trimbaler

French

Alternative forms

• trimballer

Etymology

From an alteration of Old French tribaler (perhaps with influence from brimbaler or trimer), itself an expressive word probably formed on the basis of baller and tribo(u)ler; cf. also Latin tribulō, tribulāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɛ̃.ba.le/

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Verb

trimbaler

1. (transitive, colloquial) to drag
2. (transitive, colloquial) to lug, lug around, cart
3. (transitive, colloquial) to have in mind
4. (transitive, colloquial) to run ragged

Conjugation

Conjugation of trimbaler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	trimbaler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trimbalant /tʁɛ̃.ba.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trimbalé /tʁɛ̃.ba.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trimbale /tʁɛ̃.bal/	trimbales /tʁɛ̃.bal/	trimbale /tʁɛ̃.bal/	trimbalons /tʁɛ̃.ba.lɔ̃/	trimbalez /tʁɛ̃.ba.le/	trimbalent /tʁɛ̃.bal/
	imperfect	trimbalais /tʁɛ̃.ba.lɛ/	trimbalais /tʁɛ̃.ba.lɛ/	trimbalait /tʁɛ̃.ba.lɛ/	trimbalions /tʁɛ̃.ba.ljɔ̃/	trimbaliez /tʁɛ̃.ba.lje/	trimbalaient /tʁɛ̃.ba.lɛ/
	past historic2	trimbalai /tʁɛ̃.ba.le/	trimbalas /tʁɛ̃.ba.la/	trimbala /tʁɛ̃.ba.la/	trimbalâmes /tʁɛ̃.ba.lam/	trimbalâtes /tʁɛ̃.ba.lat/	trimbalèrent /tʁɛ̃.ba.lɛʁ/
	future	trimbalerai /tʁɛ̃.bal.ʁe/	trimbaleras /tʁɛ̃.bal.ʁa/	trimbalera /tʁɛ̃.bal.ʁa/	trimbalerons /tʁɛ̃.bal.ʁɔ̃/	trimbalerez /tʁɛ̃.bal.ʁe/	trimbaleront /tʁɛ̃.bal.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trimbalerais /tʁɛ̃.bal.ʁɛ/	trimbalerais /tʁɛ̃.bal.ʁɛ/	trimbalerait /tʁɛ̃.bal.ʁɛ/	trimbalerions /tʁɛ̃.ba.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	trimbaleriez /tʁɛ̃.ba.lə.ʁje/	trimbaleraient /tʁɛ̃.bal.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	trimbale /tʁɛ̃.bal/	trimbales /tʁɛ̃.bal/	trimbale /tʁɛ̃.bal/	trimbalions /tʁɛ̃.ba.ljɔ̃/	trimbaliez /tʁɛ̃.ba.lje/	trimbalent /tʁɛ̃.bal/
	imperfect2	trimbalasse /tʁɛ̃.ba.las/	trimbalasses /tʁɛ̃.ba.las/	trimbalât /tʁɛ̃.ba.la/	trimbalassions /tʁɛ̃.ba.la.sjɔ̃/	trimbalassiez /tʁɛ̃.ba.la.sje/	trimbalassent /tʁɛ̃.ba.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trimbale /tʁɛ̃.bal/	—	trimbalons /tʁɛ̃.ba.lɔ̃/	trimbalez /tʁɛ̃.ba.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).

Further reading

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