avitailler

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ vitaille +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.vi.ta.je/

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Verb

avitailler

1. (dated) to refuel
2. (dated) to restock, stock up
3. (dated) to victual

Conjugation

Conjugation of avitailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	avitailler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	avitaillant /a.vi.ta.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		avitaillé /a.vi.ta.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	avitaille /a.vi.taj/	avitailles /a.vi.taj/	avitaille /a.vi.taj/	avitaillons /a.vi.ta.jɔ̃/	avitaillez /a.vi.ta.je/	avitaillent /a.vi.taj/
	imperfect	avitaillais /a.vi.ta.jɛ/	avitaillais /a.vi.ta.jɛ/	avitaillait /a.vi.ta.jɛ/	avitaillions /a.vi.taj.jɔ̃/	avitailliez /a.vi.taj.je/	avitaillaient /a.vi.ta.jɛ/
	past historic2	avitaillai /a.vi.ta.je/	avitaillas /a.vi.ta.ja/	avitailla /a.vi.ta.ja/	avitaillâmes /a.vi.ta.jam/	avitaillâtes /a.vi.ta.jat/	avitaillèrent /a.vi.ta.jɛʁ/
	future	avitaillerai /a.vi.taj.ʁe/	avitailleras /a.vi.taj.ʁa/	avitaillera /a.vi.taj.ʁa/	avitaillerons /a.vi.taj.ʁɔ̃/	avitaillerez /a.vi.taj.ʁe/	avitailleront /a.vi.taj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	avitaillerais /a.vi.taj.ʁɛ/	avitaillerais /a.vi.taj.ʁɛ/	avitaillerait /a.vi.taj.ʁɛ/	avitaillerions /a.vi.ta.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	avitailleriez /a.vi.ta.jə.ʁje/	avitailleraient /a.vi.taj.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	avitaille /a.vi.taj/	avitailles /a.vi.taj/	avitaille /a.vi.taj/	avitaillions /a.vi.taj.jɔ̃/	avitailliez /a.vi.taj.je/	avitaillent /a.vi.taj/
	imperfect2	avitaillasse /a.vi.ta.jas/	avitaillasses /a.vi.ta.jas/	avitaillât /a.vi.ta.ja/	avitaillassions /a.vi.ta.ja.sjɔ̃/	avitaillassiez /a.vi.ta.ja.sje/	avitaillassent /a.vi.ta.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	avitaille /a.vi.taj/	—	avitaillons /a.vi.ta.jɔ̃/	avitaillez /a.vi.ta.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: 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

• avitaillement
• ravitailler

Further reading

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