toiler
English
Etymology
Noun
toiler (plural toilers)
- A person who toils or labors.
- 1929, Alexander Berkman, chapter 3, in Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism, New York: Vanguard Press, →OCLC:
- Every workingman in your city, every toiler in your country, in every country, in the whole world, is exploited and enslaved the same as you are.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /twa.le/
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Verb
toiler
Conjugation
Conjugation of toiler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | toiler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | toilant /twa.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | toilé /twa.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | toile /twal/ |
toiles /twal/ |
toile /twal/ |
toilons /twa.lɔ̃/ |
toilez /twa.le/ |
toilent /twal/ |
| imperfect | toilais /twa.lɛ/ |
toilais /twa.lɛ/ |
toilait /twa.lɛ/ |
toilions /twa.ljɔ̃/ |
toiliez /twa.lje/ |
toilaient /twa.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | toilai /twa.le/ |
toilas /twa.la/ |
toila /twa.la/ |
toilâmes /twa.lam/ |
toilâtes /twa.lat/ |
toilèrent /twa.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | toilerai /twal.ʁe/ |
toileras /twal.ʁa/ |
toilera /twal.ʁa/ |
toilerons /twal.ʁɔ̃/ |
toilerez /twal.ʁe/ |
toileront /twal.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | toilerais /twal.ʁɛ/ |
toilerais /twal.ʁɛ/ |
toilerait /twal.ʁɛ/ |
toilerions /twa.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
toileriez /twa.lə.ʁje/ |
toileraient /twal.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 | toile /twal/ |
toiles /twal/ |
toile /twal/ |
toilions /twa.ljɔ̃/ |
toiliez /twa.lje/ |
toilent /twal/ |
| imperfect2 | toilasse /twa.las/ |
toilasses /twa.las/ |
toilât /twa.la/ |
toilassions /twa.la.sjɔ̃/ |
toilassiez /twa.la.sje/ |
toilassent /twa.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | toile /twal/ |
— | toilons /twa.lɔ̃/ |
toilez /twa.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). | |||||||