tintinnabuler

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.le/

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Verb

tintinnabuler

1. to tintinnabulate

Conjugation

Conjugation of tintinnabuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tintinnabuler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tintinnabulant /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tintinnabulé /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tintinnabule /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl/	tintinnabules /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl/	tintinnabule /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl/	tintinnabulons /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.lɔ̃/	tintinnabulez /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.le/	tintinnabulent /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl/
	imperfect	tintinnabulais /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.lɛ/	tintinnabulais /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.lɛ/	tintinnabulait /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.lɛ/	tintinnabulions /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.ljɔ̃/	tintinnabuliez /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.lje/	tintinnabulaient /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.lɛ/
	past historic2	tintinnabulai /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.le/	tintinnabulas /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.la/	tintinnabula /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.la/	tintinnabulâmes /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.lam/	tintinnabulâtes /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.lat/	tintinnabulèrent /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.lɛʁ/
	future	tintinnabulerai /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl.ʁe/	tintinnabuleras /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl.ʁa/	tintinnabulera /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl.ʁa/	tintinnabulerons /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl.ʁɔ̃/	tintinnabulerez /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl.ʁe/	tintinnabuleront /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tintinnabulerais /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl.ʁɛ/	tintinnabulerais /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl.ʁɛ/	tintinnabulerait /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl.ʁɛ/	tintinnabulerions /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	tintinnabuleriez /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.lə.ʁje/	tintinnabuleraient /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl.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	tintinnabule /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl/	tintinnabules /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl/	tintinnabule /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl/	tintinnabulions /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.ljɔ̃/	tintinnabuliez /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.lje/	tintinnabulent /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl/
	imperfect2	tintinnabulasse /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.las/	tintinnabulasses /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.las/	tintinnabulât /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.la/	tintinnabulassions /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.la.sjɔ̃/	tintinnabulassiez /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.la.sje/	tintinnabulassent /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tintinnabule /tɛ̃.ti.na.byl/	—	tintinnabulons /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.lɔ̃/	tintinnabulez /tɛ̃.ti.na.by.le/	—
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).

Further reading

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