retailler

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French retaillier. By surface analysis, re- +‎ tailler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.ta.je/

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Verb

retailler

1. to recut (to cut again)

Conjugation

Conjugation of retailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	retailler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	retaillant /ʁə.ta.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		retaillé /ʁə.ta.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	retaille /ʁə.taj/	retailles /ʁə.taj/	retaille /ʁə.taj/	retaillons /ʁə.ta.jɔ̃/	retaillez /ʁə.ta.je/	retaillent /ʁə.taj/
	imperfect	retaillais /ʁə.ta.jɛ/	retaillais /ʁə.ta.jɛ/	retaillait /ʁə.ta.jɛ/	retaillions /ʁə.taj.jɔ̃/	retailliez /ʁə.taj.je/	retaillaient /ʁə.ta.jɛ/
	past historic2	retaillai /ʁə.ta.je/	retaillas /ʁə.ta.ja/	retailla /ʁə.ta.ja/	retaillâmes /ʁə.ta.jam/	retaillâtes /ʁə.ta.jat/	retaillèrent /ʁə.ta.jɛʁ/
	future	retaillerai /ʁə.taj.ʁe/	retailleras /ʁə.taj.ʁa/	retaillera /ʁə.taj.ʁa/	retaillerons /ʁə.taj.ʁɔ̃/	retaillerez /ʁə.taj.ʁe/	retailleront /ʁə.taj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	retaillerais /ʁə.taj.ʁɛ/	retaillerais /ʁə.taj.ʁɛ/	retaillerait /ʁə.taj.ʁɛ/	retaillerions /ʁə.ta.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	retailleriez /ʁə.ta.jə.ʁje/	retailleraient /ʁə.taj.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	retaille /ʁə.taj/	retailles /ʁə.taj/	retaille /ʁə.taj/	retaillions /ʁə.taj.jɔ̃/	retailliez /ʁə.taj.je/	retaillent /ʁə.taj/
	imperfect2	retaillasse /ʁə.ta.jas/	retaillasses /ʁə.ta.jas/	retaillât /ʁə.ta.ja/	retaillassions /ʁə.ta.ja.sjɔ̃/	retaillassiez /ʁə.ta.ja.sje/	retaillassent /ʁə.ta.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	retaille /ʁə.taj/	—	retaillons /ʁə.ta.jɔ̃/	retaillez /ʁə.ta.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

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