vétiller

French

Etymology

Probably from vette (“ribbon, stripe”) +‎ -iller, from Old French vete, from Latin vitta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ve.ti.je/

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Verb

vétiller

1. (intransitive, archaic) to trifle (deal with unimportant things)

Conjugation

Conjugation of vétiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vétiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vétillant /ve.ti.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vétillé /ve.ti.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vétille /ve.tij/	vétilles /ve.tij/	vétille /ve.tij/	vétillons /ve.ti.jɔ̃/	vétillez /ve.ti.je/	vétillent /ve.tij/
	imperfect	vétillais /ve.ti.jɛ/	vétillais /ve.ti.jɛ/	vétillait /ve.ti.jɛ/	vétillions /ve.tij.jɔ̃/	vétilliez /ve.tij.je/	vétillaient /ve.ti.jɛ/
	past historic2	vétillai /ve.ti.je/	vétillas /ve.ti.ja/	vétilla /ve.ti.ja/	vétillâmes /ve.ti.jam/	vétillâtes /ve.ti.jat/	vétillèrent /ve.ti.jɛʁ/
	future	vétillerai /ve.tij.ʁe/	vétilleras /ve.tij.ʁa/	vétillera /ve.tij.ʁa/	vétillerons /ve.tij.ʁɔ̃/	vétillerez /ve.tij.ʁe/	vétilleront /ve.tij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vétillerais /ve.tij.ʁɛ/	vétillerais /ve.tij.ʁɛ/	vétillerait /ve.tij.ʁɛ/	vétillerions /ve.ti.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	vétilleriez /ve.ti.jə.ʁje/	vétilleraient /ve.tij.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	vétille /ve.tij/	vétilles /ve.tij/	vétille /ve.tij/	vétillions /ve.tij.jɔ̃/	vétilliez /ve.tij.je/	vétillent /ve.tij/
	imperfect2	vétillasse /ve.ti.jas/	vétillasses /ve.ti.jas/	vétillât /ve.ti.ja/	vétillassions /ve.ti.ja.sjɔ̃/	vétillassiez /ve.ti.ja.sje/	vétillassent /ve.ti.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vétille /ve.tij/	—	vétillons /ve.ti.jɔ̃/	vétillez /ve.ti.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).

Derived terms

• vétillard

Further reading

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