siler
See also: Siler, šiler, and siłer
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.le/
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Verb
siler
- (intransitive, Quebec) to whistle (make a whistling noise)
Conjugation
Conjugation of siler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | siler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | silant /si.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | silé /si.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | sile /sil/ | siles /sil/ | sile /sil/ | silons /si.lɔ̃/ | silez /si.le/ | silent /sil/ |
| imperfect | silais /si.lɛ/ | silais /si.lɛ/ | silait /si.lɛ/ | silions /si.ljɔ̃/ | siliez /si.lje/ | silaient /si.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | silai /si.le/ | silas /si.la/ | sila /si.la/ | silâmes /si.lam/ | silâtes /si.lat/ | silèrent /si.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | silerai /sil.ʁe/ | sileras /sil.ʁa/ | silera /sil.ʁa/ | silerons /sil.ʁɔ̃/ | silerez /sil.ʁe/ | sileront /sil.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | silerais /sil.ʁɛ/ | silerais /sil.ʁɛ/ | silerait /sil.ʁɛ/ | silerions /si.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ | sileriez /si.lə.ʁje/ | sileraient /sil.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 | sile /sil/ | siles /sil/ | sile /sil/ | silions /si.ljɔ̃/ | siliez /si.lje/ | silent /sil/ |
| imperfect2 | silasse /si.las/ | silasses /si.las/ | silât /si.la/ | silassions /si.la.sjɔ̃/ | silassiez /si.la.sje/ | silassent /si.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | sile /sil/ | — | silons /si.lɔ̃/ | silez /si.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “siler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- lires, relis
Latin
Etymology
Unknown.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ler/, [ˈs̠ɪɫ̪ɛr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsi.ler/, [ˈsiːler]
Noun
siler n (genitive sileris); third declension
- the spindle (euonymus)
- a kind of brook-willow
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | siler | silera |
| Genitive | sileris | silerum |
| Dative | silerī | sileribus |
| Accusative | siler | silera |
| Ablative | silere | sileribus |
| Vocative | siler | silera |
References
- “siler”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- siler in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette