vriller
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vʁi.je/
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Verb
vriller
- (intransitive) to spiral; to spin
- (transitive) to twist; to roll up; to wrap up
- Il vrille un cordon de soie. ― He is twisting a silk cord.
- (transitive) to gimlet; to bore; to pierce
- (transitive, figurative) to torment; to penetrate painfully
- un son qui me vrille le tympan ― a sound that tears through my eardrums
- 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 2, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
- Le son est si insupportable que la foule se vrille de douleur, avant de fuir s’abriter, en titubant. Les salauds !
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (transitive) to stare piercingly
- (colloquial) to break down
Conjugation
Conjugation of vriller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | vriller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | vrillant /vʁi.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | vrillé /vʁi.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | vrille /vʁij/ |
vrilles /vʁij/ |
vrille /vʁij/ |
vrillons /vʁi.jɔ̃/ |
vrillez /vʁi.je/ |
vrillent /vʁij/ |
| imperfect | vrillais /vʁi.jɛ/ |
vrillais /vʁi.jɛ/ |
vrillait /vʁi.jɛ/ |
vrillions /vʁij.jɔ̃/ |
vrilliez /vʁij.je/ |
vrillaient /vʁi.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | vrillai /vʁi.je/ |
vrillas /vʁi.ja/ |
vrilla /vʁi.ja/ |
vrillâmes /vʁi.jam/ |
vrillâtes /vʁi.jat/ |
vrillèrent /vʁi.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | vrillerai /vʁij.ʁe/ |
vrilleras /vʁij.ʁa/ |
vrillera /vʁij.ʁa/ |
vrillerons /vʁij.ʁɔ̃/ |
vrillerez /vʁij.ʁe/ |
vrilleront /vʁij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | vrillerais /vʁij.ʁɛ/ |
vrillerais /vʁij.ʁɛ/ |
vrillerait /vʁij.ʁɛ/ |
vrillerions /vʁi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vrilleriez /vʁi.jə.ʁje/ |
vrilleraient /vʁij.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 | vrille /vʁij/ |
vrilles /vʁij/ |
vrille /vʁij/ |
vrillions /vʁij.jɔ̃/ |
vrilliez /vʁij.je/ |
vrillent /vʁij/ |
| imperfect2 | vrillasse /vʁi.jas/ |
vrillasses /vʁi.jas/ |
vrillât /vʁi.ja/ |
vrillassions /vʁi.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
vrillassiez /vʁi.ja.sje/ |
vrillassent /vʁi.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | vrille /vʁij/ |
— | vrillons /vʁi.jɔ̃/ |
vrillez /vʁi.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “vriller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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