tourbillonner
French
Etymology
From tourbillon + -er.
Pronunciation
Verb
tourbillonner
- (intransitive, of water) to swirl, whirl
- (intransitive, of e.g. leaves) to twirl
- (intransitive, of dancers) to twirl
- 1962, Serge Gainsbourg, “Black Trombone”:
- Le trombone / C'est joli / Tourbillonne / Gramophone / Et bâillonne / Mon ennui
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of tourbillonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | tourbillonner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | tourbillonnant /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | tourbillonné /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | tourbillonne /tuʁ.bi.jɔn/ |
tourbillonnes /tuʁ.bi.jɔn/ |
tourbillonne /tuʁ.bi.jɔn/ |
tourbillonnons /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɔ̃/ |
tourbillonnez /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.ne/ |
tourbillonnent /tuʁ.bi.jɔn/ |
| imperfect | tourbillonnais /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɛ/ |
tourbillonnais /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɛ/ |
tourbillonnait /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɛ/ |
tourbillonnions /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.njɔ̃/ |
tourbillonniez /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nje/ |
tourbillonnaient /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | tourbillonnai /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.ne/ |
tourbillonnas /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.na/ |
tourbillonna /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.na/ |
tourbillonnâmes /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nam/ |
tourbillonnâtes /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nat/ |
tourbillonnèrent /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | tourbillonnerai /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.ʁe/ |
tourbillonneras /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.ʁa/ |
tourbillonnera /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.ʁa/ |
tourbillonnerons /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.ʁɔ̃/ |
tourbillonnerez /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.ʁe/ |
tourbillonneront /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | tourbillonnerais /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.ʁɛ/ |
tourbillonnerais /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.ʁɛ/ |
tourbillonnerait /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.ʁɛ/ |
tourbillonnerions /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
tourbillonneriez /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nə.ʁje/ |
tourbillonneraient /tuʁ.bi.jɔn.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 | tourbillonne /tuʁ.bi.jɔn/ |
tourbillonnes /tuʁ.bi.jɔn/ |
tourbillonne /tuʁ.bi.jɔn/ |
tourbillonnions /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.njɔ̃/ |
tourbillonniez /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nje/ |
tourbillonnent /tuʁ.bi.jɔn/ |
| imperfect2 | tourbillonnasse /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nas/ |
tourbillonnasses /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nas/ |
tourbillonnât /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.na/ |
tourbillonnassions /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
tourbillonnassiez /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.na.sje/ |
tourbillonnassent /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | tourbillonne /tuʁ.bi.jɔn/ |
— | tourbillonnons /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.nɔ̃/ |
tourbillonnez /tuʁ.bi.jɔ.ne/ |
— | |
| 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
- “tourbillonner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012