frétiller
French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French froitier.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
frétiller
- (intransitive) to wriggle
- (intransitive) to wag (of a tail)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of frétiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | frétiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | frétillant /fʁe.ti.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | frétillé /fʁe.ti.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | frétille /fʁe.tij/ |
frétilles /fʁe.tij/ |
frétille /fʁe.tij/ |
frétillons /fʁe.ti.jɔ̃/ |
frétillez /fʁe.ti.je/ |
frétillent /fʁe.tij/ |
| imperfect | frétillais /fʁe.ti.jɛ/ |
frétillais /fʁe.ti.jɛ/ |
frétillait /fʁe.ti.jɛ/ |
frétillions /fʁe.tij.jɔ̃/ |
frétilliez /fʁe.tij.je/ |
frétillaient /fʁe.ti.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | frétillai /fʁe.ti.je/ |
frétillas /fʁe.ti.ja/ |
frétilla /fʁe.ti.ja/ |
frétillâmes /fʁe.ti.jam/ |
frétillâtes /fʁe.ti.jat/ |
frétillèrent /fʁe.ti.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | frétillerai /fʁe.tij.ʁe/ |
frétilleras /fʁe.tij.ʁa/ |
frétillera /fʁe.tij.ʁa/ |
frétillerons /fʁe.tij.ʁɔ̃/ |
frétillerez /fʁe.tij.ʁe/ |
frétilleront /fʁe.tij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | frétillerais /fʁe.tij.ʁɛ/ |
frétillerais /fʁe.tij.ʁɛ/ |
frétillerait /fʁe.tij.ʁɛ/ |
frétillerions /fʁe.ti.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
frétilleriez /fʁe.ti.jə.ʁje/ |
frétilleraient /fʁe.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 | frétille /fʁe.tij/ |
frétilles /fʁe.tij/ |
frétille /fʁe.tij/ |
frétillions /fʁe.tij.jɔ̃/ |
frétilliez /fʁe.tij.je/ |
frétillent /fʁe.tij/ |
| imperfect2 | frétillasse /fʁe.ti.jas/ |
frétillasses /fʁe.ti.jas/ |
frétillât /fʁe.ti.ja/ |
frétillassions /fʁe.ti.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
frétillassiez /fʁe.ti.ja.sje/ |
frétillassent /fʁe.ti.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | frétille /fʁe.tij/ |
— | frétillons /fʁe.ti.jɔ̃/ |
frétillez /fʁe.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). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “frétiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.