tuiler

French

Etymology

From tuile +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɥi.le/

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Verb

tuiler

1. (transitive) to tile
2. (Freemasonry) to tile (a lodge)

Conjugation

Conjugation of tuiler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tuiler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tuilant /tɥi.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tuilé /tɥi.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tuile /tɥil/	tuiles /tɥil/	tuile /tɥil/	tuilons /tɥi.lɔ̃/	tuilez /tɥi.le/	tuilent /tɥil/
	imperfect	tuilais /tɥi.lɛ/	tuilais /tɥi.lɛ/	tuilait /tɥi.lɛ/	tuilions /tɥi.ljɔ̃/	tuiliez /tɥi.lje/	tuilaient /tɥi.lɛ/
	past historic2	tuilai /tɥi.le/	tuilas /tɥi.la/	tuila /tɥi.la/	tuilâmes /tɥi.lam/	tuilâtes /tɥi.lat/	tuilèrent /tɥi.lɛʁ/
	future	tuilerai /tɥil.ʁe/	tuileras /tɥil.ʁa/	tuilera /tɥil.ʁa/	tuilerons /tɥil.ʁɔ̃/	tuilerez /tɥil.ʁe/	tuileront /tɥil.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tuilerais /tɥil.ʁɛ/	tuilerais /tɥil.ʁɛ/	tuilerait /tɥil.ʁɛ/	tuilerions /tɥi.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	tuileriez /tɥi.lə.ʁje/	tuileraient /tɥil.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	tuile /tɥil/	tuiles /tɥil/	tuile /tɥil/	tuilions /tɥi.ljɔ̃/	tuiliez /tɥi.lje/	tuilent /tɥil/
	imperfect2	tuilasse /tɥi.las/	tuilasses /tɥi.las/	tuilât /tɥi.la/	tuilassions /tɥi.la.sjɔ̃/	tuilassiez /tɥi.la.sje/	tuilassent /tɥi.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tuile /tɥil/	—	tuilons /tɥi.lɔ̃/	tuilez /tɥi.le/	—
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).

Derived terms

• tuilage

Further reading

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