vêler
See also: veler
French
Etymology
From Old French veel (“calf”), whence veau.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɛ.le/ ~ /ve.le/
Audio: (file)
Verb
vêler
- to calve (all senses)
- Le fermier voyait que Marguerite allait bientôt vêler.
- The farmer could see that Marguerite was going to calve soon.
- 2025 April 13 (last accessed), “Les glaciers vêlent, les carottes sont-elles cuites ?”, in Pour Fontenay[1] (blog):
- Le réchauffement climatique accélère la production d’icebergs par les glaciers. Quand le bloc de glace se détache du glacier, on dit que le glacier « vêle ».
- Climate change is accelerating iceberg production by glaciers. When the block of ice detaches from the glacier, the glacier is said to calve.
Conjugation
Conjugation of vêler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | vêler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | vêlant /vɛ.lɑ̃/ or /ve.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | vêlé /vɛ.le/ or /ve.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | vêle /vɛl/ |
vêles /vɛl/ |
vêle /vɛl/ |
vêlons /vɛ.lɔ̃/ or /ve.lɔ̃/ |
vêlez /vɛ.le/ or /ve.le/ |
vêlent /vɛl/ |
| imperfect | vêlais /vɛ.lɛ/ or /ve.lɛ/ |
vêlais /vɛ.lɛ/ or /ve.lɛ/ |
vêlait /vɛ.lɛ/ or /ve.lɛ/ |
vêlions /vɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /ve.ljɔ̃/ |
vêliez /vɛ.lje/ or /ve.lje/ |
vêlaient /vɛ.lɛ/ or /ve.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | vêlai /vɛ.le/ or /ve.le/ |
vêlas /vɛ.la/ or /ve.la/ |
vêla /vɛ.la/ or /ve.la/ |
vêlâmes /vɛ.lam/ or /ve.lam/ |
vêlâtes /vɛ.lat/ or /ve.lat/ |
vêlèrent /vɛ.lɛʁ/ or /ve.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | vêlerai /vɛl.ʁe/ |
vêleras /vɛl.ʁa/ |
vêlera /vɛl.ʁa/ |
vêlerons /vɛl.ʁɔ̃/ |
vêlerez /vɛl.ʁe/ |
vêleront /vɛl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | vêlerais /vɛl.ʁɛ/ |
vêlerais /vɛl.ʁɛ/ |
vêlerait /vɛl.ʁɛ/ |
vêlerions /vɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ve.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
vêleriez /vɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /ve.lə.ʁje/ |
vêleraient /vɛl.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 | vêle /vɛl/ |
vêles /vɛl/ |
vêle /vɛl/ |
vêlions /vɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /ve.ljɔ̃/ |
vêliez /vɛ.lje/ or /ve.lje/ |
vêlent /vɛl/ |
| imperfect2 | vêlasse /vɛ.las/ or /ve.las/ |
vêlasses /vɛ.las/ or /ve.las/ |
vêlât /vɛ.la/ or /ve.la/ |
vêlassions /vɛ.la.sjɔ̃/ or /ve.la.sjɔ̃/ |
vêlassiez /vɛ.la.sje/ or /ve.la.sje/ |
vêlassent /vɛ.las/ or /ve.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | vêle /vɛl/ |
— | vêlons /vɛ.lɔ̃/ or /ve.lɔ̃/ |
vêlez /vɛ.le/ or /ve.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “vêler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.