez
Verb
fourmiller
- to swarm, to be full of
- 1877, Maurice Rollinat, “Le Champ de chardons”, in Dans les brandes, poèmes et rondels:
- Le champ fourmille de chardons : / Quel paradis pour le vieil âne !
- The field is swarming with thistles: / What a paradise for the old donkey!
-
- to tingle
Conjugation
Conjugation of fourmiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fourmiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fourmillant /fuʁ.mi.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fourmillé /fuʁ.mi.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | fourmille /fuʁ.mij/ | fourmilles /fuʁ.mij/ | fourmille /fuʁ.mij/ | fourmillons /fuʁ.mi.jɔ̃/ | fourmillez /fuʁ.mi.je/ | fourmillent /fuʁ.mij/ |
| imperfect | fourmillais /fuʁ.mi.jɛ/ | fourmillais /fuʁ.mi.jɛ/ | fourmillait /fuʁ.mi.jɛ/ | fourmillions /fuʁ.mij.jɔ̃/ | fourmilliez /fuʁ.mij.je/ | fourmillaient /fuʁ.mi.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fourmillai /fuʁ.mi.je/ | fourmillas /fuʁ.mi.ja/ | fourmilla /fuʁ.mi.ja/ | fourmillâmes /fuʁ.mi.jam/ | fourmillâtes /fuʁ.mi.jat/ | fourmillèrent /fuʁ.mi.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | fourmillerai /fuʁ.mij.ʁe/ | fourmilleras /fuʁ.mij.ʁa/ | fourmillera /fuʁ.mij.ʁa/ | fourmillerons /fuʁ.mij.ʁɔ̃/ | fourmillerez /fuʁ.mij.ʁe/ | fourmilleront /fuʁ.mij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fourmillerais /fuʁ.mij.ʁɛ/ | fourmillerais /fuʁ.mij.ʁɛ/ | fourmillerait /fuʁ.mij.ʁɛ/ | fourmillerions /fuʁ.mi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ | fourmilleriez /fuʁ.mi.jə.ʁje/ | fourmilleraient /fuʁ.mij.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) | present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | fourmille /fuʁ.mij/ | fourmilles /fuʁ.mij/ | fourmille /fuʁ.mij/ | fourmillions /fuʁ.mij.jɔ̃/ | fourmilliez /fuʁ.mij.je/ | fourmillent /fuʁ.mij/ |
| imperfect2 | fourmillasse /fuʁ.mi.jas/ | fourmillasses /fuʁ.mi.jas/ | fourmillât /fuʁ.mi.ja/ | fourmillassions /fuʁ.mi.ja.sjɔ̃/ | fourmillassiez /fuʁ.mi.ja.sje/ | fourmillassent /fuʁ.mi.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fourmille /fuʁ.mij/ | — | fourmillons /fuʁ.mi.jɔ̃/ | fourmillez /fuʁ.mi.je/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
- fourmi
- fourmilière
- fourmillant
- fourmillement
Further reading
- “fourmiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.