jongler

French

Etymology

From an alteration of Old French jogler, from Latin joculārī, ioculārī, present active infinitive of ioculor, joculor, and influenced by Old French jangler (“to entertain”), itself from Frankish *jangalon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɔ̃.ɡle/

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Verb

jongler

1. to juggle
2. (dated) to entertain
3. (Louisiana) to think, to ponder
4. (Louisiana) to daydream

Conjugation

Conjugation of jongler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	jongler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	jonglant /ʒɔ̃.ɡlɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		jonglé /ʒɔ̃.ɡle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	jongle /ʒɔ̃ɡl/	jongles /ʒɔ̃ɡl/	jongle /ʒɔ̃ɡl/	jonglons /ʒɔ̃.ɡlɔ̃/	jonglez /ʒɔ̃.ɡle/	jonglent /ʒɔ̃ɡl/
	imperfect	jonglais /ʒɔ̃.ɡlɛ/	jonglais /ʒɔ̃.ɡlɛ/	jonglait /ʒɔ̃.ɡlɛ/	jonglions /ʒɔ̃.ɡli.jɔ̃/	jongliez /ʒɔ̃.ɡli.je/	jonglaient /ʒɔ̃.ɡlɛ/
	past historic2	jonglai /ʒɔ̃.ɡle/	jonglas /ʒɔ̃.ɡla/	jongla /ʒɔ̃.ɡla/	jonglâmes /ʒɔ̃.ɡlam/	jonglâtes /ʒɔ̃.ɡlat/	jonglèrent /ʒɔ̃.ɡlɛʁ/
	future	jonglerai /ʒɔ̃.ɡlə.ʁe/	jongleras /ʒɔ̃.ɡlə.ʁa/	jonglera /ʒɔ̃.ɡlə.ʁa/	jonglerons /ʒɔ̃.ɡlə.ʁɔ̃/	jonglerez /ʒɔ̃.ɡlə.ʁe/	jongleront /ʒɔ̃.ɡlə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	jonglerais /ʒɔ̃.ɡlə.ʁɛ/	jonglerais /ʒɔ̃.ɡlə.ʁɛ/	jonglerait /ʒɔ̃.ɡlə.ʁɛ/	jonglerions /ʒɔ̃.ɡlə.ʁjɔ̃/	jongleriez /ʒɔ̃.ɡlə.ʁje/	jongleraient /ʒɔ̃.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	jongle /ʒɔ̃ɡl/	jongles /ʒɔ̃ɡl/	jongle /ʒɔ̃ɡl/	jonglions /ʒɔ̃.ɡli.jɔ̃/	jongliez /ʒɔ̃.ɡli.je/	jonglent /ʒɔ̃ɡl/
	imperfect2	jonglasse /ʒɔ̃.ɡlas/	jonglasses /ʒɔ̃.ɡlas/	jonglât /ʒɔ̃.ɡla/	jonglassions /ʒɔ̃.ɡla.sjɔ̃/	jonglassiez /ʒɔ̃.ɡla.sje/	jonglassent /ʒɔ̃.ɡlas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	jongle /ʒɔ̃ɡl/	—	jonglons /ʒɔ̃.ɡlɔ̃/	jonglez /ʒɔ̃.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

• jongleur
• jonglage
• jonglerie

Further reading

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

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Noun

jongler m (plural jongleri)

1. juggler