vétiller
French edit
Etymology edit
Probably from vette (“ribbon, stripe”) + -iller, from Old French vete, from Latin vitta.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
vétiller
- (intransitive, archaic) to trifle (deal with unimportant things)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of vétiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | vétiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | vétillant /ve.ti.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | vétillé /ve.ti.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | vétille /ve.tij/ |
vétilles /ve.tij/ |
vétille /ve.tij/ |
vétillons /ve.ti.jɔ̃/ |
vétillez /ve.ti.je/ |
vétillent /ve.tij/ |
| imperfect | vétillais /ve.ti.jɛ/ |
vétillais /ve.ti.jɛ/ |
vétillait /ve.ti.jɛ/ |
vétillions /ve.tij.jɔ̃/ |
vétilliez /ve.tij.je/ |
vétillaient /ve.ti.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | vétillai /ve.ti.je/ |
vétillas /ve.ti.ja/ |
vétilla /ve.ti.ja/ |
vétillâmes /ve.ti.jam/ |
vétillâtes /ve.ti.jat/ |
vétillèrent /ve.ti.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | vétillerai /ve.tij.ʁe/ |
vétilleras /ve.tij.ʁa/ |
vétillera /ve.tij.ʁa/ |
vétillerons /ve.tij.ʁɔ̃/ |
vétillerez /ve.tij.ʁe/ |
vétilleront /ve.tij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | vétillerais /ve.tij.ʁɛ/ |
vétillerais /ve.tij.ʁɛ/ |
vétillerait /ve.tij.ʁɛ/ |
vétillerions /ve.ti.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vétilleriez /ve.ti.jə.ʁje/ |
vétilleraient /ve.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 | vétille /ve.tij/ |
vétilles /ve.tij/ |
vétille /ve.tij/ |
vétillions /ve.tij.jɔ̃/ |
vétilliez /ve.tij.je/ |
vétillent /ve.tij/ |
| imperfect2 | vétillasse /ve.ti.jas/ |
vétillasses /ve.ti.jas/ |
vétillât /ve.ti.ja/ |
vétillassions /ve.ti.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
vétillassiez /ve.ti.ja.sje/ |
vétillassent /ve.ti.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | vétille /ve.tij/ |
— | vétillons /ve.ti.jɔ̃/ |
vétillez /ve.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). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “vétiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.