merdailler
French, verb/mɛʁ.da.je/
merdailler is a French verb meaning “to do nothing, to waste time” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ne rien foutre, perdre son temps”.
What does merdailler mean in English?
verb
- 1
vulgarto do nothing, to waste time
Arrête donc de merdailler là-bas et viens faire quelque chose.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Ne rien foutre, perdre son temps.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of merdailler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- merdaillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- merdaillé participle past
- merdaille first-person indicative present
- merdailles indicative present second-person
- merdaillons first-person indicative plural
- merdaillez indicative plural present
- merdaillent indicative plural present
- merdaillais first-person imperfect indicative
- merdaillait imperfect indicative singular
- merdaillions first-person imperfect indicative
- merdailliez imperfect indicative plural
- merdaillaient imperfect indicative plural
- merdaillai first-person historic indicative
- merdaillas historic indicative past
- merdailla historic indicative past
- merdaillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce merdailler?
- /mɛʁ.da.je/
- \mɛʁ.dɑ.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.