troller
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
troller (plural trollers)
- One who fishes by trolling.
- An engine-powered fishing boat, used for moving slowly while fishing lines drag behind, sometimes able to sail in shallow water.
- (Internet slang, nonstandard) A troll; a user who maliciously provokes others.
See also
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French troller, from Old French troller, of Germanic origin, probably from Middle High German trollen (“to stroll, walk with short strides”), perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *truzlōną (“to lumber”), which is probably related to *trudaną (“to tread, step on”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʁɔ.le/
Audio: (file)
Verb
troller
Conjugation
Conjugation of troller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | troller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | trollant /tʁɔ.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | trollé /tʁɔ.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | trolle /tʁɔl/ |
trolles /tʁɔl/ |
trolle /tʁɔl/ |
trollons /tʁɔ.lɔ̃/ |
trollez /tʁɔ.le/ |
trollent /tʁɔl/ |
| imperfect | trollais /tʁɔ.lɛ/ |
trollais /tʁɔ.lɛ/ |
trollait /tʁɔ.lɛ/ |
trollions /tʁɔ.ljɔ̃/ |
trolliez /tʁɔ.lje/ |
trollaient /tʁɔ.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | trollai /tʁɔ.le/ |
trollas /tʁɔ.la/ |
trolla /tʁɔ.la/ |
trollâmes /tʁɔ.lam/ |
trollâtes /tʁɔ.lat/ |
trollèrent /tʁɔ.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | trollerai /tʁɔl.ʁe/ |
trolleras /tʁɔl.ʁa/ |
trollera /tʁɔl.ʁa/ |
trollerons /tʁɔl.ʁɔ̃/ |
trollerez /tʁɔl.ʁe/ |
trolleront /tʁɔl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | trollerais /tʁɔl.ʁɛ/ |
trollerais /tʁɔl.ʁɛ/ |
trollerait /tʁɔl.ʁɛ/ |
trollerions /tʁɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
trolleriez /tʁɔ.lə.ʁje/ |
trolleraient /tʁɔl.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 | trolle /tʁɔl/ |
trolles /tʁɔl/ |
trolle /tʁɔl/ |
trollions /tʁɔ.ljɔ̃/ |
trolliez /tʁɔ.lje/ |
trollent /tʁɔl/ |
| imperfect2 | trollasse /tʁɔ.las/ |
trollasses /tʁɔ.las/ |
trollât /tʁɔ.la/ |
trollassions /tʁɔ.la.sjɔ̃/ |
trollassiez /tʁɔ.la.sje/ |
trollassent /tʁɔ.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | trolle /tʁɔl/ |
— | trollons /tʁɔ.lɔ̃/ |
trollez /tʁɔ.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). | |||||||
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “tredan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 521
Further reading
- “troller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.