zinzinuler

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zɛ̃.zi.ny.le/

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Verb

zinzinuler

1. to warble (make the cry of certain birds)

Conjugation

Conjugation of zinzinuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	zinzinuler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	zinzinulant /zɛ̃.zi.ny.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		zinzinulé /zɛ̃.zi.ny.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	zinzinule /zɛ̃.zi.nyl/	zinzinules /zɛ̃.zi.nyl/	zinzinule /zɛ̃.zi.nyl/	zinzinulons /zɛ̃.zi.ny.lɔ̃/	zinzinulez /zɛ̃.zi.ny.le/	zinzinulent /zɛ̃.zi.nyl/
	imperfect	zinzinulais /zɛ̃.zi.ny.lɛ/	zinzinulais /zɛ̃.zi.ny.lɛ/	zinzinulait /zɛ̃.zi.ny.lɛ/	zinzinulions /zɛ̃.zi.ny.ljɔ̃/	zinzinuliez /zɛ̃.zi.ny.lje/	zinzinulaient /zɛ̃.zi.ny.lɛ/
	past historic2	zinzinulai /zɛ̃.zi.ny.le/	zinzinulas /zɛ̃.zi.ny.la/	zinzinula /zɛ̃.zi.ny.la/	zinzinulâmes /zɛ̃.zi.ny.lam/	zinzinulâtes /zɛ̃.zi.ny.lat/	zinzinulèrent /zɛ̃.zi.ny.lɛʁ/
	future	zinzinulerai /zɛ̃.zi.nyl.ʁe/	zinzinuleras /zɛ̃.zi.nyl.ʁa/	zinzinulera /zɛ̃.zi.nyl.ʁa/	zinzinulerons /zɛ̃.zi.nyl.ʁɔ̃/	zinzinulerez /zɛ̃.zi.nyl.ʁe/	zinzinuleront /zɛ̃.zi.nyl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	zinzinulerais /zɛ̃.zi.nyl.ʁɛ/	zinzinulerais /zɛ̃.zi.nyl.ʁɛ/	zinzinulerait /zɛ̃.zi.nyl.ʁɛ/	zinzinulerions /zɛ̃.zi.ny.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	zinzinuleriez /zɛ̃.zi.ny.lə.ʁje/	zinzinuleraient /zɛ̃.zi.nyl.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	zinzinule /zɛ̃.zi.nyl/	zinzinules /zɛ̃.zi.nyl/	zinzinule /zɛ̃.zi.nyl/	zinzinulions /zɛ̃.zi.ny.ljɔ̃/	zinzinuliez /zɛ̃.zi.ny.lje/	zinzinulent /zɛ̃.zi.nyl/
	imperfect2	zinzinulasse /zɛ̃.zi.ny.las/	zinzinulasses /zɛ̃.zi.ny.las/	zinzinulât /zɛ̃.zi.ny.la/	zinzinulassions /zɛ̃.zi.ny.la.sjɔ̃/	zinzinulassiez /zɛ̃.zi.ny.la.sje/	zinzinulassent /zɛ̃.zi.ny.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	zinzinule /zɛ̃.zi.nyl/	—	zinzinulons /zɛ̃.zi.ny.lɔ̃/	zinzinulez /zɛ̃.zi.ny.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).

Derived terms

• zinzinulement

Further reading

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