touiller

French

Etymology

From Latin tudiculāre (“to grind, mix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu.je/

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Verb

touiller

1. (cooking) to stir, toss

Conjugation

Conjugation of touiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	touiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	touillant /tu.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		touillé /tu.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	touille /tuj/	touilles /tuj/	touille /tuj/	touillons /tu.jɔ̃/	touillez /tu.je/	touillent /tuj/
	imperfect	touillais /tu.jɛ/	touillais /tu.jɛ/	touillait /tu.jɛ/	touillions /tuj.jɔ̃/	touilliez /tuj.je/	touillaient /tu.jɛ/
	past historic2	touillai /tu.je/	touillas /tu.ja/	touilla /tu.ja/	touillâmes /tu.jam/	touillâtes /tu.jat/	touillèrent /tu.jɛʁ/
	future	touillerai /tuj.ʁe/	touilleras /tuj.ʁa/	touillera /tuj.ʁa/	touillerons /tuj.ʁɔ̃/	touillerez /tuj.ʁe/	touilleront /tuj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	touillerais /tuj.ʁɛ/	touillerais /tuj.ʁɛ/	touillerait /tuj.ʁɛ/	touillerions /tu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	touilleriez /tu.jə.ʁje/	touilleraient /tuj.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	touille /tuj/	touilles /tuj/	touille /tuj/	touillions /tuj.jɔ̃/	touilliez /tuj.je/	touillent /tuj/
	imperfect2	touillasse /tu.jas/	touillasses /tu.jas/	touillât /tu.ja/	touillassions /tu.ja.sjɔ̃/	touillassiez /tu.ja.sje/	touillassent /tu.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	touille /tuj/	—	touillons /tu.jɔ̃/	touillez /tu.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• ratatouille
• touillage
• touillasser
• touillette
• touilleur
• touilleuse

Further reading

• “touiller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.