toiler

English

Etymology

toil +‎ -er.

Noun

toiler (plural toilers)

1. A person who toils or labors.
   • 1929, Alexander Berkman, chapter 3, in Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism, New York: Vanguard Press, →OCLC:

     Every workingman in your city, every toiler in your country, in every country, in the whole world, is exploited and enslaved the same as you are.

Anagrams

• Loiret, loiter, triole

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French

Etymology

From toile +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twa.le/

Verb

toiler

1. to cover with cloth
2. (nautical) to extent the sail of a watercraft

Conjugation

Conjugation of toiler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	toiler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	toilant /twa.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		toilé /twa.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	toile /twal/	toiles /twal/	toile /twal/	toilons /twa.lɔ̃/	toilez /twa.le/	toilent /twal/
	imperfect	toilais /twa.lɛ/	toilais /twa.lɛ/	toilait /twa.lɛ/	toilions /twa.ljɔ̃/	toiliez /twa.lje/	toilaient /twa.lɛ/
	past historic2	toilai /twa.le/	toilas /twa.la/	toila /twa.la/	toilâmes /twa.lam/	toilâtes /twa.lat/	toilèrent /twa.lɛʁ/
	future	toilerai /twal.ʁe/	toileras /twal.ʁa/	toilera /twal.ʁa/	toilerons /twal.ʁɔ̃/	toilerez /twal.ʁe/	toileront /twal.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	toilerais /twal.ʁɛ/	toilerais /twal.ʁɛ/	toilerait /twal.ʁɛ/	toilerions /twa.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	toileriez /twa.lə.ʁje/	toileraient /twal.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	toile /twal/	toiles /twal/	toile /twal/	toilions /twa.ljɔ̃/	toiliez /twa.lje/	toilent /twal/
	imperfect2	toilasse /twa.las/	toilasses /twa.las/	toilât /twa.la/	toilassions /twa.la.sjɔ̃/	toilassiez /twa.la.sje/	toilassent /twa.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	toile /twal/	—	toilons /twa.lɔ̃/	toilez /twa.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).

Anagrams

• orteil