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fourmiller
fourmiller
French
Verb
fourmiller
- to swarm, to be full of
- 1877, Maurice Rollinat, “Le Champ de chardons”, in Dans les brandes, poèmes et rondels:
- Le champ fourmille de chardons : / Quel paradis pour le vieil âne !
- The field is swarming with thistles: / What a paradise for the old donkey!
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- to tingle
Conjugation
Conjugation of fourmiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | fourmiller | avoir fourmillé | |||||
| gerund | en fourmillant | en ayant fourmillé | |||||
| present participle | fourmillant /fuʁ.mi.jɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | fourmillé /fuʁ.mi.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 | fourmille /fuʁ.mij/ |
fourmilles /fuʁ.mij/ |
fourmille /fuʁ.mij/ |
fourmillons /fuʁ.mi.jɔ̃/ |
fourmillez /fuʁ.mi.je/ |
fourmillent /fuʁ.mij/ |
| imperfect | fourmillais /fuʁ.mi.jɛ/ |
fourmillais /fuʁ.mi.jɛ/ |
fourmillait /fuʁ.mi.jɛ/ |
fourmillions /fuʁ.mij.jɔ̃/ |
fourmilliez /fuʁ.mij.je/ |
fourmillaient /fuʁ.mi.jɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | fourmillai /fuʁ.mi.je/ |
fourmillas /fuʁ.mi.ja/ |
fourmilla /fuʁ.mi.ja/ |
fourmillâmes /fuʁ.mi.jam/ |
fourmillâtes /fuʁ.mi.jat/ |
fourmillèrent /fuʁ.mi.jɛʁ/ |
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| future | fourmillerai /fuʁ.mij.ʁe/ |
fourmilleras /fuʁ.mij.ʁa/ |
fourmillera /fuʁ.mij.ʁa/ |
fourmillerons /fuʁ.mij.ʁɔ̃/ |
fourmillerez /fuʁ.mij.ʁe/ |
fourmilleront /fuʁ.mij.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | fourmillerais /fuʁ.mij.ʁɛ/ |
fourmillerais /fuʁ.mij.ʁɛ/ |
fourmillerait /fuʁ.mij.ʁɛ/ |
fourmillerions /fuʁ.mi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
fourmilleriez /fuʁ.mi.jə.ʁje/ |
fourmilleraient /fuʁ.mij.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 | fourmille /fuʁ.mij/ |
fourmilles /fuʁ.mij/ |
fourmille /fuʁ.mij/ |
fourmillions /fuʁ.mij.jɔ̃/ |
fourmilliez /fuʁ.mij.je/ |
fourmillent /fuʁ.mij/ |
| imperfect1 |
fourmillasse /fuʁ.mi.jas/ |
fourmillasses /fuʁ.mi.jas/ |
fourmillât /fuʁ.mi.ja/ |
fourmillassions /fuʁ.mi.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
fourmillassiez /fuʁ.mi.ja.sje/ |
fourmillassent /fuʁ.mi.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 | – | |
| — | fourmille /fuʁ.mij/ |
— | fourmillons /fuʁ.mi.jɔ̃/ |
fourmillez /fuʁ.mi.je/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||