rouscailler
French
Etymology
rousser + Old French cailler (“to chat”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁus.ka.je/
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Verb
rouscailler
- (intransitive, colloquial) to grumble
- (intransitive, slang) to chat, rap
- 1829, Victor Hugo, Le dernier jour d'un condamné, V:
- Ils m'apprennent à parler argot, à rouscailler bigorne, comme ils disent.
- They're teaching me to speak slang – to rap the lingo, as they put it.
- 1829, Victor Hugo, Le dernier jour d'un condamné, V:
Conjugation
Conjugation of rouscailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rouscailler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rouscaillant /ʁus.ka.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rouscaillé /ʁus.ka.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | rouscaille /ʁus.kaj/ | rouscailles /ʁus.kaj/ | rouscaille /ʁus.kaj/ | rouscaillons /ʁus.ka.jɔ̃/ | rouscaillez /ʁus.ka.je/ | rouscaillent /ʁus.kaj/ |
| imperfect | rouscaillais /ʁus.ka.jɛ/ | rouscaillais /ʁus.ka.jɛ/ | rouscaillait /ʁus.ka.jɛ/ | rouscaillions /ʁus.kaj.jɔ̃/ | rouscailliez /ʁus.kaj.je/ | rouscaillaient /ʁus.ka.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rouscaillai /ʁus.ka.je/ | rouscaillas /ʁus.ka.ja/ | rouscailla /ʁus.ka.ja/ | rouscaillâmes /ʁus.ka.jam/ | rouscaillâtes /ʁus.ka.jat/ | rouscaillèrent /ʁus.ka.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | rouscaillerai /ʁus.kaj.ʁe/ | rouscailleras /ʁus.kaj.ʁa/ | rouscaillera /ʁus.kaj.ʁa/ | rouscaillerons /ʁus.kaj.ʁɔ̃/ | rouscaillerez /ʁus.kaj.ʁe/ | rouscailleront /ʁus.kaj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rouscaillerais /ʁus.kaj.ʁɛ/ | rouscaillerais /ʁus.kaj.ʁɛ/ | rouscaillerait /ʁus.kaj.ʁɛ/ | rouscaillerions /ʁus.ka.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ | rouscailleriez /ʁus.ka.jə.ʁje/ | rouscailleraient /ʁus.kaj.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 | rouscaille /ʁus.kaj/ | rouscailles /ʁus.kaj/ | rouscaille /ʁus.kaj/ | rouscaillions /ʁus.kaj.jɔ̃/ | rouscailliez /ʁus.kaj.je/ | rouscaillent /ʁus.kaj/ |
| imperfect2 | rouscaillasse /ʁus.ka.jas/ | rouscaillasses /ʁus.ka.jas/ | rouscaillât /ʁus.ka.ja/ | rouscaillassions /ʁus.ka.ja.sjɔ̃/ | rouscaillassiez /ʁus.ka.ja.sje/ | rouscaillassent /ʁus.ka.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rouscaille /ʁus.kaj/ | — | rouscaillons /ʁus.ka.jɔ̃/ | rouscaillez /ʁus.ka.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “rouscailler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.