tortiller
French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *tortiliāre, from Latin tortilis, or alternatively a regressive derivation of entortiller. Compare Italian tortigliare, attortigliare, attortigliato, Spanish retortijar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔʁ.ti.je/
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Verb
tortiller
- (transitive) to twist, twirl
- (reflexive) to wriggle, squirm, writhe
Conjugation
Conjugation of tortiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tortiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tortillant /tɔʁ.ti.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tortillé /tɔʁ.ti.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | tortille /tɔʁ.tij/ | tortilles /tɔʁ.tij/ | tortille /tɔʁ.tij/ | tortillons /tɔʁ.ti.jɔ̃/ | tortillez /tɔʁ.ti.je/ | tortillent /tɔʁ.tij/ |
| imperfect | tortillais /tɔʁ.ti.jɛ/ | tortillais /tɔʁ.ti.jɛ/ | tortillait /tɔʁ.ti.jɛ/ | tortillions /tɔʁ.tij.jɔ̃/ | tortilliez /tɔʁ.tij.je/ | tortillaient /tɔʁ.ti.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tortillai /tɔʁ.ti.je/ | tortillas /tɔʁ.ti.ja/ | tortilla /tɔʁ.ti.ja/ | tortillâmes /tɔʁ.ti.jam/ | tortillâtes /tɔʁ.ti.jat/ | tortillèrent /tɔʁ.ti.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | tortillerai /tɔʁ.tij.ʁe/ | tortilleras /tɔʁ.tij.ʁa/ | tortillera /tɔʁ.tij.ʁa/ | tortillerons /tɔʁ.tij.ʁɔ̃/ | tortillerez /tɔʁ.tij.ʁe/ | tortilleront /tɔʁ.tij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tortillerais /tɔʁ.tij.ʁɛ/ | tortillerais /tɔʁ.tij.ʁɛ/ | tortillerait /tɔʁ.tij.ʁɛ/ | tortillerions /tɔʁ.ti.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ | tortilleriez /tɔʁ.ti.jə.ʁje/ | tortilleraient /tɔʁ.tij.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 | tortille /tɔʁ.tij/ | tortilles /tɔʁ.tij/ | tortille /tɔʁ.tij/ | tortillions /tɔʁ.tij.jɔ̃/ | tortilliez /tɔʁ.tij.je/ | tortillent /tɔʁ.tij/ |
| imperfect2 | tortillasse /tɔʁ.ti.jas/ | tortillasses /tɔʁ.ti.jas/ | tortillât /tɔʁ.ti.ja/ | tortillassions /tɔʁ.ti.ja.sjɔ̃/ | tortillassiez /tɔʁ.ti.ja.sje/ | tortillassent /tɔʁ.ti.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tortille /tɔʁ.tij/ | — | tortillons /tɔʁ.ti.jɔ̃/ | tortillez /tɔʁ.ti.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
- entortiller
Further reading
- “tortiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.