voiler
French
Etymology
From voile (“veil”) + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vwa.le/
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Verb
voiler
- (transitive) to veil (cover with a veil)
- (transitive) to cover up, to cloak, to veil (to restrict the view of something)
- (reflexive) to become cloudy, to become hazy
- (reflexive) to cover up with a veil
Conjugation
Conjugation of voiler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | voiler | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | voilant /vwa.lɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | voilé /vwa.le/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | voile /vwal/ | voiles /vwal/ | voile /vwal/ | voilons /vwa.lɔ̃/ | voilez /vwa.le/ | voilent /vwal/ |
imperfect | voilais /vwa.lɛ/ | voilais /vwa.lɛ/ | voilait /vwa.lɛ/ | voilions /vwa.ljɔ̃/ | voiliez /vwa.lje/ | voilaient /vwa.lɛ/ | |
past historic2 | voilai /vwa.le/ | voilas /vwa.la/ | voila /vwa.la/ | voilâmes /vwa.lam/ | voilâtes /vwa.lat/ | voilèrent /vwa.lɛʁ/ | |
future | voilerai /vwal.ʁe/ | voileras /vwal.ʁa/ | voilera /vwal.ʁa/ | voilerons /vwal.ʁɔ̃/ | voilerez /vwal.ʁe/ | voileront /vwal.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | voilerais /vwal.ʁɛ/ | voilerais /vwal.ʁɛ/ | voilerait /vwal.ʁɛ/ | voilerions /vwa.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ | voileriez /vwa.lə.ʁje/ | voileraient /vwal.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 | voile /vwal/ | voiles /vwal/ | voile /vwal/ | voilions /vwa.ljɔ̃/ | voiliez /vwa.lje/ | voilent /vwal/ |
imperfect2 | voilasse /vwa.las/ | voilasses /vwa.las/ | voilât /vwa.la/ | voilassions /vwa.la.sjɔ̃/ | voilassiez /vwa.la.sje/ | voilassent /vwa.las/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | voile /vwal/ | — | voilons /vwa.lɔ̃/ | voilez /vwa.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
- “voiler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- violer