zigouiller
French
Etymology
Originally a dialectal word meaning “to cut something with a bad knife”, from zigue-zigue (“bad knife”), ultimately onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zi.ɡu.je/
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Verb
zigouiller
Conjugation
Conjugation of zigouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | zigouiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | zigouillant /zi.ɡu.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | zigouillé /zi.ɡu.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | zigouille /zi.ɡuj/ |
zigouilles /zi.ɡuj/ |
zigouille /zi.ɡuj/ |
zigouillons /zi.ɡu.jɔ̃/ |
zigouillez /zi.ɡu.je/ |
zigouillent /zi.ɡuj/ |
| imperfect | zigouillais /zi.ɡu.jɛ/ |
zigouillais /zi.ɡu.jɛ/ |
zigouillait /zi.ɡu.jɛ/ |
zigouillions /zi.ɡuj.jɔ̃/ |
zigouilliez /zi.ɡuj.je/ |
zigouillaient /zi.ɡu.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | zigouillai /zi.ɡu.je/ |
zigouillas /zi.ɡu.ja/ |
zigouilla /zi.ɡu.ja/ |
zigouillâmes /zi.ɡu.jam/ |
zigouillâtes /zi.ɡu.jat/ |
zigouillèrent /zi.ɡu.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | zigouillerai /zi.ɡuj.ʁe/ |
zigouilleras /zi.ɡuj.ʁa/ |
zigouillera /zi.ɡuj.ʁa/ |
zigouillerons /zi.ɡuj.ʁɔ̃/ |
zigouillerez /zi.ɡuj.ʁe/ |
zigouilleront /zi.ɡuj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | zigouillerais /zi.ɡuj.ʁɛ/ |
zigouillerais /zi.ɡuj.ʁɛ/ |
zigouillerait /zi.ɡuj.ʁɛ/ |
zigouillerions /zi.ɡu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
zigouilleriez /zi.ɡu.jə.ʁje/ |
zigouilleraient /zi.ɡuj.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 | zigouille /zi.ɡuj/ |
zigouilles /zi.ɡuj/ |
zigouille /zi.ɡuj/ |
zigouillions /zi.ɡuj.jɔ̃/ |
zigouilliez /zi.ɡuj.je/ |
zigouillent /zi.ɡuj/ |
| imperfect2 | zigouillasse /zi.ɡu.jas/ |
zigouillasses /zi.ɡu.jas/ |
zigouillât /zi.ɡu.ja/ |
zigouillassions /zi.ɡu.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
zigouillassiez /zi.ɡu.ja.sje/ |
zigouillassent /zi.ɡu.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | zigouille /zi.ɡuj/ |
— | zigouillons /zi.ɡu.jɔ̃/ |
zigouillez /zi.ɡu.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “zigouiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.