cailleter
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaj.te/
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Verb
cailleter
- (intransitive, dated) to gossip, chew the cud
Conjugation
With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.
Conjugation of cailleter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cailleter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cailletant /kaj.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cailleté /kaj.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | caillette or caillète /ka.jɛt/ |
caillettes or caillètes /ka.jɛt/ |
caillette or caillète /ka.jɛt/ |
cailletons /kaj.tɔ̃/ |
cailletez /kaj.te/ |
caillettent or caillètent /ka.jɛt/ |
| imperfect | cailletais /kaj.tɛ/ |
cailletais /kaj.tɛ/ |
cailletait /kaj.tɛ/ |
cailletions /ka.jə.tjɔ̃/ |
cailletiez /ka.jə.tje/ |
cailletaient /kaj.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cailletai /kaj.te/ |
cailletas /kaj.ta/ |
cailleta /kaj.ta/ |
cailletâmes /kaj.tam/ |
cailletâtes /kaj.tat/ |
cailletèrent /kaj.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | cailletterai or caillèterai /ka.jɛ.tʁe/ or /ka.je.tʁe/ |
cailletteras or caillèteras /ka.jɛ.tʁa/ or /ka.je.tʁa/ |
caillettera or caillètera /ka.jɛ.tʁa/ or /ka.je.tʁa/ |
cailletterons or caillèterons /ka.jɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ka.je.tʁɔ̃/ |
cailletterez or caillèterez /ka.jɛ.tʁe/ or /ka.je.tʁe/ |
cailletteront or caillèteront /ka.jɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ka.je.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cailletterais or caillèterais /ka.jɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.je.tʁɛ/ |
cailletterais or caillèterais /ka.jɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.je.tʁɛ/ |
cailletterait or caillèterait /ka.jɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.je.tʁɛ/ |
cailletterions or caillèterions /ka.jɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ka.je.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cailletteriez or caillèteriez /ka.jɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ka.je.tə.ʁje/ |
cailletteraient or caillèteraient /ka.jɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.je.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | caillette or caillète /ka.jɛt/ |
caillettes or caillètes /ka.jɛt/ |
caillette or caillète /ka.jɛt/ |
cailletions /ka.jə.tjɔ̃/ |
cailletiez /ka.jə.tje/ |
caillettent or caillètent /ka.jɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | cailletasse /kaj.tas/ |
cailletasses /kaj.tas/ |
cailletât /kaj.ta/ |
cailletassions /kaj.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
cailletassiez /kaj.ta.sje/ |
cailletassent /kaj.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | caillette or caillète /ka.jɛt/ |
— | cailletons /kaj.tɔ̃/ |
cailletez /kaj.te/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “cailleter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.