ciller
French
Pronunciation
Verb
ciller
- to blink
- to bat an eyelash
Conjugation
Conjugation of ciller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ciller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cillant /si.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cillé /si.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cille /sij/ |
cilles /sij/ |
cille /sij/ |
cillons /si.jɔ̃/ |
cillez /si.je/ |
cillent /sij/ |
| imperfect | cillais /si.jɛ/ |
cillais /si.jɛ/ |
cillait /si.jɛ/ |
cillions /sij.jɔ̃/ |
cilliez /sij.je/ |
cillaient /si.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cillai /si.je/ |
cillas /si.ja/ |
cilla /si.ja/ |
cillâmes /si.jam/ |
cillâtes /si.jat/ |
cillèrent /si.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | cillerai /sij.ʁe/ |
cilleras /sij.ʁa/ |
cillera /sij.ʁa/ |
cillerons /sij.ʁɔ̃/ |
cillerez /sij.ʁe/ |
cilleront /sij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cillerais /sij.ʁɛ/ |
cillerais /sij.ʁɛ/ |
cillerait /sij.ʁɛ/ |
cillerions /si.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cilleriez /si.jə.ʁje/ |
cilleraient /sij.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 | cille /sij/ |
cilles /sij/ |
cille /sij/ |
cillions /sij.jɔ̃/ |
cilliez /sij.je/ |
cillent /sij/ |
| imperfect2 | cillasse /si.jas/ |
cillasses /si.jas/ |
cillât /si.ja/ |
cillassions /si.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
cillassiez /si.ja.sje/ |
cillassent /si.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cille /sij/ |
— | cillons /si.jɔ̃/ |
cillez /si.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). | |||||||
Related terms
See also
Further reading
- “ciller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.