vaciller
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin vacillāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va.si.je/
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Verb
vaciller
Conjugation
Conjugation of vaciller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | vaciller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | vacillant /va.si.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | vacillé /va.si.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | vacille /va.sij/ |
vacilles /va.sij/ |
vacille /va.sij/ |
vacillons /va.si.jɔ̃/ |
vacillez /va.si.je/ |
vacillent /va.sij/ |
| imperfect | vacillais /va.si.jɛ/ |
vacillais /va.si.jɛ/ |
vacillait /va.si.jɛ/ |
vacillions /va.sij.jɔ̃/ |
vacilliez /va.sij.je/ |
vacillaient /va.si.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | vacillai /va.si.je/ |
vacillas /va.si.ja/ |
vacilla /va.si.ja/ |
vacillâmes /va.si.jam/ |
vacillâtes /va.si.jat/ |
vacillèrent /va.si.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | vacillerai /va.sij.ʁe/ |
vacilleras /va.sij.ʁa/ |
vacillera /va.sij.ʁa/ |
vacillerons /va.sij.ʁɔ̃/ |
vacillerez /va.sij.ʁe/ |
vacilleront /va.sij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | vacillerais /va.sij.ʁɛ/ |
vacillerais /va.sij.ʁɛ/ |
vacillerait /va.sij.ʁɛ/ |
vacillerions /va.si.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vacilleriez /va.si.jə.ʁje/ |
vacilleraient /va.sij.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 | vacille /va.sij/ |
vacilles /va.sij/ |
vacille /va.sij/ |
vacillions /va.sij.jɔ̃/ |
vacilliez /va.sij.je/ |
vacillent /va.sij/ |
| imperfect2 | vacillasse /va.si.jas/ |
vacillasses /va.si.jas/ |
vacillât /va.si.ja/ |
vacillassions /va.si.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
vacillassiez /va.si.ja.sje/ |
vacillassent /va.si.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | vacille /va.sij/ |
— | vacillons /va.si.jɔ̃/ |
vacillez /va.si.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
- “vaciller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
vaciller
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of vacillō