écarquiller

French

Etymology

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Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /e.kaʁ.ki.je/
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Verb

écarquiller

  1. to open wide, to goggle
    • 2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 3, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:
      […] et sous sa frimousse qui s’arrondit, à travers ses yeux émus de môme qu’il écarquille sans s’en rendre compte, quelque chose de scellé – d’enfoui profond, si profond…
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation
Conjugation of écarquiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple écarquiller
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple écarquillant
/e.kaʁ.ki.jɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle écarquillé
/e.kaʁ.ki.je/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present écarquille
/e.kaʁ.kij/		 écarquilles
/e.kaʁ.kij/		 écarquille
/e.kaʁ.kij/		 écarquillons
/e.kaʁ.ki.jɔ̃/		 écarquillez
/e.kaʁ.ki.je/		 écarquillent
/e.kaʁ.kij/
imperfect écarquillais
/e.kaʁ.ki.jɛ/		 écarquillais
/e.kaʁ.ki.jɛ/		 écarquillait
/e.kaʁ.ki.jɛ/		 écarquillions
/e.kaʁ.kij.jɔ̃/		 écarquilliez
/e.kaʁ.kij.je/		 écarquillaient
/e.kaʁ.ki.jɛ/
past historic2 écarquillai
/e.kaʁ.ki.je/		 écarquillas
/e.kaʁ.ki.ja/		 écarquilla
/e.kaʁ.ki.ja/		 écarquillâmes
/e.kaʁ.ki.jam/		 écarquillâtes
/e.kaʁ.ki.jat/		 écarquillèrent
/e.kaʁ.ki.jɛʁ/
future écarquillerai
/e.kaʁ.kij.ʁe/		 écarquilleras
/e.kaʁ.kij.ʁa/		 écarquillera
/e.kaʁ.kij.ʁa/		 écarquillerons
/e.kaʁ.kij.ʁɔ̃/		 écarquillerez
/e.kaʁ.kij.ʁe/		 écarquilleront
/e.kaʁ.kij.ʁɔ̃/
conditional écarquillerais
/e.kaʁ.kij.ʁɛ/		 écarquillerais
/e.kaʁ.kij.ʁɛ/		 écarquillerait
/e.kaʁ.kij.ʁɛ/		 écarquillerions
/e.kaʁ.ki.jə.ʁjɔ̃/		 écarquilleriez
/e.kaʁ.ki.jə.ʁje/		 écarquilleraient
/e.kaʁ.kij.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 écarquille
/e.kaʁ.kij/		 écarquilles
/e.kaʁ.kij/		 écarquille
/e.kaʁ.kij/		 écarquillions
/e.kaʁ.kij.jɔ̃/		 écarquilliez
/e.kaʁ.kij.je/		 écarquillent
/e.kaʁ.kij/
imperfect2 écarquillasse
/e.kaʁ.ki.jas/		 écarquillasses
/e.kaʁ.ki.jas/		 écarquillât
/e.kaʁ.ki.ja/		 écarquillassions
/e.kaʁ.ki.ja.sjɔ̃/		 écarquillassiez
/e.kaʁ.ki.ja.sje/		 écarquillassent
/e.kaʁ.ki.jas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — écarquille
/e.kaʁ.kij/		 — écarquillons
/e.kaʁ.ki.jɔ̃/		 écarquillez
/e.kaʁ.ki.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).

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