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toiller
toiller
Old French
Verb
toiller (Anglo-Norman spelling)
- to dirty
- (figuratively) to mark; to stain; to dirty (e.g. one's reputation)
- (reflexive) to fall
- to mix; to mix together
- to agitate; to stir
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-oill, *-oills, *-oillt are modified to oil, ouz, out. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Conjugation of toiller (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | toiller | avoir toillé | |||||
| gerund | en toillant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | toillant | ||||||
| past participle | toillé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | toil | toilles | toille | toillons | toillez | toillent |
| imperfect | toilloie, toilleie, toilloe, toilleve | toilloies, toilleies, toilloes, toilleves | toilloit, toilleit, toillot, toilleve | toilliiens, toilliens | toilliiez, toilliez | toilloient, toilleient, toilloent, toillevent | |
| preterite | toillai | toillas | toilla | toillames | toillastes | toillerent | |
| future | toillerai | toilleras | toillera | toillerons | toilleroiz, toillereiz, toillerez | toilleront | |
| conditional | toilleroie, toillereie | toilleroies, toillereies | toilleroit, toillereit | toilleriiens, toilleriens | toilleriiez, toilleriez | toilleroient, toillereient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | toil | touz | tout | toillons | toillez | toillent |
| imperfect | toillasse | toillasses | toillast | toillissons, toillissiens | toillissoiz, toillissez, toillissiez | toillassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | toille | — | toillons | toillez | — | ||
References
- toiller on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (tooillier)