fendiller

French

Etymology

Derivative of the verb fendre with the suffix -iller, or less likely from a Vulgar Latin *findiclāre < *findiculāre, from Latin findō. Compare also Old Occitan fendilhar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɑ̃.di.je/

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Verb

fendiller

1. (transitive) to crack, craze

Conjugation

Conjugation of fendiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fendiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fendillant /fɑ̃.di.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fendillé /fɑ̃.di.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fendille /fɑ̃.dij/	fendilles /fɑ̃.dij/	fendille /fɑ̃.dij/	fendillons /fɑ̃.di.jɔ̃/	fendillez /fɑ̃.di.je/	fendillent /fɑ̃.dij/
	imperfect	fendillais /fɑ̃.di.jɛ/	fendillais /fɑ̃.di.jɛ/	fendillait /fɑ̃.di.jɛ/	fendillions /fɑ̃.dij.jɔ̃/	fendilliez /fɑ̃.dij.je/	fendillaient /fɑ̃.di.jɛ/
	past historic2	fendillai /fɑ̃.di.je/	fendillas /fɑ̃.di.ja/	fendilla /fɑ̃.di.ja/	fendillâmes /fɑ̃.di.jam/	fendillâtes /fɑ̃.di.jat/	fendillèrent /fɑ̃.di.jɛʁ/
	future	fendillerai /fɑ̃.dij.ʁe/	fendilleras /fɑ̃.dij.ʁa/	fendillera /fɑ̃.dij.ʁa/	fendillerons /fɑ̃.dij.ʁɔ̃/	fendillerez /fɑ̃.dij.ʁe/	fendilleront /fɑ̃.dij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fendillerais /fɑ̃.dij.ʁɛ/	fendillerais /fɑ̃.dij.ʁɛ/	fendillerait /fɑ̃.dij.ʁɛ/	fendillerions /fɑ̃.di.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	fendilleriez /fɑ̃.di.jə.ʁje/	fendilleraient /fɑ̃.dij.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	fendille /fɑ̃.dij/	fendilles /fɑ̃.dij/	fendille /fɑ̃.dij/	fendillions /fɑ̃.dij.jɔ̃/	fendilliez /fɑ̃.dij.je/	fendillent /fɑ̃.dij/
	imperfect2	fendillasse /fɑ̃.di.jas/	fendillasses /fɑ̃.di.jas/	fendillât /fɑ̃.di.ja/	fendillassions /fɑ̃.di.ja.sjɔ̃/	fendillassiez /fɑ̃.di.ja.sje/	fendillassent /fɑ̃.di.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fendille /fɑ̃.dij/	—	fendillons /fɑ̃.di.jɔ̃/	fendillez /fɑ̃.di.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

• fendre

Further reading

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