scintiller
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin scintillāre. Compare étinceler, which may be an inherited doublet through a Vulgar Latin derivative, or an internal formation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɛ̃.ti.je/
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Verb
scintiller
Conjugation
Conjugation of scintiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | scintiller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | scintillant /sɛ̃.ti.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | scintillé /sɛ̃.ti.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | scintille /sɛ̃.tij/ |
scintilles /sɛ̃.tij/ |
scintille /sɛ̃.tij/ |
scintillons /sɛ̃.ti.jɔ̃/ |
scintillez /sɛ̃.ti.je/ |
scintillent /sɛ̃.tij/ |
| imperfect | scintillais /sɛ̃.ti.jɛ/ |
scintillais /sɛ̃.ti.jɛ/ |
scintillait /sɛ̃.ti.jɛ/ |
scintillions /sɛ̃.tij.jɔ̃/ |
scintilliez /sɛ̃.tij.je/ |
scintillaient /sɛ̃.ti.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | scintillai /sɛ̃.ti.je/ |
scintillas /sɛ̃.ti.ja/ |
scintilla /sɛ̃.ti.ja/ |
scintillâmes /sɛ̃.ti.jam/ |
scintillâtes /sɛ̃.ti.jat/ |
scintillèrent /sɛ̃.ti.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | scintillerai /sɛ̃.tij.ʁe/ |
scintilleras /sɛ̃.tij.ʁa/ |
scintillera /sɛ̃.tij.ʁa/ |
scintillerons /sɛ̃.tij.ʁɔ̃/ |
scintillerez /sɛ̃.tij.ʁe/ |
scintilleront /sɛ̃.tij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | scintillerais /sɛ̃.tij.ʁɛ/ |
scintillerais /sɛ̃.tij.ʁɛ/ |
scintillerait /sɛ̃.tij.ʁɛ/ |
scintillerions /sɛ̃.ti.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
scintilleriez /sɛ̃.ti.jə.ʁje/ |
scintilleraient /sɛ̃.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 | scintille /sɛ̃.tij/ |
scintilles /sɛ̃.tij/ |
scintille /sɛ̃.tij/ |
scintillions /sɛ̃.tij.jɔ̃/ |
scintilliez /sɛ̃.tij.je/ |
scintillent /sɛ̃.tij/ |
| imperfect2 | scintillasse /sɛ̃.ti.jas/ |
scintillasses /sɛ̃.ti.jas/ |
scintillât /sɛ̃.ti.ja/ |
scintillassions /sɛ̃.ti.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
scintillassiez /sɛ̃.ti.ja.sje/ |
scintillassent /sɛ̃.ti.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | scintille /sɛ̃.tij/ |
— | scintillons /sɛ̃.ti.jɔ̃/ |
scintillez /sɛ̃.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “scintiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
scintiller
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of scintillō