achaler
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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French achaillir, achaloir (“heat up”), compare modern french chaloir (“to matter”) and dialectal chaler (“to heat”).
Pronunciation
Verb
achaler
- (Canada, informal) to annoy, harass, badger
- 1945, Gabrielle Roy, Bonheur d'occasion, Éditions Pascal, p. 69, (trans. Alan Brown, The Tin Flute, 1980)
- Ça fait donc qu’a nous achale pour qu’on achète ses bebelles.
- So they dun it into our ears that we gotta buy all their junk.
- 2009, Novembre 13, Maxime Deland, "Battu à coups de pierres", 24H Montréal, p. 8,
- La victime tentait de venir en aide à une dame qui se faisait achaler par les jeunes.
- The victim attempted to assist a woman who was being harassed by the youths.
- 1945, Gabrielle Roy, Bonheur d'occasion, Éditions Pascal, p. 69, (trans. Alan Brown, The Tin Flute, 1980)
Conjugation
Conjugation of achaler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | achaler | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | achalant /a.ʃa.lɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | achalé /a.ʃa.le/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | achale /a.ʃal/ |
achales /a.ʃal/ |
achale /a.ʃal/ |
achalons /a.ʃa.lɔ̃/ |
achalez /a.ʃa.le/ |
achalent /a.ʃal/ |
imperfect | achalais /a.ʃa.lɛ/ |
achalais /a.ʃa.lɛ/ |
achalait /a.ʃa.lɛ/ |
achalions /a.ʃa.ljɔ̃/ |
achaliez /a.ʃa.lje/ |
achalaient /a.ʃa.lɛ/ | |
past historic2 | achalai /a.ʃa.le/ |
achalas /a.ʃa.la/ |
achala /a.ʃa.la/ |
achalâmes /a.ʃa.lam/ |
achalâtes /a.ʃa.lat/ |
achalèrent /a.ʃa.lɛʁ/ | |
future | achalerai /a.ʃal.ʁe/ |
achaleras /a.ʃal.ʁa/ |
achalera /a.ʃal.ʁa/ |
achalerons /a.ʃal.ʁɔ̃/ |
achalerez /a.ʃal.ʁe/ |
achaleront /a.ʃal.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | achalerais /a.ʃal.ʁɛ/ |
achalerais /a.ʃal.ʁɛ/ |
achalerait /a.ʃal.ʁɛ/ |
achalerions /a.ʃa.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
achaleriez /a.ʃa.lə.ʁje/ |
achaleraient /a.ʃal.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 | achale /a.ʃal/ |
achales /a.ʃal/ |
achale /a.ʃal/ |
achalions /a.ʃa.ljɔ̃/ |
achaliez /a.ʃa.lje/ |
achalent /a.ʃal/ |
imperfect2 | achalasse /a.ʃa.las/ |
achalasses /a.ʃa.las/ |
achalât /a.ʃa.la/ |
achalassions /a.ʃa.la.sjɔ̃/ |
achalassiez /a.ʃa.la.sje/ |
achalassent /a.ʃa.las/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | achale /a.ʃal/ |
— | achalons /a.ʃa.lɔ̃/ |
achalez /a.ʃa.le/ |
— | |
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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
Further reading
- “achaler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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