ciller

See also: çiller and Çiller

French

Etymology

From cil (“eyelash”) +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.je/

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Verb

ciller

1. to blink
2. to bat an eyelash

Conjugation

Conjugation of ciller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ciller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cillant /si.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cillé /si.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cille /sij/	cilles /sij/	cille /sij/	cillons /si.jɔ̃/	cillez /si.je/	cillent /sij/
	imperfect	cillais /si.jɛ/	cillais /si.jɛ/	cillait /si.jɛ/	cillions /sij.jɔ̃/	cilliez /sij.je/	cillaient /si.jɛ/
	past historic2	cillai /si.je/	cillas /si.ja/	cilla /si.ja/	cillâmes /si.jam/	cillâtes /si.jat/	cillèrent /si.jɛʁ/
	future	cillerai /sij.ʁe/	cilleras /sij.ʁa/	cillera /sij.ʁa/	cillerons /sij.ʁɔ̃/	cillerez /sij.ʁe/	cilleront /sij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cillerais /sij.ʁɛ/	cillerais /sij.ʁɛ/	cillerait /sij.ʁɛ/	cillerions /si.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	cilleriez /si.jə.ʁje/	cilleraient /sij.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	cille /sij/	cilles /sij/	cille /sij/	cillions /sij.jɔ̃/	cilliez /sij.je/	cillent /sij/
	imperfect2	cillasse /si.jas/	cillasses /si.jas/	cillât /si.ja/	cillassions /si.ja.sjɔ̃/	cillassiez /si.ja.sje/	cillassent /si.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cille /sij/	—	cillons /si.jɔ̃/	cillez /si.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).

Related terms

• cil

See also

• cligner
• clin

Further reading

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