scintiller

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scintillāre. Compare étinceler, which may be an inherited doublet through a Vulgar Latin derivative, or an internal formation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.ti.je/

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Verb

scintiller

1. to sparkle, twinkle

Conjugation

Conjugation of scintiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	scintiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	scintillant /sɛ̃.ti.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		scintillé /sɛ̃.ti.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	scintille /sɛ̃.tij/	scintilles /sɛ̃.tij/	scintille /sɛ̃.tij/	scintillons /sɛ̃.ti.jɔ̃/	scintillez /sɛ̃.ti.je/	scintillent /sɛ̃.tij/
	imperfect	scintillais /sɛ̃.ti.jɛ/	scintillais /sɛ̃.ti.jɛ/	scintillait /sɛ̃.ti.jɛ/	scintillions /sɛ̃.tij.jɔ̃/	scintilliez /sɛ̃.tij.je/	scintillaient /sɛ̃.ti.jɛ/
	past historic2	scintillai /sɛ̃.ti.je/	scintillas /sɛ̃.ti.ja/	scintilla /sɛ̃.ti.ja/	scintillâmes /sɛ̃.ti.jam/	scintillâtes /sɛ̃.ti.jat/	scintillèrent /sɛ̃.ti.jɛʁ/
	future	scintillerai /sɛ̃.tij.ʁe/	scintilleras /sɛ̃.tij.ʁa/	scintillera /sɛ̃.tij.ʁa/	scintillerons /sɛ̃.tij.ʁɔ̃/	scintillerez /sɛ̃.tij.ʁe/	scintilleront /sɛ̃.tij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	scintillerais /sɛ̃.tij.ʁɛ/	scintillerais /sɛ̃.tij.ʁɛ/	scintillerait /sɛ̃.tij.ʁɛ/	scintillerions /sɛ̃.ti.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	scintilleriez /sɛ̃.ti.jə.ʁje/	scintilleraient /sɛ̃.tij.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	scintille /sɛ̃.tij/	scintilles /sɛ̃.tij/	scintille /sɛ̃.tij/	scintillions /sɛ̃.tij.jɔ̃/	scintilliez /sɛ̃.tij.je/	scintillent /sɛ̃.tij/
	imperfect2	scintillasse /sɛ̃.ti.jas/	scintillasses /sɛ̃.ti.jas/	scintillât /sɛ̃.ti.ja/	scintillassions /sɛ̃.ti.ja.sjɔ̃/	scintillassiez /sɛ̃.ti.ja.sje/	scintillassent /sɛ̃.ti.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	scintille /sɛ̃.tij/	—	scintillons /sɛ̃.ti.jɔ̃/	scintillez /sɛ̃.ti.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

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

Latin

Verb

scintiller

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of scintillō