tournailler

French

Etymology

From tourner +‎ -ailler.

Pronunciation

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Verb

tournailler

1. to wander round and round

Conjugation

Conjugation of tournailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tournailler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tournaillant /tuʁ.na.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tournaillé /tuʁ.na.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tournaille /tuʁ.naj/	tournailles /tuʁ.naj/	tournaille /tuʁ.naj/	tournaillons /tuʁ.na.jɔ̃/	tournaillez /tuʁ.na.je/	tournaillent /tuʁ.naj/
	imperfect	tournaillais /tuʁ.na.jɛ/	tournaillais /tuʁ.na.jɛ/	tournaillait /tuʁ.na.jɛ/	tournaillions /tuʁ.naj.jɔ̃/	tournailliez /tuʁ.naj.je/	tournaillaient /tuʁ.na.jɛ/
	past historic2	tournaillai /tuʁ.na.je/	tournaillas /tuʁ.na.ja/	tournailla /tuʁ.na.ja/	tournaillâmes /tuʁ.na.jam/	tournaillâtes /tuʁ.na.jat/	tournaillèrent /tuʁ.na.jɛʁ/
	future	tournaillerai /tuʁ.naj.ʁe/	tournailleras /tuʁ.naj.ʁa/	tournaillera /tuʁ.naj.ʁa/	tournaillerons /tuʁ.naj.ʁɔ̃/	tournaillerez /tuʁ.naj.ʁe/	tournailleront /tuʁ.naj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tournaillerais /tuʁ.naj.ʁɛ/	tournaillerais /tuʁ.naj.ʁɛ/	tournaillerait /tuʁ.naj.ʁɛ/	tournaillerions /tuʁ.na.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	tournailleriez /tuʁ.na.jə.ʁje/	tournailleraient /tuʁ.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	tournaille /tuʁ.naj/	tournailles /tuʁ.naj/	tournaille /tuʁ.naj/	tournaillions /tuʁ.naj.jɔ̃/	tournailliez /tuʁ.naj.je/	tournaillent /tuʁ.naj/
	imperfect2	tournaillasse /tuʁ.na.jas/	tournaillasses /tuʁ.na.jas/	tournaillât /tuʁ.na.ja/	tournaillassions /tuʁ.na.ja.sjɔ̃/	tournaillassiez /tuʁ.na.ja.sje/	tournaillassent /tuʁ.na.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tournaille /tuʁ.naj/	—	tournaillons /tuʁ.na.jɔ̃/	tournaillez /tuʁ.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

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