mordiller

French

Etymology

From mordre +‎ -iller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁ.di.je/

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Verb

mordiller

1. to chew (to crush food with teeth prior to swallowing)

Conjugation

Conjugation of mordiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mordiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mordillant /mɔʁ.di.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		mordillé /mɔʁ.di.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mordille /mɔʁ.dij/	mordilles /mɔʁ.dij/	mordille /mɔʁ.dij/	mordillons /mɔʁ.di.jɔ̃/	mordillez /mɔʁ.di.je/	mordillent /mɔʁ.dij/
	imperfect	mordillais /mɔʁ.di.jɛ/	mordillais /mɔʁ.di.jɛ/	mordillait /mɔʁ.di.jɛ/	mordillions /mɔʁ.dij.jɔ̃/	mordilliez /mɔʁ.dij.je/	mordillaient /mɔʁ.di.jɛ/
	past historic2	mordillai /mɔʁ.di.je/	mordillas /mɔʁ.di.ja/	mordilla /mɔʁ.di.ja/	mordillâmes /mɔʁ.di.jam/	mordillâtes /mɔʁ.di.jat/	mordillèrent /mɔʁ.di.jɛʁ/
	future	mordillerai /mɔʁ.dij.ʁe/	mordilleras /mɔʁ.dij.ʁa/	mordillera /mɔʁ.dij.ʁa/	mordillerons /mɔʁ.dij.ʁɔ̃/	mordillerez /mɔʁ.dij.ʁe/	mordilleront /mɔʁ.dij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mordillerais /mɔʁ.dij.ʁɛ/	mordillerais /mɔʁ.dij.ʁɛ/	mordillerait /mɔʁ.dij.ʁɛ/	mordillerions /mɔʁ.di.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	mordilleriez /mɔʁ.di.jə.ʁje/	mordilleraient /mɔʁ.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	mordille /mɔʁ.dij/	mordilles /mɔʁ.dij/	mordille /mɔʁ.dij/	mordillions /mɔʁ.dij.jɔ̃/	mordilliez /mɔʁ.dij.je/	mordillent /mɔʁ.dij/
	imperfect2	mordillasse /mɔʁ.di.jas/	mordillasses /mɔʁ.di.jas/	mordillât /mɔʁ.di.ja/	mordillassions /mɔʁ.di.ja.sjɔ̃/	mordillassiez /mɔʁ.di.ja.sje/	mordillassent /mɔʁ.di.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mordille /mɔʁ.dij/	—	mordillons /mɔʁ.di.jɔ̃/	mordillez /mɔʁ.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).

Further reading

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