fourmiller
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French formiier (with the suffix -iller, from Latin -iculāre), from Latin formīcāre. Cf. also Italian formicolare, Spanish hormiguear.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fuʁ.mi.je/
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- Homophones: fourmillai, fourmillé, fourmillée, fourmillées, fourmillés, fourmillez
Verb
fourmiller
- to swarm, to be full of
- 1877, Maurice Rollinat, “Le Champ de chardons”, in Dans les brandes, poèmes et rondels:
- Le champ fourmille de chardons : / Quel paradis pour le vieil âne !
- The field is swarming with thistles: / What a paradise for the old donkey!
- to tingle
Conjugation
Conjugation of fourmiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | fourmiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | fourmillant /fuʁ.mi.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | fourmillé /fuʁ.mi.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | fourmille /fuʁ.mij/ |
fourmilles /fuʁ.mij/ |
fourmille /fuʁ.mij/ |
fourmillons /fuʁ.mi.jɔ̃/ |
fourmillez /fuʁ.mi.je/ |
fourmillent /fuʁ.mij/ |
| imperfect | fourmillais /fuʁ.mi.jɛ/ |
fourmillais /fuʁ.mi.jɛ/ |
fourmillait /fuʁ.mi.jɛ/ |
fourmillions /fuʁ.mij.jɔ̃/ |
fourmilliez /fuʁ.mij.je/ |
fourmillaient /fuʁ.mi.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | fourmillai /fuʁ.mi.je/ |
fourmillas /fuʁ.mi.ja/ |
fourmilla /fuʁ.mi.ja/ |
fourmillâmes /fuʁ.mi.jam/ |
fourmillâtes /fuʁ.mi.jat/ |
fourmillèrent /fuʁ.mi.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | fourmillerai /fuʁ.mij.ʁe/ |
fourmilleras /fuʁ.mij.ʁa/ |
fourmillera /fuʁ.mij.ʁa/ |
fourmillerons /fuʁ.mij.ʁɔ̃/ |
fourmillerez /fuʁ.mij.ʁe/ |
fourmilleront /fuʁ.mij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | fourmillerais /fuʁ.mij.ʁɛ/ |
fourmillerais /fuʁ.mij.ʁɛ/ |
fourmillerait /fuʁ.mij.ʁɛ/ |
fourmillerions /fuʁ.mi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fourmilleriez /fuʁ.mi.jə.ʁje/ |
fourmilleraient /fuʁ.mij.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 | fourmille /fuʁ.mij/ |
fourmilles /fuʁ.mij/ |
fourmille /fuʁ.mij/ |
fourmillions /fuʁ.mij.jɔ̃/ |
fourmilliez /fuʁ.mij.je/ |
fourmillent /fuʁ.mij/ |
| imperfect2 | fourmillasse /fuʁ.mi.jas/ |
fourmillasses /fuʁ.mi.jas/ |
fourmillât /fuʁ.mi.ja/ |
fourmillassions /fuʁ.mi.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
fourmillassiez /fuʁ.mi.ja.sje/ |
fourmillassent /fuʁ.mi.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | fourmille /fuʁ.mij/ |
— | fourmillons /fuʁ.mi.jɔ̃/ |
fourmillez /fuʁ.mi.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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “fourmiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.