tournailler
French, verb\tuʁ.nɑ.je\
tournailler is a French verb meaning “to wander round and round” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faire des tours et des détours sans but apparent et sans s’éloigner du même lieu ou du même point”.
What does tournailler mean in English?
verb
- 1
to wander round and round
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Faire des tours et des détours sans but apparent et sans s’éloigner du même lieu ou du même point. 2. Tourner autour de quelqu’un pour se faire remarquer. 3. Faire tourner, faire tournoyer quelque chose.
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 tournailler
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- tournaillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- tournaillé participle past
- tournaille first-person indicative present
- tournailles indicative present second-person
- tournaillons first-person indicative plural
- tournaillez indicative plural present
- tournaillent indicative plural present
- tournaillais first-person imperfect indicative
- tournaillait imperfect indicative singular
- tournaillions first-person imperfect indicative
- tournailliez imperfect indicative plural
- tournaillaient imperfect indicative plural
- tournaillai first-person historic indicative
- tournaillas historic indicative past
- tournailla historic indicative past
- tournaillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tournailler?
- \tuʁ.nɑ.je\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.