troller

English

Etymology

troll +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)

Noun

troller (plural trollers)

1. One who fishes by trolling.
2. An engine-powered fishing boat, used for moving slowly while fishing lines drag behind, sometimes able to sail in shallow water.
3. (Internet slang, nonstandard) A troll; a user who maliciously provokes others.

See also

• trawler

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French troller, of Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *truzlōną (“to lumber”), which is probably related to *trudaną (“to tread, step on”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɔ.le/

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Verb

troller

1. (hunting) to wander unsystematically about, looking for game
2. (Internet) to troll

Conjugation

Conjugation of troller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	troller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trollant /tʁɔ.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trollé /tʁɔ.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trolle /tʁɔl/	trolles /tʁɔl/	trolle /tʁɔl/	trollons /tʁɔ.lɔ̃/	trollez /tʁɔ.le/	trollent /tʁɔl/
	imperfect	trollais /tʁɔ.lɛ/	trollais /tʁɔ.lɛ/	trollait /tʁɔ.lɛ/	trollions /tʁɔ.ljɔ̃/	trolliez /tʁɔ.lje/	trollaient /tʁɔ.lɛ/
	past historic2	trollai /tʁɔ.le/	trollas /tʁɔ.la/	trolla /tʁɔ.la/	trollâmes /tʁɔ.lam/	trollâtes /tʁɔ.lat/	trollèrent /tʁɔ.lɛʁ/
	future	trollerai /tʁɔl.ʁe/	trolleras /tʁɔl.ʁa/	trollera /tʁɔl.ʁa/	trollerons /tʁɔl.ʁɔ̃/	trollerez /tʁɔl.ʁe/	trolleront /tʁɔl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trollerais /tʁɔl.ʁɛ/	trollerais /tʁɔl.ʁɛ/	trollerait /tʁɔl.ʁɛ/	trollerions /tʁɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	trolleriez /tʁɔ.lə.ʁje/	trolleraient /tʁɔl.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	trolle /tʁɔl/	trolles /tʁɔl/	trolle /tʁɔl/	trollions /tʁɔ.ljɔ̃/	trolliez /tʁɔ.lje/	trollent /tʁɔl/
	imperfect2	trollasse /tʁɔ.las/	trollasses /tʁɔ.las/	trollât /tʁɔ.la/	trollassions /tʁɔ.la.sjɔ̃/	trollassiez /tʁɔ.la.sje/	trollassent /tʁɔ.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trolle /tʁɔl/	—	trollons /tʁɔ.lɔ̃/	trollez /tʁɔ.le/	—
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).

References

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “tredan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 521

Further reading

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