railler

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French railler, from Vulgar Latin *raglāre < *ragulāre, from Late Latin ragō (“to bray”) (whence Old French raire (“to shout, said of deer”), réer (“to shout, said of deer”), Romanian rage (“to scream, said of people or especially animals”); attested once directly in a 10th-century Hermeneumata manuscript, original perhaps c. 4th century). Compare Occitan ralhar, Catalan rallar, Italian ragliare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.je/, /ʁɑ.je/

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Verb

railler

1. (transitive) to mock, taunt, jeer at
2. (intransitive) to jest

Conjugation

Conjugation of railler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	railler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	raillant /ʁa.jɑ̃/ or /ʁɑ.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		raillé /ʁa.je/ or /ʁɑ.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	raille /ʁaj/ or /ʁɑj/	railles /ʁaj/ or /ʁɑj/	raille /ʁaj/ or /ʁɑj/	raillons /ʁa.jɔ̃/ or /ʁɑ.jɔ̃/	raillez /ʁa.je/ or /ʁɑ.je/	raillent /ʁaj/ or /ʁɑj/
	imperfect	raillais /ʁa.jɛ/ or /ʁɑ.jɛ/	raillais /ʁa.jɛ/ or /ʁɑ.jɛ/	raillait /ʁa.jɛ/ or /ʁɑ.jɛ/	raillions /ʁaj.jɔ̃/ or /ʁɑj.jɔ̃/	railliez /ʁaj.je/ or /ʁɑj.je/	raillaient /ʁa.jɛ/ or /ʁɑ.jɛ/
	past historic2	raillai /ʁa.je/ or /ʁɑ.je/	raillas /ʁa.ja/ or /ʁɑ.ja/	railla /ʁa.ja/ or /ʁɑ.ja/	raillâmes /ʁa.jam/ or /ʁɑ.jam/	raillâtes /ʁa.jat/ or /ʁɑ.jat/	raillèrent /ʁa.jɛʁ/ or /ʁɑ.jɛʁ/
	future	raillerai /ʁaj.ʁe/ or /ʁɑj.ʁe/	railleras /ʁaj.ʁa/ or /ʁɑj.ʁa/	raillera /ʁaj.ʁa/ or /ʁɑj.ʁa/	raillerons /ʁaj.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁɑj.ʁɔ̃/	raillerez /ʁaj.ʁe/ or /ʁɑj.ʁe/	railleront /ʁaj.ʁɔ̃/ or /ʁɑj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	raillerais /ʁaj.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɑj.ʁɛ/	raillerais /ʁaj.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɑj.ʁɛ/	raillerait /ʁaj.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɑj.ʁɛ/	raillerions /ʁa.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁɑ.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	railleriez /ʁa.jə.ʁje/ or /ʁɑ.jə.ʁje/	railleraient /ʁaj.ʁɛ/ or /ʁɑj.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	raille /ʁaj/ or /ʁɑj/	railles /ʁaj/ or /ʁɑj/	raille /ʁaj/ or /ʁɑj/	raillions /ʁaj.jɔ̃/ or /ʁɑj.jɔ̃/	railliez /ʁaj.je/ or /ʁɑj.je/	raillent /ʁaj/ or /ʁɑj/
	imperfect2	raillasse /ʁa.jas/ or /ʁɑ.jas/	raillasses /ʁa.jas/ or /ʁɑ.jas/	raillât /ʁa.ja/ or /ʁɑ.ja/	raillassions /ʁa.ja.sjɔ̃/ or /ʁɑ.ja.sjɔ̃/	raillassiez /ʁa.ja.sje/ or /ʁɑ.ja.sje/	raillassent /ʁa.jas/ or /ʁɑ.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	raille /ʁaj/ or /ʁɑj/	—	raillons /ʁa.jɔ̃/ or /ʁɑ.jɔ̃/	raillez /ʁa.je/ or /ʁɑ.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).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• rallier