toiler
English
Etymology
toil + -er.
Noun
toiler (plural toilers)
- A person who toils or labors.
- 1929, Alexander Berkman, chapter 3, in Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism, New York: Vanguard Press, OCLC 83572649:
- Every workingman in your city, every toiler in your country, in every country, in the whole world, is exploited and enslaved the same as you are.
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Anagrams
- Loiret, loiter, triole
French
Etymology
From toile + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /twa.le/
Verb
toiler
- to cover with cloth
- (nautical) to extent the sail of a watercraft
Conjugation
Conjugation of toiler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | toilant /twa.lɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | toilé /twa.le/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | toiler | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | toilant /twa.lɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | toile /twal/ | toiles /twal/ | toile /twal/ | toilons /twa.lɔ̃/ | toilez /twa.le/ | toilent /twal/ |
| imperfect | toilais /twa.lɛ/ | toilais /twa.lɛ/ | toilait /twa.lɛ/ | toilions /twa.ljɔ̃/ | toiliez /twa.lje/ | toilaient /twa.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | toilai /twa.le/ | toilas /twa.la/ | toila /twa.la/ | toilâmes /twa.lam/ | toilâtes /twa.lat/ | toilèrent /twa.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | toilerai /twal.ʁe/ | toileras /twal.ʁa/ | toilera /twal.ʁa/ | toilerons /twal.ʁɔ̃/ | toilerez /twal.ʁe/ | toileront /twal.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | toilerais /twal.ʁɛ/ | toilerais /twal.ʁɛ/ | toilerait /twal.ʁɛ/ | toilerions /twa.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ | toileriez /twa.lə.ʁje/ | toileraient /twal.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 | toile /twal/ | toiles /twal/ | toile /twal/ | toilions /twa.ljɔ̃/ | toiliez /twa.lje/ | toilent /twal/ |
| imperfect2 | toilasse /twa.las/ | toilasses /twa.las/ | toilât /twa.la/ | toilassions /twa.la.sjɔ̃/ | toilassiez /twa.la.sje/ | toilassent /twa.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | toile /twal/ | — | toilons /twa.lɔ̃/ | toilez /twa.le/ | — | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Anagrams
- orteil