cailler
French
Etymology
From Old French quailler, coaillier, from Vulgar Latin *coaglāre/ *quaglāre, from syncopation of Latin coāgulāre, present active infinitive of coāgulō. Doublet of coaguler, which was borrowed.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.je/, /kɑ.je/
- Homophone: cahier
Verb
cailler
- to curdle, clot
- (slang, impersonal) To be very cold, to be brass monkeys
- Ça caille ici ! It's bloody freezing here!
- (slang, intransitive) To be very cold, to freeze
- Il fait combien ici ? Je caille.
Conjugation
Conjugation of cailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | cailler | avoir caillé | |||||
| gerund | en caillant | en ayant caillé | |||||
| present participle | caillant /ka.jɑ̃/ | ||||||
| past participle | caillé /ka.je/ | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | caille /kaj/ |
cailles /kaj/ |
caille /kaj/ |
caillons /ka.jɔ̃/ |
caillez /ka.je/ |
caillent /kaj/ |
| imperfect | caillais /ka.jɛ/ |
caillais /ka.jɛ/ |
caillait /ka.jɛ/ |
caillions /kaj.jɔ̃/ |
cailliez /kaj.je/ |
caillaient /ka.jɛ/ | |
| past historic1 | caillai /ka.je/ |
caillas /ka.ja/ |
cailla /ka.ja/ |
caillâmes /ka.jam/ |
caillâtes /ka.jat/ |
caillèrent /ka.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | caillerai /kaj.ʁe/ |
cailleras /kaj.ʁa/ |
caillera /kaj.ʁa/ |
caillerons /kaj.ʁɔ̃/ |
caillerez /kaj.ʁe/ |
cailleront /kaj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | caillerais /kaj.ʁɛ/ |
caillerais /kaj.ʁɛ/ |
caillerait /kaj.ʁɛ/ |
caillerions /ka.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cailleriez /ka.jə.ʁje/ |
cailleraient /kaj.ʁɛ/ | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | caille /kaj/ |
cailles /kaj/ |
caille /kaj/ |
caillions /kaj.jɔ̃/ |
cailliez /kaj.je/ |
caillent /kaj/ |
| imperfect1 | caillasse /ka.jas/ |
caillasses /ka.jas/ |
caillât /ka.ja/ |
caillassions /ka.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
caillassiez /ka.ja.sje/ |
caillassent /ka.jas/ | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | caille /kaj/ |
— | caillons /ka.jɔ̃/ |
caillez /ka.je/ |
— | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “cailler” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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