mitrailler

French

Etymology

From mitraille +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi.tʁa.je/

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Verb

mitrailler

1. (transitive, intransitive) to machine-gun, to fire
2. (transitive) to snap away (take many photos of)
3. (transitive, vulgar) to pummel (have hard sex with)

Conjugation

Conjugation of mitrailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mitrailler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mitraillant /mi.tʁa.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		mitraillé /mi.tʁa.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mitraille /mi.tʁaj/	mitrailles /mi.tʁaj/	mitraille /mi.tʁaj/	mitraillons /mi.tʁa.jɔ̃/	mitraillez /mi.tʁa.je/	mitraillent /mi.tʁaj/
	imperfect	mitraillais /mi.tʁa.jɛ/	mitraillais /mi.tʁa.jɛ/	mitraillait /mi.tʁa.jɛ/	mitraillions /mi.tʁaj.jɔ̃/	mitrailliez /mi.tʁaj.je/	mitraillaient /mi.tʁa.jɛ/
	past historic2	mitraillai /mi.tʁa.je/	mitraillas /mi.tʁa.ja/	mitrailla /mi.tʁa.ja/	mitraillâmes /mi.tʁa.jam/	mitraillâtes /mi.tʁa.jat/	mitraillèrent /mi.tʁa.jɛʁ/
	future	mitraillerai /mi.tʁaj.ʁe/	mitrailleras /mi.tʁaj.ʁa/	mitraillera /mi.tʁaj.ʁa/	mitraillerons /mi.tʁaj.ʁɔ̃/	mitraillerez /mi.tʁaj.ʁe/	mitrailleront /mi.tʁaj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mitraillerais /mi.tʁaj.ʁɛ/	mitraillerais /mi.tʁaj.ʁɛ/	mitraillerait /mi.tʁaj.ʁɛ/	mitraillerions /mi.tʁa.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	mitrailleriez /mi.tʁa.jə.ʁje/	mitrailleraient /mi.tʁaj.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	mitraille /mi.tʁaj/	mitrailles /mi.tʁaj/	mitraille /mi.tʁaj/	mitraillions /mi.tʁaj.jɔ̃/	mitrailliez /mi.tʁaj.je/	mitraillent /mi.tʁaj/
	imperfect2	mitraillasse /mi.tʁa.jas/	mitraillasses /mi.tʁa.jas/	mitraillât /mi.tʁa.ja/	mitraillassions /mi.tʁa.ja.sjɔ̃/	mitraillassiez /mi.tʁa.ja.sje/	mitraillassent /mi.tʁa.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mitraille /mi.tʁaj/	—	mitraillons /mi.tʁa.jɔ̃/	mitraillez /mi.tʁa.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

• mitrailleur
• mitrailleuse

Further reading

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