tortiller

French

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *tortiliāre, from Latin tortilis, or alternatively a regressive derivation of entortiller. Compare Italian tortigliare, attortigliare, attortigliato, Spanish retortijar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔʁ.ti.je/

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Verb

tortiller

1. (transitive) to twist, twirl
2. (reflexive) to wriggle, squirm, writhe

Conjugation

Conjugation of tortiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tortiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tortillant /tɔʁ.ti.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tortillé /tɔʁ.ti.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tortille /tɔʁ.tij/	tortilles /tɔʁ.tij/	tortille /tɔʁ.tij/	tortillons /tɔʁ.ti.jɔ̃/	tortillez /tɔʁ.ti.je/	tortillent /tɔʁ.tij/
	imperfect	tortillais /tɔʁ.ti.jɛ/	tortillais /tɔʁ.ti.jɛ/	tortillait /tɔʁ.ti.jɛ/	tortillions /tɔʁ.tij.jɔ̃/	tortilliez /tɔʁ.tij.je/	tortillaient /tɔʁ.ti.jɛ/
	past historic2	tortillai /tɔʁ.ti.je/	tortillas /tɔʁ.ti.ja/	tortilla /tɔʁ.ti.ja/	tortillâmes /tɔʁ.ti.jam/	tortillâtes /tɔʁ.ti.jat/	tortillèrent /tɔʁ.ti.jɛʁ/
	future	tortillerai /tɔʁ.tij.ʁe/	tortilleras /tɔʁ.tij.ʁa/	tortillera /tɔʁ.tij.ʁa/	tortillerons /tɔʁ.tij.ʁɔ̃/	tortillerez /tɔʁ.tij.ʁe/	tortilleront /tɔʁ.tij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tortillerais /tɔʁ.tij.ʁɛ/	tortillerais /tɔʁ.tij.ʁɛ/	tortillerait /tɔʁ.tij.ʁɛ/	tortillerions /tɔʁ.ti.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	tortilleriez /tɔʁ.ti.jə.ʁje/	tortilleraient /tɔʁ.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	tortille /tɔʁ.tij/	tortilles /tɔʁ.tij/	tortille /tɔʁ.tij/	tortillions /tɔʁ.tij.jɔ̃/	tortilliez /tɔʁ.tij.je/	tortillent /tɔʁ.tij/
	imperfect2	tortillasse /tɔʁ.ti.jas/	tortillasses /tɔʁ.ti.jas/	tortillât /tɔʁ.ti.ja/	tortillassions /tɔʁ.ti.ja.sjɔ̃/	tortillassiez /tɔʁ.ti.ja.sje/	tortillassent /tɔʁ.ti.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tortille /tɔʁ.tij/	—	tortillons /tɔʁ.ti.jɔ̃/	tortillez /tɔʁ.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).

Related terms

• entortiller

Further reading

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