grêler
French
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡʁɛ.le/ ~ /ɡʁe.le/
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Verb
grêler
- (impersonal, weather) to hail
Conjugation
This verb is usually conjugated only in the third person. However it’s possible to find rare usages with other persons (je grêle, tu grêles etc.) This verb is conjugated only in the third person.
Conjugation of grêler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | grêler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | grêlant /ɡʁɛ.lɑ̃/ or /ɡʁe.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | grêlé /ɡʁɛ.le/ or /ɡʁe.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | — | — | grêle /ɡʁɛl/ |
— | — | grêlent /ɡʁɛl/ |
| imperfect | — | — | grêlait /ɡʁɛ.lɛ/ or /ɡʁe.lɛ/ |
— | — | grêlaient /ɡʁɛ.lɛ/ or /ɡʁe.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | — | — | grêla /ɡʁɛ.la/ or /ɡʁe.la/ |
— | — | grêlèrent /ɡʁɛ.lɛʁ/ or /ɡʁe.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | — | — | grêlera /ɡʁɛl.ʁa/ |
— | — | grêleront /ɡʁɛl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | — | — | grêlerait /ɡʁɛl.ʁɛ/ |
— | — | grêleraient /ɡʁɛl.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 | — | — | grêle /ɡʁɛl/ |
— | — | grêlent /ɡʁɛl/ |
| imperfect2 | — | — | grêlât /ɡʁɛ.la/ or /ɡʁe.la/ |
— | — | grêlassent /ɡʁɛ.las/ or /ɡʁe.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 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
- “grêler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.