troller
English
Etymology
troll + -er
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Noun
troller (plural trollers)
- One who fishes by trolling.
- An engine-powered fishing boat, used for moving slowly while fishing lines drag behind, sometimes able to sail in shallow water.
- (Internet) A troll; a user who maliciously provokes others.
See also
- trawler
French
Etymology
From Old French troller, of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *truzlōną (“to lumber”), which is probably related to *trudaną (“to tread, step on”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁɔ.le/
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Verb
troller
- (hunting) to wander unsystematically about, looking for game
- (Internet) to troll
Conjugation
Conjugation of troller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | troller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | trollant /tʁɔ.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | trollé /tʁɔ.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | trolle /tʁɔl/ | trolles /tʁɔl/ | trolle /tʁɔl/ | trollons /tʁɔ.lɔ̃/ | trollez /tʁɔ.le/ | trollent /tʁɔl/ |
| imperfect | trollais /tʁɔ.lɛ/ | trollais /tʁɔ.lɛ/ | trollait /tʁɔ.lɛ/ | trollions /tʁɔ.ljɔ̃/ | trolliez /tʁɔ.lje/ | trollaient /tʁɔ.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | trollai /tʁɔ.le/ | trollas /tʁɔ.la/ | trolla /tʁɔ.la/ | trollâmes /tʁɔ.lam/ | trollâtes /tʁɔ.lat/ | trollèrent /tʁɔ.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | trollerai /tʁɔl.ʁe/ | trolleras /tʁɔl.ʁa/ | trollera /tʁɔl.ʁa/ | trollerons /tʁɔl.ʁɔ̃/ | trollerez /tʁɔl.ʁe/ | trolleront /tʁɔl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | trollerais /tʁɔl.ʁɛ/ | trollerais /tʁɔl.ʁɛ/ | trollerait /tʁɔl.ʁɛ/ | trollerions /tʁɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ | trolleriez /tʁɔ.lə.ʁje/ | trolleraient /tʁɔl.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 | trolle /tʁɔl/ | trolles /tʁɔl/ | trolle /tʁɔl/ | trollions /tʁɔ.ljɔ̃/ | trolliez /tʁɔ.lje/ | trollent /tʁɔl/ |
| imperfect2 | trollasse /tʁɔ.las/ | trollasses /tʁɔ.las/ | trollât /tʁɔ.la/ | trollassions /tʁɔ.la.sjɔ̃/ | trollassiez /tʁɔ.la.sje/ | trollassent /tʁɔ.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | trolle /tʁɔl/ | — | trollons /tʁɔ.lɔ̃/ | trollez /tʁɔ.le/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “tredan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 521
Further reading
- “troller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.