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traînailler

French, verb/tʁɛ.na.je/

traînailler is spelled T-R-A-Î-N-A-I-L-L-E-R (11 letters). Traînailler is a French verb meaning “to dawdle” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Traîner”.

What does traînailler mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to dawdle

  2. 2

    to mooch

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Trainer. 2. Trainer en longueur.

verb: 1. Traîner. 2. Traîner en longueur.

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 traînailler

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • traînaillant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • traînaillé participle past
  • traînaille first-person indicative present
  • traînailles indicative present second-person
  • traînaillons first-person indicative plural
  • traînaillez indicative plural present
  • traînaillent indicative plural present
  • traînaillais first-person imperfect indicative
  • traînaillait imperfect indicative singular
  • traînaillions first-person imperfect indicative
  • traînailliez imperfect indicative plural
  • traînaillaient imperfect indicative plural
  • traînaillai first-person historic indicative
  • traînaillas historic indicative past
  • traînailla historic indicative past
  • traînaillâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce traînailler?

  • /tʁɛ.na.je/
  • /tʁɛ.nɑ.je/
  • /tʁe.na.je/

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

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