allier
See also: Allier
French
Etymology
From Old French alier, from Latin alligāre, present active infinitive of alligō. Doublet of the form aloyer, from the Old French variant aloiier.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.lje/
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Verb
allier
- to ally
- to alloy
Conjugation
Conjugation of allier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | allier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | alliant /a.ljɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | allié /a.lje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | allie /a.li/ | allies /a.li/ | allie /a.li/ | allions /a.ljɔ̃/ | alliez /a.lje/ | allient /a.li/ |
| imperfect | alliais /a.ljɛ/ | alliais /a.ljɛ/ | alliait /a.ljɛ/ | alliions /a.li.jɔ̃/ | alliiez /a.li.je/ | alliaient /a.ljɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | alliai /a.lje/ | allias /a.lja/ | allia /a.lja/ | alliâmes /a.ljam/ | alliâtes /a.ljat/ | allièrent /a.ljɛʁ/ | |
| future | allierai /a.li.ʁe/ | allieras /a.li.ʁa/ | alliera /a.li.ʁa/ | allierons /a.li.ʁɔ̃/ | allierez /a.li.ʁe/ | allieront /a.li.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | allierais /a.li.ʁɛ/ | allierais /a.li.ʁɛ/ | allierait /a.li.ʁɛ/ | allierions /a.li.ʁjɔ̃/ | allieriez /a.li.ʁje/ | allieraient /a.li.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 | allie /a.li/ | allies /a.li/ | allie /a.li/ | alliions /a.li.jɔ̃/ | alliiez /a.li.je/ | allient /a.li/ |
| imperfect2 | alliasse /a.ljas/ | alliasses /a.ljas/ | alliât /a.lja/ | alliassions /a.lja.sjɔ̃/ | alliassiez /a.lja.sje/ | alliassent /a.ljas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | allie /a.li/ | — | allions /a.ljɔ̃/ | alliez /a.lje/ | — | |
| 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
- alliage
- alliance
Further reading
- “allier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- ailler, raille, raillé, rallie, rallié
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
allier
- imperative of alliere