tournailler
French
Etymology
tourner + -ailler
Pronunciation
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Verb
tournailler
- to wander round and round
Conjugation
Conjugation of tournailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | tournailler | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | tournaillant /tuʁ.na.jɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | tournaillé /tuʁ.na.je/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | tournaille /tuʁ.naj/ | tournailles /tuʁ.naj/ | tournaille /tuʁ.naj/ | tournaillons /tuʁ.na.jɔ̃/ | tournaillez /tuʁ.na.je/ | tournaillent /tuʁ.naj/ |
imperfect | tournaillais /tuʁ.na.jɛ/ | tournaillais /tuʁ.na.jɛ/ | tournaillait /tuʁ.na.jɛ/ | tournaillions /tuʁ.naj.jɔ̃/ | tournailliez /tuʁ.naj.je/ | tournaillaient /tuʁ.na.jɛ/ | |
past historic2 | tournaillai /tuʁ.na.je/ | tournaillas /tuʁ.na.ja/ | tournailla /tuʁ.na.ja/ | tournaillâmes /tuʁ.na.jam/ | tournaillâtes /tuʁ.na.jat/ | tournaillèrent /tuʁ.na.jɛʁ/ | |
future | tournaillerai /tuʁ.naj.ʁe/ | tournailleras /tuʁ.naj.ʁa/ | tournaillera /tuʁ.naj.ʁa/ | tournaillerons /tuʁ.naj.ʁɔ̃/ | tournaillerez /tuʁ.naj.ʁe/ | tournailleront /tuʁ.naj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | tournaillerais /tuʁ.naj.ʁɛ/ | tournaillerais /tuʁ.naj.ʁɛ/ | tournaillerait /tuʁ.naj.ʁɛ/ | tournaillerions /tuʁ.na.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ | tournailleriez /tuʁ.na.jə.ʁje/ | tournailleraient /tuʁ.naj.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 | tournaille /tuʁ.naj/ | tournailles /tuʁ.naj/ | tournaille /tuʁ.naj/ | tournaillions /tuʁ.naj.jɔ̃/ | tournailliez /tuʁ.naj.je/ | tournaillent /tuʁ.naj/ |
imperfect2 | tournaillasse /tuʁ.na.jas/ | tournaillasses /tuʁ.na.jas/ | tournaillât /tuʁ.na.ja/ | tournaillassions /tuʁ.na.ja.sjɔ̃/ | tournaillassiez /tuʁ.na.ja.sje/ | tournaillassent /tuʁ.na.jas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | tournaille /tuʁ.naj/ | — | tournaillons /tuʁ.na.jɔ̃/ | tournaillez /tuʁ.na.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
- “tournailler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.