vriller

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French

Etymology

From vrille +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vʁi.je/
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Verb

vriller

  1. (intransitive) to spiral; to spin
  2. (transitive) to twist; to roll up; to wrap up
    Il vrille un cordon de soie. ― He is twisting a silk cord.
  3. (transitive) to gimlet; to bore; to pierce
  4. (transitive, figurative) to torment; to penetrate painfully
    un son qui me vrille le tympan ― a sound that tears through my eardrums
    • 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 2, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
      Le son est si insupportable que la foule se vrille de douleur, avant de fuir s’abriter, en titubant. Les salauds !
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  5. (transitive) to stare piercingly
  6. (colloquial) to break down

Conjugation

Conjugation of vriller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple vriller
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple vrillant
/vʁi.jɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle vrillé
/vʁi.je/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present vrille
/vʁij/ 		vrilles
/vʁij/ 		vrille
/vʁij/ 		vrillons
/vʁi.jɔ̃/ 		vrillez
/vʁi.je/ 		vrillent
/vʁij/
imperfect vrillais
/vʁi.jɛ/ 		vrillais
/vʁi.jɛ/ 		vrillait
/vʁi.jɛ/ 		vrillions
/vʁij.jɔ̃/ 		vrilliez
/vʁij.je/ 		vrillaient
/vʁi.jɛ/
past historic2 vrillai
/vʁi.je/ 		vrillas
/vʁi.ja/ 		vrilla
/vʁi.ja/ 		vrillâmes
/vʁi.jam/ 		vrillâtes
/vʁi.jat/ 		vrillèrent
/vʁi.jɛʁ/
future vrillerai
/vʁij.ʁe/ 		vrilleras
/vʁij.ʁa/ 		vrillera
/vʁij.ʁa/ 		vrillerons
/vʁij.ʁɔ̃/ 		vrillerez
/vʁij.ʁe/ 		vrilleront
/vʁij.ʁɔ̃/
conditional vrillerais
/vʁij.ʁɛ/ 		vrillerais
/vʁij.ʁɛ/ 		vrillerait
/vʁij.ʁɛ/ 		vrillerions
/vʁi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		vrilleriez
/vʁi.jə.ʁje/ 		vrilleraient
/vʁij.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 vrille
/vʁij/ 		vrilles
/vʁij/ 		vrille
/vʁij/ 		vrillions
/vʁij.jɔ̃/ 		vrilliez
/vʁij.je/ 		vrillent
/vʁij/
imperfect2 vrillasse
/vʁi.jas/ 		vrillasses
/vʁi.jas/ 		vrillât
/vʁi.ja/ 		vrillassions
/vʁi.ja.sjɔ̃/ 		vrillassiez
/vʁi.ja.sje/ 		vrillassent
/vʁi.jas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — vrille
/vʁij/ 		— vrillons
/vʁi.jɔ̃/ 		vrillez
/vʁi.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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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