driller

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɪlɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

English drill

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzijos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English driller

From drill (verb) + -er.

Noun

driller (plural drillers)

1. One who drills.
2. A person in charge of a drilling rig.

Derived terms

• directional driller

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

English drill

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzijos

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English driller

From drill (noun) + -er.

Noun

driller (plural drillers)

1. A performer of drill music.

Anagrams

• redrill

Danish

Verb

driller

1. present of drille

French

Etymology

From English drill.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʁi.le/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Verb

driller

1. to drill (to instruct, to train, to coach)

Conjugation

Conjugation of driller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	driller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	drillant /dʁi.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		drillé /dʁi.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	drille /dʁil/	drilles /dʁil/	drille /dʁil/	drillons /dʁi.lɔ̃/	drillez /dʁi.le/	drillent /dʁil/
	imperfect	drillais /dʁi.lɛ/	drillais /dʁi.lɛ/	drillait /dʁi.lɛ/	drillions /dʁi.ljɔ̃/	drilliez /dʁi.lje/	drillaient /dʁi.lɛ/
	past historic2	drillai /dʁi.le/	drillas /dʁi.la/	drilla /dʁi.la/	drillâmes /dʁi.lam/	drillâtes /dʁi.lat/	drillèrent /dʁi.lɛʁ/
	future	drillerai /dʁil.ʁe/	drilleras /dʁil.ʁa/	drillera /dʁil.ʁa/	drillerons /dʁil.ʁɔ̃/	drillerez /dʁil.ʁe/	drilleront /dʁil.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	drillerais /dʁil.ʁɛ/	drillerais /dʁil.ʁɛ/	drillerait /dʁil.ʁɛ/	drillerions /dʁi.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	drilleriez /dʁi.lə.ʁje/	drilleraient /dʁil.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	drille /dʁil/	drilles /dʁil/	drille /dʁil/	drillions /dʁi.ljɔ̃/	drilliez /dʁi.lje/	drillent /dʁil/
	imperfect2	drillasse /dʁi.las/	drillasses /dʁi.las/	drillât /dʁi.la/	drillassions /dʁi.la.sjɔ̃/	drillassiez /dʁi.la.sje/	drillassent /dʁi.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	drille /dʁil/	—	drillons /dʁi.lɔ̃/	drillez /dʁi.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).

Related terms

• drill

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

driller

1. present of drille