tourbillonner

French

Etymology

tourbillon +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.ne/

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Verb

tourbillonner

1. (intransitive, of water) to swirl, whirl
2. (intransitive, of e.g. leaves) to twirl
3. (intransitive, of dancers) to twirl

Conjugation

Conjugation of tourbillonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	tourbillonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	tourbillonnant /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tourbillonné /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tourbillonne /tuʁ.bi.jɔn/	tourbillonnes /tuʁ.bi.jɔn/	tourbillonne /tuʁ.bi.jɔn/	tourbillonnons /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɔ̃/	tourbillonnez /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.ne/	tourbillonnent /tuʁ.bi.jɔn/
	imperfect	tourbillonnais /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɛ/	tourbillonnais /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɛ/	tourbillonnait /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɛ/	tourbillonnions /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.njɔ̃/	tourbillonniez /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nje/	tourbillonnaient /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	tourbillonnai /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.ne/	tourbillonnas /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.na/	tourbillonna /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.na/	tourbillonnâmes /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nam/	tourbillonnâtes /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nat/	tourbillonnèrent /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	tourbillonnerai /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.ʁe/	tourbillonneras /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.ʁa/	tourbillonnera /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.ʁa/	tourbillonnerons /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.ʁɔ̃/	tourbillonnerez /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.ʁe/	tourbillonneront /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tourbillonnerais /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.ʁɛ/	tourbillonnerais /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.ʁɛ/	tourbillonnerait /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.ʁɛ/	tourbillonnerions /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	tourbillonneriez /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nə.ʁje/	tourbillonneraient /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.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	tourbillonne /tuʁ.bi.jɔn/	tourbillonnes /tuʁ.bi.jɔn/	tourbillonne /tuʁ.bi.jɔn/	tourbillonnions /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.njɔ̃/	tourbillonniez /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nje/	tourbillonnent /tuʁ.bi.jɔn/
	imperfect2	tourbillonnasse /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nas/	tourbillonnasses /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nas/	tourbillonnât /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.na/	tourbillonnassions /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	tourbillonnassiez /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.na.sje/	tourbillonnassent /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	tourbillonne /tuʁ.bi.jɔn/	—	tourbillonnons /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɔ̃/	tourbillonnez /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.ne/	—
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).

Further reading

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