tenailler
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tenailler
- (transitive) to torture with pincers
- (transitive) to torment
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of tenailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tenailler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tenaillant /tə.na.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tenaillé /tə.na.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tenaille /tə.naj/ |
tenailles /tə.naj/ |
tenaille /tə.naj/ |
tenaillons /tə.na.jɔ̃/ |
tenaillez /tə.na.je/ |
tenaillent /tə.naj/ |
| imperfect | tenaillais /tə.na.jɛ/ |
tenaillais /tə.na.jɛ/ |
tenaillait /tə.na.jɛ/ |
tenaillions /tə.naj.jɔ̃/ |
tenailliez /tə.naj.je/ |
tenaillaient /tə.na.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tenaillai /tə.na.je/ |
tenaillas /tə.na.ja/ |
tenailla /tə.na.ja/ |
tenaillâmes /tə.na.jam/ |
tenaillâtes /tə.na.jat/ |
tenaillèrent /tə.na.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | tenaillerai /tə.naj.ʁe/ |
tenailleras /tə.naj.ʁa/ |
tenaillera /tə.naj.ʁa/ |
tenaillerons /tə.naj.ʁɔ̃/ |
tenaillerez /tə.naj.ʁe/ |
tenailleront /tə.naj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tenaillerais /tə.naj.ʁɛ/ |
tenaillerais /tə.naj.ʁɛ/ |
tenaillerait /tə.naj.ʁɛ/ |
tenaillerions /tə.na.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tenailleriez /tə.na.jə.ʁje/ |
tenailleraient /tə.naj.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 | tenaille /tə.naj/ |
tenailles /tə.naj/ |
tenaille /tə.naj/ |
tenaillions /tə.naj.jɔ̃/ |
tenailliez /tə.naj.je/ |
tenaillent /tə.naj/ |
| imperfect2 | tenaillasse /tə.na.jas/ |
tenaillasses /tə.na.jas/ |
tenaillât /tə.na.ja/ |
tenaillassions /tə.na.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
tenaillassiez /tə.na.ja.sje/ |
tenaillassent /tə.na.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tenaille /tə.naj/ |
— | tenaillons /tə.na.jɔ̃/ |
tenaillez /tə.na.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
[edit]- “tenailler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.