griller
English
Noun
griller (plural grillers)
- One who, or that which, grills.
- 2002, Karen Adler, Judith M Fertig, Fish and shellfish, grilled and smoked
- For the novice fish griller, firm-fleshed fish steaks (salmon, tuna, swordfish, shark) will be the easiest to grill.
- 2002, Karen Adler, Judith M Fertig, Fish and shellfish, grilled and smoked
- Food suitable for grilling.
- 1994 July 21, Faye Fiore, “Congress relishes another franking privilege: Meat lobby puts on the dog with exclusive luncheon for lawmakers – experts on pork”, in Los Angeles Times:
- Congressmen gleefully wolfed down every imaginable version of the hot dog – smoked kielbasas, jumbo grillers, Big & Juicy's, kosher dogs and spiced dogs […]
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡʁi.je/
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Verb
griller
- to toast (cook with a toaster)
- to grill (cook with a grill)
- (intransitive) to toast (heat up, said of e.g. skin)
- (colloquial) to smoke (a cigarette)
- 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, →ISBN, p. 164
- Puis je restais là, étendu dans le noir, à griller une cigarette et regarder dans ma tête jusqu'à ce que des poings impatients qui martelaient la porte m'obligent à céder la place.
- — Then I would linger on, stretched out in the dark, having a smoke and meditating, until impatient fists hammering on the door made me give up my place. — 1992, Robyn Marsack (trans.), The Way of the World, 2011 ed., Eland, →ISBN
- Puis je restais là, étendu dans le noir, à griller une cigarette et regarder dans ma tête jusqu'à ce que des poings impatients qui martelaient la porte m'obligent à céder la place.
- 1963, Nicolas Bouvier, L'Usage du Monde, 2005 ed., Payot & Rivages, →ISBN, p. 164
- to run (a stop sign or red light)
Conjugation
Conjugation of griller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle | grillant /ɡʁi.jɑ̃/ | ||||||
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past participle | grillé /ɡʁi.je/ | ||||||
infinitive | |||||||
simple | griller | ||||||
compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
gerund1 | |||||||
simple | grillant /ɡʁi.jɑ̃/ | ||||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | grille /ɡʁij/ |
grilles /ɡʁij/ |
grille /ɡʁij/ |
grillons /ɡʁi.jɔ̃/ |
grillez /ɡʁi.je/ |
grillent /ɡʁij/ |
imperfect | grillais /ɡʁi.jɛ/ |
grillais /ɡʁi.jɛ/ |
grillait /ɡʁi.jɛ/ |
grillions /ɡʁij.jɔ̃/ |
grilliez /ɡʁij.je/ |
grillaient /ɡʁi.jɛ/ | |
past historic2 | grillai /ɡʁi.je/ |
grillas /ɡʁi.ja/ |
grilla /ɡʁi.ja/ |
grillâmes /ɡʁi.jam/ |
grillâtes /ɡʁi.jat/ |
grillèrent /ɡʁi.jɛʁ/ | |
future | grillerai /ɡʁij.ʁe/ |
grilleras /ɡʁij.ʁa/ |
grillera /ɡʁij.ʁa/ |
grillerons /ɡʁij.ʁɔ̃/ |
grillerez /ɡʁij.ʁe/ |
grilleront /ɡʁij.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | grillerais /ɡʁij.ʁɛ/ |
grillerais /ɡʁij.ʁɛ/ |
grillerait /ɡʁij.ʁɛ/ |
grillerions /ɡʁi.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
grilleriez /ɡʁi.jə.ʁje/ |
grilleraient /ɡʁij.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 | grille /ɡʁij/ |
grilles /ɡʁij/ |
grille /ɡʁij/ |
grillions /ɡʁij.jɔ̃/ |
grilliez /ɡʁij.je/ |
grillent /ɡʁij/ |
imperfect2 | grillasse /ɡʁi.jas/ |
grillasses /ɡʁi.jas/ |
grillât /ɡʁi.ja/ |
grillassions /ɡʁi.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
grillassiez /ɡʁi.ja.sje/ |
grillassent /ɡʁi.jas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | grille /ɡʁij/ |
— | grillons /ɡʁi.jɔ̃/ |
grillez /ɡʁi.je/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Related terms
Further reading
- “griller” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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