chialer
French
Alternative forms
- chiâler (Canada)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Europe) /ʃja.le/
- IPA(key): (Canada) /ʃja.le/, (Canada) /ʃjɑ.le/
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Verb
chialer
- (informal, usually derogatory) to cry
- (Canada, informal) to complain
- 1999, Chrystine Brouillet, Les Fiancées de l'Enfer, →ISBN, page 69:
- "Elle va encore chialer parce qu'on a oublié quelque chose."
- She's going to complain again because we've forgotten something.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of chialer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | chialer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | chialant /ʃja.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | chialé /ʃja.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | chiale /ʃjal/ | chiales /ʃjal/ | chiale /ʃjal/ | chialons /ʃja.lɔ̃/ | chialez /ʃja.le/ | chialent /ʃjal/ |
| imperfect | chialais /ʃja.lɛ/ | chialais /ʃja.lɛ/ | chialait /ʃja.lɛ/ | chialions /ʃja.ljɔ̃/ | chialiez /ʃja.lje/ | chialaient /ʃja.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | chialai /ʃja.le/ | chialas /ʃja.la/ | chiala /ʃja.la/ | chialâmes /ʃja.lam/ | chialâtes /ʃja.lat/ | chialèrent /ʃja.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | chialerai /ʃjal.ʁe/ | chialeras /ʃjal.ʁa/ | chialera /ʃjal.ʁa/ | chialerons /ʃjal.ʁɔ̃/ | chialerez /ʃjal.ʁe/ | chialeront /ʃjal.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | chialerais /ʃjal.ʁɛ/ | chialerais /ʃjal.ʁɛ/ | chialerait /ʃjal.ʁɛ/ | chialerions /ʃja.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ | chialeriez /ʃja.lə.ʁje/ | chialeraient /ʃjal.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 | chiale /ʃjal/ | chiales /ʃjal/ | chiale /ʃjal/ | chialions /ʃja.ljɔ̃/ | chialiez /ʃja.lje/ | chialent /ʃjal/ |
| imperfect2 | chialasse /ʃja.las/ | chialasses /ʃja.las/ | chialât /ʃja.la/ | chialassions /ʃja.la.sjɔ̃/ | chialassiez /ʃja.la.sje/ | chialassent /ʃja.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | chiale /ʃjal/ | — | chialons /ʃja.lɔ̃/ | chialez /ʃja.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
- “chialer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.