étriller

French

Etymology

From Old French estriller, from Vulgar Latin *strigiliāre, from *strigila, from Latin strigilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.tʁi.je/

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Verb

étriller

1. to curry (a horse), to groom
2. (sports) to crush, to trounce
3. (figuratively) to critique, to reprimand

Conjugation

Conjugation of étriller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	étriller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	étrillant /e.tʁi.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		étrillé /e.tʁi.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	étrille /e.tʁij/	étrilles /e.tʁij/	étrille /e.tʁij/	étrillons /e.tʁi.jɔ̃/	étrillez /e.tʁi.je/	étrillent /e.tʁij/
	imperfect	étrillais /e.tʁi.jɛ/	étrillais /e.tʁi.jɛ/	étrillait /e.tʁi.jɛ/	étrillions /e.tʁij.jɔ̃/	étrilliez /e.tʁij.je/	étrillaient /e.tʁi.jɛ/
	past historic2	étrillai /e.tʁi.je/	étrillas /e.tʁi.ja/	étrilla /e.tʁi.ja/	étrillâmes /e.tʁi.jam/	étrillâtes /e.tʁi.jat/	étrillèrent /e.tʁi.jɛʁ/
	future	étrillerai /e.tʁij.ʁe/	étrilleras /e.tʁij.ʁa/	étrillera /e.tʁij.ʁa/	étrillerons /e.tʁij.ʁɔ̃/	étrillerez /e.tʁij.ʁe/	étrilleront /e.tʁij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	étrillerais /e.tʁij.ʁɛ/	étrillerais /e.tʁij.ʁɛ/	étrillerait /e.tʁij.ʁɛ/	étrillerions /e.tʁi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	étrilleriez /e.tʁi.jə.ʁje/	étrilleraient /e.tʁij.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	étrille /e.tʁij/	étrilles /e.tʁij/	étrille /e.tʁij/	étrillions /e.tʁij.jɔ̃/	étrilliez /e.tʁij.je/	étrillent /e.tʁij/
	imperfect2	étrillasse /e.tʁi.jas/	étrillasses /e.tʁi.jas/	étrillât /e.tʁi.ja/	étrillassions /e.tʁi.ja.sjɔ̃/	étrillassiez /e.tʁi.ja.sje/	étrillassent /e.tʁi.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	étrille /e.tʁij/	—	étrillons /e.tʁi.jɔ̃/	étrillez /e.tʁi.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).

Related terms

• étrille

Further reading

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