frétiller

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French froitier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁe.ti.je/

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Verb

frétiller

1. (intransitive) to wriggle
2. (intransitive) to wag (of a tail)

Conjugation

Conjugation of frétiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	frétiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	frétillant /fʁe.ti.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		frétillé /fʁe.ti.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	frétille /fʁe.tij/	frétilles /fʁe.tij/	frétille /fʁe.tij/	frétillons /fʁe.ti.jɔ̃/	frétillez /fʁe.ti.je/	frétillent /fʁe.tij/
	imperfect	frétillais /fʁe.ti.jɛ/	frétillais /fʁe.ti.jɛ/	frétillait /fʁe.ti.jɛ/	frétillions /fʁe.tij.jɔ̃/	frétilliez /fʁe.tij.je/	frétillaient /fʁe.ti.jɛ/
	past historic2	frétillai /fʁe.ti.je/	frétillas /fʁe.ti.ja/	frétilla /fʁe.ti.ja/	frétillâmes /fʁe.ti.jam/	frétillâtes /fʁe.ti.jat/	frétillèrent /fʁe.ti.jɛʁ/
	future	frétillerai /fʁe.tij.ʁe/	frétilleras /fʁe.tij.ʁa/	frétillera /fʁe.tij.ʁa/	frétillerons /fʁe.tij.ʁɔ̃/	frétillerez /fʁe.tij.ʁe/	frétilleront /fʁe.tij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	frétillerais /fʁe.tij.ʁɛ/	frétillerais /fʁe.tij.ʁɛ/	frétillerait /fʁe.tij.ʁɛ/	frétillerions /fʁe.ti.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	frétilleriez /fʁe.ti.jə.ʁje/	frétilleraient /fʁe.tij.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	frétille /fʁe.tij/	frétilles /fʁe.tij/	frétille /fʁe.tij/	frétillions /fʁe.tij.jɔ̃/	frétilliez /fʁe.tij.je/	frétillent /fʁe.tij/
	imperfect2	frétillasse /fʁe.ti.jas/	frétillasses /fʁe.ti.jas/	frétillât /fʁe.ti.ja/	frétillassions /fʁe.ti.ja.sjɔ̃/	frétillassiez /fʁe.ti.ja.sje/	frétillassent /fʁe.ti.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	frétille /fʁe.tij/	—	frétillons /fʁe.ti.jɔ̃/	frétillez /fʁe.ti.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: 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).

Further reading

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