trembloter

French

Etymology

Diminutive form of trembler

Pronunciation

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Verb

trembloter

1. (intransitive) to quiver

Conjugation

Conjugation of trembloter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	trembloter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tremblotant /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trembloté /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tremblote /tʁɑ̃.blɔt/	tremblotes /tʁɑ̃.blɔt/	tremblote /tʁɑ̃.blɔt/	tremblotons /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tɔ̃/	tremblotez /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.te/	tremblotent /tʁɑ̃.blɔt/
	imperfect	tremblotais /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tɛ/	tremblotais /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tɛ/	tremblotait /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tɛ/	tremblotions /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tjɔ̃/	tremblotiez /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tje/	tremblotaient /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	tremblotai /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.te/	tremblotas /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.ta/	tremblota /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.ta/	tremblotâmes /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tam/	tremblotâtes /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tat/	tremblotèrent /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	trembloterai /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tʁe/	trembloteras /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tʁa/	tremblotera /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tʁa/	trembloterons /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tʁɔ̃/	trembloterez /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tʁe/	trembloteront /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trembloterais /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tʁɛ/	trembloterais /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tʁɛ/	trembloterait /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tʁɛ/	trembloterions /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	trembloteriez /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tə.ʁje/	trembloteraient /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tʁɛ/
(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	tremblote /tʁɑ̃.blɔt/	tremblotes /tʁɑ̃.blɔt/	tremblote /tʁɑ̃.blɔt/	tremblotions /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tjɔ̃/	tremblotiez /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tje/	tremblotent /tʁɑ̃.blɔt/
	imperfect2	tremblotasse /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tas/	tremblotasses /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tas/	tremblotât /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.ta/	tremblotassions /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	tremblotassiez /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.ta.sje/	tremblotassent /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tremblote /tʁɑ̃.blɔt/	—	tremblotons /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.tɔ̃/	tremblotez /tʁɑ̃.blɔ.te/	—
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

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