merdailler
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]merdailler
- (vulgar, Louisiana) to do nothing, to waste time
- Arrête donc de merdailler là-bas et viens faire quelque chose.
- So stop fucking around down there and come do something.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of merdailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | merdailler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | merdaillant /mɛʁ.da.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | merdaillé /mɛʁ.da.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | merdaille /mɛʁ.daj/ |
merdailles /mɛʁ.daj/ |
merdaille /mɛʁ.daj/ |
merdaillons /mɛʁ.da.jɔ̃/ |
merdaillez /mɛʁ.da.je/ |
merdaillent /mɛʁ.daj/ |
| imperfect | merdaillais /mɛʁ.da.jɛ/ |
merdaillais /mɛʁ.da.jɛ/ |
merdaillait /mɛʁ.da.jɛ/ |
merdaillions /mɛʁ.daj.jɔ̃/ |
merdailliez /mɛʁ.daj.je/ |
merdaillaient /mɛʁ.da.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | merdaillai /mɛʁ.da.je/ |
merdaillas /mɛʁ.da.ja/ |
merdailla /mɛʁ.da.ja/ |
merdaillâmes /mɛʁ.da.jam/ |
merdaillâtes /mɛʁ.da.jat/ |
merdaillèrent /mɛʁ.da.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | merdaillerai /mɛʁ.daj.ʁe/ |
merdailleras /mɛʁ.daj.ʁa/ |
merdaillera /mɛʁ.daj.ʁa/ |
merdaillerons /mɛʁ.daj.ʁɔ̃/ |
merdaillerez /mɛʁ.daj.ʁe/ |
merdailleront /mɛʁ.daj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | merdaillerais /mɛʁ.daj.ʁɛ/ |
merdaillerais /mɛʁ.daj.ʁɛ/ |
merdaillerait /mɛʁ.daj.ʁɛ/ |
merdaillerions /mɛʁ.da.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
merdailleriez /mɛʁ.da.jə.ʁje/ |
merdailleraient /mɛʁ.daj.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 | merdaille /mɛʁ.daj/ |
merdailles /mɛʁ.daj/ |
merdaille /mɛʁ.daj/ |
merdaillions /mɛʁ.daj.jɔ̃/ |
merdailliez /mɛʁ.daj.je/ |
merdaillent /mɛʁ.daj/ |
| imperfect2 | merdaillasse /mɛʁ.da.jas/ |
merdaillasses /mɛʁ.da.jas/ |
merdaillât /mɛʁ.da.ja/ |
merdaillassions /mɛʁ.da.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
merdaillassiez /mɛʁ.da.ja.sje/ |
merdaillassent /mɛʁ.da.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | merdaille /mɛʁ.daj/ |
— | merdaillons /mɛʁ.da.jɔ̃/ |
merdaillez /mɛʁ.da.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
[edit]References
[edit]- Pierre Guiraud, Les Gros Mots, collection Que sais-je ?, Presses universitaires de France, Paris, 1975