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triller
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
Noun
triller (plural trillers)
- A small passerine bird of the genus Lalage belonging to the cuckoo-shrike family Campephagidae, so called because of the loud trilling calls of the male birds.
French
Etymology
Verb
triller
- To trill
Conjugation
Conjugation of triller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | triller | avoir trillé | |||||
| gerund | en trillant | en ayant trillé | |||||
| present participle | trillant /tʁi.jɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | trillé /tʁi.je/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | trillai /tʁi.je/ |
trillas /tʁi.ja/ |
trilla /tʁi.ja/ |
trillâmes /tʁi.jam/ |
trillâtes /tʁi.jat/ |
trillèrent /tʁi.jɛʁ/ |
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| future | trillerai /tʁij.ʁe/ |
trilleras /tʁij.ʁa/ |
trillera /tʁij.ʁa/ |
trillerons /tʁij.ʁɔ̃/ |
trillerez /tʁij.ʁe/ |
trilleront /tʁij.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | trillerais /tʁij.ʁɛ/ |
trillerais /tʁij.ʁɛ/ |
trillerait /tʁij.ʁɛ/ |
trillerions /tʁi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
trilleriez /tʁi.jə.ʁje/ |
trilleraient /tʁij.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | trille /tʁij/ |
trilles /tʁij/ |
trille /tʁij/ |
trillions /tʁij.jɔ̃/ |
trilliez /tʁij.je/ |
trillent /tʁij/ |
| imperfect1 |
trillasse /tʁi.jas/ |
trillasses /tʁi.jas/ |
trillât /tʁi.ja/ |
trillassions /tʁi.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
trillassiez /tʁi.ja.sje/ |
trillassent /tʁi.jas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | trille /tʁij/ |
— | trillons /tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
trillez /tʁi.je/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||