mitrailler
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.tʁa.je/
Audio: (file)
Verb
mitrailler
- (ambitransitive) to machine-gun, to fire
- (transitive) to snap away (take many photos of)
- (transitive, vulgar) to pummel (have hard sex with)
Conjugation
Conjugation of mitrailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | mitrailler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | mitraillant /mi.tʁa.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | mitraillé /mi.tʁa.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | mitraille /mi.tʁaj/ |
mitrailles /mi.tʁaj/ |
mitraille /mi.tʁaj/ |
mitraillons /mi.tʁa.jɔ̃/ |
mitraillez /mi.tʁa.je/ |
mitraillent /mi.tʁaj/ |
| imperfect | mitraillais /mi.tʁa.jɛ/ |
mitraillais /mi.tʁa.jɛ/ |
mitraillait /mi.tʁa.jɛ/ |
mitraillions /mi.tʁaj.jɔ̃/ |
mitrailliez /mi.tʁaj.je/ |
mitraillaient /mi.tʁa.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | mitraillai /mi.tʁa.je/ |
mitraillas /mi.tʁa.ja/ |
mitrailla /mi.tʁa.ja/ |
mitraillâmes /mi.tʁa.jam/ |
mitraillâtes /mi.tʁa.jat/ |
mitraillèrent /mi.tʁa.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | mitraillerai /mi.tʁaj.ʁe/ |
mitrailleras /mi.tʁaj.ʁa/ |
mitraillera /mi.tʁaj.ʁa/ |
mitraillerons /mi.tʁaj.ʁɔ̃/ |
mitraillerez /mi.tʁaj.ʁe/ |
mitrailleront /mi.tʁaj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | mitraillerais /mi.tʁaj.ʁɛ/ |
mitraillerais /mi.tʁaj.ʁɛ/ |
mitraillerait /mi.tʁaj.ʁɛ/ |
mitraillerions /mi.tʁa.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mitrailleriez /mi.tʁa.jə.ʁje/ |
mitrailleraient /mi.tʁaj.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 | mitraille /mi.tʁaj/ |
mitrailles /mi.tʁaj/ |
mitraille /mi.tʁaj/ |
mitraillions /mi.tʁaj.jɔ̃/ |
mitrailliez /mi.tʁaj.je/ |
mitraillent /mi.tʁaj/ |
| imperfect2 | mitraillasse /mi.tʁa.jas/ |
mitraillasses /mi.tʁa.jas/ |
mitraillât /mi.tʁa.ja/ |
mitraillassions /mi.tʁa.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
mitraillassiez /mi.tʁa.ja.sje/ |
mitraillassent /mi.tʁa.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | mitraille /mi.tʁaj/ |
— | mitraillons /mi.tʁa.jɔ̃/ |
mitraillez /mi.tʁa.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “mitrailler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.