torpiller

French

Etymology

torpille +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔʁ.pi.je/

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Verb

torpiller

1. (transitive) to torpedo (attack with a torpedo)

Conjugation

Conjugation of torpiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	torpiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	torpillant /tɔʁ.pi.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		torpillé /tɔʁ.pi.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	torpille /tɔʁ.pij/	torpilles /tɔʁ.pij/	torpille /tɔʁ.pij/	torpillons /tɔʁ.pi.jɔ̃/	torpillez /tɔʁ.pi.je/	torpillent /tɔʁ.pij/
	imperfect	torpillais /tɔʁ.pi.jɛ/	torpillais /tɔʁ.pi.jɛ/	torpillait /tɔʁ.pi.jɛ/	torpillions /tɔʁ.pij.jɔ̃/	torpilliez /tɔʁ.pij.je/	torpillaient /tɔʁ.pi.jɛ/
	past historic2	torpillai /tɔʁ.pi.je/	torpillas /tɔʁ.pi.ja/	torpilla /tɔʁ.pi.ja/	torpillâmes /tɔʁ.pi.jam/	torpillâtes /tɔʁ.pi.jat/	torpillèrent /tɔʁ.pi.jɛʁ/
	future	torpillerai /tɔʁ.pij.ʁe/	torpilleras /tɔʁ.pij.ʁa/	torpillera /tɔʁ.pij.ʁa/	torpillerons /tɔʁ.pij.ʁɔ̃/	torpillerez /tɔʁ.pij.ʁe/	torpilleront /tɔʁ.pij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	torpillerais /tɔʁ.pij.ʁɛ/	torpillerais /tɔʁ.pij.ʁɛ/	torpillerait /tɔʁ.pij.ʁɛ/	torpillerions /tɔʁ.pi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	torpilleriez /tɔʁ.pi.jə.ʁje/	torpilleraient /tɔʁ.pij.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	torpille /tɔʁ.pij/	torpilles /tɔʁ.pij/	torpille /tɔʁ.pij/	torpillions /tɔʁ.pij.jɔ̃/	torpilliez /tɔʁ.pij.je/	torpillent /tɔʁ.pij/
	imperfect2	torpillasse /tɔʁ.pi.jas/	torpillasses /tɔʁ.pi.jas/	torpillât /tɔʁ.pi.ja/	torpillassions /tɔʁ.pi.ja.sjɔ̃/	torpillassiez /tɔʁ.pi.ja.sje/	torpillassent /tɔʁ.pi.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	torpille /tɔʁ.pij/	—	torpillons /tɔʁ.pi.jɔ̃/	torpillez /tɔʁ.pi.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).

Related terms

• torpilleur

Further reading

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