gazouiller

French

Etymology

Of onomatopoeic origin. In the Internet sense, a calque of English tweet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.zu.je/

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Verb

gazouiller

1. (of a bird) to chirp, to twitter
2. (of a baby) to gurgle
3. (North America, Internet) to tweet (microblogging)

Conjugation

Conjugation of gazouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	gazouiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	gazouillant /ɡa.zu.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		gazouillé /ɡa.zu.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	gazouille /ɡa.zuj/	gazouilles /ɡa.zuj/	gazouille /ɡa.zuj/	gazouillons /ɡa.zu.jɔ̃/	gazouillez /ɡa.zu.je/	gazouillent /ɡa.zuj/
	imperfect	gazouillais /ɡa.zu.jɛ/	gazouillais /ɡa.zu.jɛ/	gazouillait /ɡa.zu.jɛ/	gazouillions /ɡa.zuj.jɔ̃/	gazouilliez /ɡa.zuj.je/	gazouillaient /ɡa.zu.jɛ/
	past historic2	gazouillai /ɡa.zu.je/	gazouillas /ɡa.zu.ja/	gazouilla /ɡa.zu.ja/	gazouillâmes /ɡa.zu.jam/	gazouillâtes /ɡa.zu.jat/	gazouillèrent /ɡa.zu.jɛʁ/
	future	gazouillerai /ɡa.zuj.ʁe/	gazouilleras /ɡa.zuj.ʁa/	gazouillera /ɡa.zuj.ʁa/	gazouillerons /ɡa.zuj.ʁɔ̃/	gazouillerez /ɡa.zuj.ʁe/	gazouilleront /ɡa.zuj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	gazouillerais /ɡa.zuj.ʁɛ/	gazouillerais /ɡa.zuj.ʁɛ/	gazouillerait /ɡa.zuj.ʁɛ/	gazouillerions /ɡa.zu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	gazouilleriez /ɡa.zu.jə.ʁje/	gazouilleraient /ɡa.zuj.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	gazouille /ɡa.zuj/	gazouilles /ɡa.zuj/	gazouille /ɡa.zuj/	gazouillions /ɡa.zuj.jɔ̃/	gazouilliez /ɡa.zuj.je/	gazouillent /ɡa.zuj/
	imperfect2	gazouillasse /ɡa.zu.jas/	gazouillasses /ɡa.zu.jas/	gazouillât /ɡa.zu.ja/	gazouillassions /ɡa.zu.ja.sjɔ̃/	gazouillassiez /ɡa.zu.ja.sje/	gazouillassent /ɡa.zu.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	gazouille /ɡa.zuj/	—	gazouillons /ɡa.zu.jɔ̃/	gazouillez /ɡa.zu.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).

Derived terms

• gazouillis
• gazouillement

Further reading

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