triller

English

A 19th-century watercolour of a pied triller (Lalage nigra) flying near a durian tree (Durio zibethinus), from the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings, National Museum of Singapore

Wikispecies

Etymology

From trill +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)

Noun

triller (plural trillers)

1. A small passerine bird of the genus Lalage belonging to the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae, so called because of the loud trilling calls of the male birds.
2. One who or that which trills.
3. A musical ornament consisting of a rapid alternation between two adjacent notes.
   • 2010, Michel Debost, The Simple Flute: From A-Z, page 255:

     When the left hand is the triller, it might seem more difficult to stabilize with the right, which is mostly off the flute.

Anagrams

• Terrill, Tirrell

Dutch

Noun

triller m (plural trillers, diminutive trillertje n)

1. trill

French

Etymology

From trille +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

triller

1. to trill

Conjugation

Conjugation of triller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	triller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trillant /tʁi.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trillé /tʁi.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trille /tʁij/	trilles /tʁij/	trille /tʁij/	trillons /tʁi.jɔ̃/	trillez /tʁi.je/	trillent /tʁij/
	imperfect	trillais /tʁi.jɛ/	trillais /tʁi.jɛ/	trillait /tʁi.jɛ/	trillions /tʁij.jɔ̃/	trilliez /tʁij.je/	trillaient /tʁi.jɛ/
	past historic2	trillai /tʁi.je/	trillas /tʁi.ja/	trilla /tʁi.ja/	trillâmes /tʁi.jam/	trillâtes /tʁi.jat/	trillèrent /tʁi.jɛʁ/
	future	trillerai /tʁij.ʁe/	trilleras /tʁij.ʁa/	trillera /tʁij.ʁa/	trillerons /tʁij.ʁɔ̃/	trillerez /tʁij.ʁe/	trilleront /tʁij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trillerais /tʁij.ʁɛ/	trillerais /tʁij.ʁɛ/	trillerait /tʁij.ʁɛ/	trillerions /tʁi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	trilleriez /tʁi.jə.ʁje/	trilleraient /tʁij.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	trille /tʁij/	trilles /tʁij/	trille /tʁij/	trillions /tʁij.jɔ̃/	trilliez /tʁij.je/	trillent /tʁij/
	imperfect2	trillasse /tʁi.jas/	trillasses /tʁi.jas/	trillât /tʁi.ja/	trillassions /tʁi.ja.sjɔ̃/	trillassiez /tʁi.ja.sje/	trillassent /tʁi.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trille /tʁij/	—	trillons /tʁi.jɔ̃/	trillez /tʁi.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).

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

triller m or f

1. indefinite plural of trille

Verb

triller

1. present of trille