rigoler
French
Etymology
rire (“to laugh”) + Old French galer (“have fun, enjoy oneself, danse”), from Frankish origins.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁi.ɡɔ.le/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -e
- Homophones: rigolai, rigolé, rigolée, rigolées, rigolés, rigolez
Verb
rigoler
- (intransitive, informal) to laugh, especially laugh out loud
- (intransitive, informal) to joke, to kid
- Synonyms: blaguer, déconner, plaisanter
- Mais, tu rigoles ou quoi ?
- Are you kidding me?
Conjugation
Conjugation of rigoler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | rigoler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | rigolant /ʁi.ɡɔ.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | rigolé /ʁi.ɡɔ.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | rigole /ʁi.ɡɔl/ |
rigoles /ʁi.ɡɔl/ |
rigole /ʁi.ɡɔl/ |
rigolons /ʁi.ɡɔ.lɔ̃/ |
rigolez /ʁi.ɡɔ.le/ |
rigolent /ʁi.ɡɔl/ |
| imperfect | rigolais /ʁi.ɡɔ.lɛ/ |
rigolais /ʁi.ɡɔ.lɛ/ |
rigolait /ʁi.ɡɔ.lɛ/ |
rigolions /ʁi.ɡɔ.ljɔ̃/ |
rigoliez /ʁi.ɡɔ.lje/ |
rigolaient /ʁi.ɡɔ.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | rigolai /ʁi.ɡɔ.le/ |
rigolas /ʁi.ɡɔ.la/ |
rigola /ʁi.ɡɔ.la/ |
rigolâmes /ʁi.ɡɔ.lam/ |
rigolâtes /ʁi.ɡɔ.lat/ |
rigolèrent /ʁi.ɡɔ.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | rigolerai /ʁi.ɡɔl.ʁe/ |
rigoleras /ʁi.ɡɔl.ʁa/ |
rigolera /ʁi.ɡɔl.ʁa/ |
rigolerons /ʁi.ɡɔl.ʁɔ̃/ |
rigolerez /ʁi.ɡɔl.ʁe/ |
rigoleront /ʁi.ɡɔl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | rigolerais /ʁi.ɡɔl.ʁɛ/ |
rigolerais /ʁi.ɡɔl.ʁɛ/ |
rigolerait /ʁi.ɡɔl.ʁɛ/ |
rigolerions /ʁi.ɡɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
rigoleriez /ʁi.ɡɔ.lə.ʁje/ |
rigoleraient /ʁi.ɡɔl.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 | rigole /ʁi.ɡɔl/ |
rigoles /ʁi.ɡɔl/ |
rigole /ʁi.ɡɔl/ |
rigolions /ʁi.ɡɔ.ljɔ̃/ |
rigoliez /ʁi.ɡɔ.lje/ |
rigolent /ʁi.ɡɔl/ |
| imperfect2 | rigolasse /ʁi.ɡɔ.las/ |
rigolasses /ʁi.ɡɔ.las/ |
rigolât /ʁi.ɡɔ.la/ |
rigolassions /ʁi.ɡɔ.la.sjɔ̃/ |
rigolassiez /ʁi.ɡɔ.la.sje/ |
rigolassent /ʁi.ɡɔ.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | rigole /ʁi.ɡɔl/ |
— | rigolons /ʁi.ɡɔ.lɔ̃/ |
rigolez /ʁi.ɡɔ.le/ |
— | |
| 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
- “rigoler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “rigoler” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.