retailler
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French retaillier. By surface analysis, re- + tailler.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
retailler
- to recut (to cut again)
Conjugation edit
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “retailler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.