tenailler

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tə.na.je/

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Verb

tenailler

1. (transitive) to torture with pincers
2. (transitive) to torment

Conjugation

Conjugation of tenailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tenailler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tenaillant /tə.na.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tenaillé /tə.na.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tenaille /tə.naj/	tenailles /tə.naj/	tenaille /tə.naj/	tenaillons /tə.na.jɔ̃/	tenaillez /tə.na.je/	tenaillent /tə.naj/
	imperfect	tenaillais /tə.na.jɛ/	tenaillais /tə.na.jɛ/	tenaillait /tə.na.jɛ/	tenaillions /tə.naj.jɔ̃/	tenailliez /tə.naj.je/	tenaillaient /tə.na.jɛ/
	past historic2	tenaillai /tə.na.je/	tenaillas /tə.na.ja/	tenailla /tə.na.ja/	tenaillâmes /tə.na.jam/	tenaillâtes /tə.na.jat/	tenaillèrent /tə.na.jɛʁ/
	future	tenaillerai /tə.naj.ʁe/	tenailleras /tə.naj.ʁa/	tenaillera /tə.naj.ʁa/	tenaillerons /tə.naj.ʁɔ̃/	tenaillerez /tə.naj.ʁe/	tenailleront /tə.naj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tenaillerais /tə.naj.ʁɛ/	tenaillerais /tə.naj.ʁɛ/	tenaillerait /tə.naj.ʁɛ/	tenaillerions /tə.na.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	tenailleriez /tə.na.jə.ʁje/	tenailleraient /tə.naj.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	tenaille /tə.naj/	tenailles /tə.naj/	tenaille /tə.naj/	tenaillions /tə.naj.jɔ̃/	tenailliez /tə.naj.je/	tenaillent /tə.naj/
	imperfect2	tenaillasse /tə.na.jas/	tenaillasses /tə.na.jas/	tenaillât /tə.na.ja/	tenaillassions /tə.na.ja.sjɔ̃/	tenaillassiez /tə.na.ja.sje/	tenaillassent /tə.na.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tenaille /tə.naj/	—	tenaillons /tə.na.jɔ̃/	tenaillez /tə.na.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

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

Anagrams

• aillèrent, allièrent, entailler, éraillent