bigler

See also: Bigler

French

Etymology

From Middle French biscler, from Vulgar Latin *bisoculāre, a compound of bis (“twice”) and oculus (“eye”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bi.ɡle/

Verb

bigler

1. (intransitive, archaic) to squint, be cross-eyed
2. (transitive, slang) to glance (at)

Conjugation

Conjugation of bigler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bigler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	biglant /bi.ɡlɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		biglé /bi.ɡle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bigle /biɡl/	bigles /biɡl/	bigle /biɡl/	biglons /bi.ɡlɔ̃/	biglez /bi.ɡle/	biglent /biɡl/
	imperfect	biglais /bi.ɡlɛ/	biglais /bi.ɡlɛ/	biglait /bi.ɡlɛ/	biglions /bi.ɡli.jɔ̃/	bigliez /bi.ɡli.je/	biglaient /bi.ɡlɛ/
	past historic2	biglai /bi.ɡle/	biglas /bi.ɡla/	bigla /bi.ɡla/	biglâmes /bi.ɡlam/	biglâtes /bi.ɡlat/	biglèrent /bi.ɡlɛʁ/
	future	biglerai /bi.ɡlə.ʁe/	bigleras /bi.ɡlə.ʁa/	biglera /bi.ɡlə.ʁa/	biglerons /bi.ɡlə.ʁɔ̃/	biglerez /bi.ɡlə.ʁe/	bigleront /bi.ɡlə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	biglerais /bi.ɡlə.ʁɛ/	biglerais /bi.ɡlə.ʁɛ/	biglerait /bi.ɡlə.ʁɛ/	biglerions /bi.ɡlə.ʁjɔ̃/	bigleriez /bi.ɡlə.ʁje/	bigleraient /bi.ɡlə.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	bigle /biɡl/	bigles /biɡl/	bigle /biɡl/	biglions /bi.ɡli.jɔ̃/	bigliez /bi.ɡli.je/	biglent /biɡl/
	imperfect2	biglasse /bi.ɡlas/	biglasses /bi.ɡlas/	biglât /bi.ɡla/	biglassions /bi.ɡla.sjɔ̃/	biglassiez /bi.ɡla.sje/	biglassent /bi.ɡlas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bigle /biɡl/	—	biglons /bi.ɡlɔ̃/	biglez /bi.ɡle/	—
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).

Derived terms

• bigleux

Further reading

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