trimbaler
French
Alternative forms
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
Verb
trimbaler
- (transitive, colloquial) to drag
- (transitive, colloquial) to lug, lug around, cart
- (transitive, colloquial) to have in mind
- (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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(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.