écarquiller
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Etymology[edit]
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Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
écarquiller
- to open wide, to goggle
- 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 3, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
- […] et sous sa frimousse qui s’arrondit, à travers ses yeux émus de môme qu’il écarquille sans s’en rendre compte, quelque chose de scellé – d’enfoui profond, si profond…
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Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of écarquiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | écarquiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | écarquillant /e.kaʁ.ki.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | écarquillé /e.kaʁ.ki.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | écarquille /e.kaʁ.kij/ |
écarquilles /e.kaʁ.kij/ |
écarquille /e.kaʁ.kij/ |
écarquillons /e.kaʁ.ki.jɔ̃/ |
écarquillez /e.kaʁ.ki.je/ |
écarquillent /e.kaʁ.kij/ |
| imperfect | écarquillais /e.kaʁ.ki.jɛ/ |
écarquillais /e.kaʁ.ki.jɛ/ |
écarquillait /e.kaʁ.ki.jɛ/ |
écarquillions /e.kaʁ.kij.jɔ̃/ |
écarquilliez /e.kaʁ.kij.je/ |
écarquillaient /e.kaʁ.ki.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | écarquillai /e.kaʁ.ki.je/ |
écarquillas /e.kaʁ.ki.ja/ |
écarquilla /e.kaʁ.ki.ja/ |
écarquillâmes /e.kaʁ.ki.jam/ |
écarquillâtes /e.kaʁ.ki.jat/ |
écarquillèrent /e.kaʁ.ki.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | écarquillerai /e.kaʁ.kij.ʁe/ |
écarquilleras /e.kaʁ.kij.ʁa/ |
écarquillera /e.kaʁ.kij.ʁa/ |
écarquillerons /e.kaʁ.kij.ʁɔ̃/ |
écarquillerez /e.kaʁ.kij.ʁe/ |
écarquilleront /e.kaʁ.kij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | écarquillerais /e.kaʁ.kij.ʁɛ/ |
écarquillerais /e.kaʁ.kij.ʁɛ/ |
écarquillerait /e.kaʁ.kij.ʁɛ/ |
écarquillerions /e.kaʁ.ki.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
écarquilleriez /e.kaʁ.ki.jə.ʁje/ |
écarquilleraient /e.kaʁ.kij.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 | écarquille /e.kaʁ.kij/ |
écarquilles /e.kaʁ.kij/ |
écarquille /e.kaʁ.kij/ |
écarquillions /e.kaʁ.kij.jɔ̃/ |
écarquilliez /e.kaʁ.kij.je/ |
écarquillent /e.kaʁ.kij/ |
| imperfect2 | écarquillasse /e.kaʁ.ki.jas/ |
écarquillasses /e.kaʁ.ki.jas/ |
écarquillât /e.kaʁ.ki.ja/ |
écarquillassions /e.kaʁ.ki.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
écarquillassiez /e.kaʁ.ki.ja.sje/ |
écarquillassent /e.kaʁ.ki.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | écarquille /e.kaʁ.kij/ |
— | écarquillons /e.kaʁ.ki.jɔ̃/ |
écarquillez /e.kaʁ.ki.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading[edit]
- “écarquiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.