boitiller

French

Etymology

Diminutive form of boiter (“to limp”)

Pronunciation

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Verb

boitiller

1. (intransitive) to hobble; to limp slightly

Conjugation

Conjugation of boitiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	boitiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	boitillant /bwa.ti.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		boitillé /bwa.ti.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	boitille /bwa.tij/	boitilles /bwa.tij/	boitille /bwa.tij/	boitillons /bwa.ti.jɔ̃/	boitillez /bwa.ti.je/	boitillent /bwa.tij/
	imperfect	boitillais /bwa.ti.jɛ/	boitillais /bwa.ti.jɛ/	boitillait /bwa.ti.jɛ/	boitillions /bwa.tij.jɔ̃/	boitilliez /bwa.tij.je/	boitillaient /bwa.ti.jɛ/
	past historic2	boitillai /bwa.ti.je/	boitillas /bwa.ti.ja/	boitilla /bwa.ti.ja/	boitillâmes /bwa.ti.jam/	boitillâtes /bwa.ti.jat/	boitillèrent /bwa.ti.jɛʁ/
	future	boitillerai /bwa.tij.ʁe/	boitilleras /bwa.tij.ʁa/	boitillera /bwa.tij.ʁa/	boitillerons /bwa.tij.ʁɔ̃/	boitillerez /bwa.tij.ʁe/	boitilleront /bwa.tij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	boitillerais /bwa.tij.ʁɛ/	boitillerais /bwa.tij.ʁɛ/	boitillerait /bwa.tij.ʁɛ/	boitillerions /bwa.ti.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	boitilleriez /bwa.ti.jə.ʁje/	boitilleraient /bwa.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	boitille /bwa.tij/	boitilles /bwa.tij/	boitille /bwa.tij/	boitillions /bwa.tij.jɔ̃/	boitilliez /bwa.tij.je/	boitillent /bwa.tij/
	imperfect2	boitillasse /bwa.ti.jas/	boitillasses /bwa.ti.jas/	boitillât /bwa.ti.ja/	boitillassions /bwa.ti.ja.sjɔ̃/	boitillassiez /bwa.ti.ja.sje/	boitillassent /bwa.ti.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	boitille /bwa.tij/	—	boitillons /bwa.ti.jɔ̃/	boitillez /bwa.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: 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

• “boitiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.