rimailler

French

Etymology

From rimaille +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

rimailler

1. to rhyme badly (create doggerel)

Conjugation

Conjugation of rimailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	rimailler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	rimaillant /ʁi.ma.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		rimaillé /ʁi.ma.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	rimaille /ʁi.maj/	rimailles /ʁi.maj/	rimaille /ʁi.maj/	rimaillons /ʁi.ma.jɔ̃/	rimaillez /ʁi.ma.je/	rimaillent /ʁi.maj/
	imperfect	rimaillais /ʁi.ma.jɛ/	rimaillais /ʁi.ma.jɛ/	rimaillait /ʁi.ma.jɛ/	rimaillions /ʁi.maj.jɔ̃/	rimailliez /ʁi.maj.je/	rimaillaient /ʁi.ma.jɛ/
	past historic2	rimaillai /ʁi.ma.je/	rimaillas /ʁi.ma.ja/	rimailla /ʁi.ma.ja/	rimaillâmes /ʁi.ma.jam/	rimaillâtes /ʁi.ma.jat/	rimaillèrent /ʁi.ma.jɛʁ/
	future	rimaillerai /ʁi.maj.ʁe/	rimailleras /ʁi.maj.ʁa/	rimaillera /ʁi.maj.ʁa/	rimaillerons /ʁi.maj.ʁɔ̃/	rimaillerez /ʁi.maj.ʁe/	rimailleront /ʁi.maj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	rimaillerais /ʁi.maj.ʁɛ/	rimaillerais /ʁi.maj.ʁɛ/	rimaillerait /ʁi.maj.ʁɛ/	rimaillerions /ʁi.ma.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	rimailleriez /ʁi.ma.jə.ʁje/	rimailleraient /ʁi.maj.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	rimaille /ʁi.maj/	rimailles /ʁi.maj/	rimaille /ʁi.maj/	rimaillions /ʁi.maj.jɔ̃/	rimailliez /ʁi.maj.je/	rimaillent /ʁi.maj/
	imperfect2	rimaillasse /ʁi.ma.jas/	rimaillasses /ʁi.ma.jas/	rimaillât /ʁi.ma.ja/	rimaillassions /ʁi.ma.ja.sjɔ̃/	rimaillassiez /ʁi.ma.ja.sje/	rimaillassent /ʁi.ma.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	rimaille /ʁi.maj/	—	rimaillons /ʁi.ma.jɔ̃/	rimaillez /ʁi.ma.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).

Derived terms

• rimaillerie
• rimailleur

Further reading

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