écouiller

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French escouiller. Equivalent to é- +‎ couilles +‎ -er.

Verb

écouiller

1. to castrate
2. (Louisiana) to injure the testicles of

Conjugation

Conjugation of écouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	écouiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	écouillant /e.ku.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		écouillé /e.ku.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	écouille /e.kuj/	écouilles /e.kuj/	écouille /e.kuj/	écouillons /e.ku.jɔ̃/	écouillez /e.ku.je/	écouillent /e.kuj/
	imperfect	écouillais /e.ku.jɛ/	écouillais /e.ku.jɛ/	écouillait /e.ku.jɛ/	écouillions /e.kuj.jɔ̃/	écouilliez /e.kuj.je/	écouillaient /e.ku.jɛ/
	past historic2	écouillai /e.ku.je/	écouillas /e.ku.ja/	écouilla /e.ku.ja/	écouillâmes /e.ku.jam/	écouillâtes /e.ku.jat/	écouillèrent /e.ku.jɛʁ/
	future	écouillerai /e.kuj.ʁe/	écouilleras /e.kuj.ʁa/	écouillera /e.kuj.ʁa/	écouillerons /e.kuj.ʁɔ̃/	écouillerez /e.kuj.ʁe/	écouilleront /e.kuj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	écouillerais /e.kuj.ʁɛ/	écouillerais /e.kuj.ʁɛ/	écouillerait /e.kuj.ʁɛ/	écouillerions /e.ku.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	écouilleriez /e.ku.jə.ʁje/	écouilleraient /e.kuj.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	écouille /e.kuj/	écouilles /e.kuj/	écouille /e.kuj/	écouillions /e.kuj.jɔ̃/	écouilliez /e.kuj.je/	écouillent /e.kuj/
	imperfect2	écouillasse /e.ku.jas/	écouillasses /e.ku.jas/	écouillât /e.ku.ja/	écouillassions /e.ku.ja.sjɔ̃/	écouillassiez /e.ku.ja.sje/	écouillassent /e.ku.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	écouille /e.kuj/	—	écouillons /e.ku.jɔ̃/	écouillez /e.ku.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “écouiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)