effiler

French

Etymology

From ex- +‎ filer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.fi.le/

• Audio:

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Verb

effiler

1. (transitive) to thin, taper
2. (transitive) to fray

Conjugation

Conjugation of effiler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	effiler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	effilant /e.fi.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		effilé /e.fi.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	effile /e.fil/	effiles /e.fil/	effile /e.fil/	effilons /e.fi.lɔ̃/	effilez /e.fi.le/	effilent /e.fil/
	imperfect	effilais /e.fi.lɛ/	effilais /e.fi.lɛ/	effilait /e.fi.lɛ/	effilions /e.fi.ljɔ̃/	effiliez /e.fi.lje/	effilaient /e.fi.lɛ/
	past historic2	effilai /e.fi.le/	effilas /e.fi.la/	effila /e.fi.la/	effilâmes /e.fi.lam/	effilâtes /e.fi.lat/	effilèrent /e.fi.lɛʁ/
	future	effilerai /e.fil.ʁe/	effileras /e.fil.ʁa/	effilera /e.fil.ʁa/	effilerons /e.fil.ʁɔ̃/	effilerez /e.fil.ʁe/	effileront /e.fil.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	effilerais /e.fil.ʁɛ/	effilerais /e.fil.ʁɛ/	effilerait /e.fil.ʁɛ/	effilerions /e.fi.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	effileriez /e.fi.lə.ʁje/	effileraient /e.fil.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	effile /e.fil/	effiles /e.fil/	effile /e.fil/	effilions /e.fi.ljɔ̃/	effiliez /e.fi.lje/	effilent /e.fil/
	imperfect2	effilasse /e.fi.las/	effilasses /e.fi.las/	effilât /e.fi.la/	effilassions /e.fi.la.sjɔ̃/	effilassiez /e.fi.la.sje/	effilassent /e.fi.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	effile /e.fil/	—	effilons /e.fi.lɔ̃/	effilez /e.fi.le/	—
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

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