triller

English

A 19th-century watercolour of a pied triller (Lalage nigra) flying near a durian tree (Durio zibethinus), from the William Farquhar Collection of Natural History Drawings, National Museum of Singapore

Wikispecies

Etymology

From trill +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)

Noun

triller (plural trillers)

1. A small passerine bird of the genus Lalage belonging to the cuckoo-shrike family Campephagidae, so called because of the loud trilling calls of the male birds.
2. One who or that which trills.
3. A musical ornament consisting of a rapid alternation between two adjacent notes.
   • 2010, Michel Debost, The Simple Flute: From A-Z, page 255:

     When the left hand is the triller, it might seem more difficult to stabilize with the right, which is mostly off the flute.

Anagrams

• Terrill, Tirrell

Dutch

Noun

triller m (plural trillers, diminutive trillertje n)

1. trill

French

Etymology

From trille +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

triller

1. to trill

Conjugation

Conjugation of triller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	triller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trillant /tʁi.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trillé /tʁi.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trille /tʁij/	trilles /tʁij/	trille /tʁij/	trillons /tʁi.jɔ̃/	trillez /tʁi.je/	trillent /tʁij/
	imperfect	trillais /tʁi.jɛ/	trillais /tʁi.jɛ/	trillait /tʁi.jɛ/	trillions /tʁij.jɔ̃/	trilliez /tʁij.je/	trillaient /tʁi.jɛ/
	past historic2	trillai /tʁi.je/	trillas /tʁi.ja/	trilla /tʁi.ja/	trillâmes /tʁi.jam/	trillâtes /tʁi.jat/	trillèrent /tʁi.jɛʁ/
	future	trillerai /tʁij.ʁe/	trilleras /tʁij.ʁa/	trillera /tʁij.ʁa/	trillerons /tʁij.ʁɔ̃/	trillerez /tʁij.ʁe/	trilleront /tʁij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trillerais /tʁij.ʁɛ/	trillerais /tʁij.ʁɛ/	trillerait /tʁij.ʁɛ/	trillerions /tʁi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	trilleriez /tʁi.jə.ʁje/	trilleraient /tʁij.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	trille /tʁij/	trilles /tʁij/	trille /tʁij/	trillions /tʁij.jɔ̃/	trilliez /tʁij.je/	trillent /tʁij/
	imperfect2	trillasse /tʁi.jas/	trillasses /tʁi.jas/	trillât /tʁi.ja/	trillassions /tʁi.ja.sjɔ̃/	trillassiez /tʁi.ja.sje/	trillassent /tʁi.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trille /tʁij/	—	trillons /tʁi.jɔ̃/	trillez /tʁi.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).

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

triller m or f

1. indefinite plural of trille

Verb

triller

1. present of trille