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il rigolait

was joking, was kidding, was laughing

→ rigoler
rigol to laugh, to have fun + ait il/elle imperfect conjugation
verb · 3rd-person singular, imperfect tense Rare #51,866
was joking, was kidding
FR: Je pensais qu’il rigolait.
EN: I thought he was joking.
was laughing
FR: Elle rigolait avec ses amis.
EN: She was laughing with her friends.
Conjugation of rigoler
Indicative imperfect
SingularPlural
Third rigolait —

Au départ je croyais qu'elle rigolait.

At first, I thought she was joking.

Eh Mui, on rigolait !

Hey, Mui, we were joking!

— Shaolin Soccer (2001)

Sami rigolait à propos de ça.

Sami laughed about that.

Il s'avéra qu'il ne rigolait pas.

It turned out he wasn’t joking.