achaler

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French achaillir, achaloir (“heat up”), compare modern french chaloir (“to matter”) and dialectal chaler (“to heat”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.ʃa.le/
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Verb

achaler

  1. (Canada, informal) to annoy, harass, badger
    • 1945, Gabrielle Roy, Bonheur d'occasion, Éditions Pascal, p. 69, (trans. Alan Brown, The Tin Flute, 1980)
      Ça fait donc qu’a nous achale pour qu’on achète ses bebelles.
      So they dun it into our ears that we gotta buy all their junk.
    • 2009, Novembre 13, Maxime Deland, "Battu à coups de pierres", 24H Montréal, p. 8,
      La victime tentait de venir en aide à une dame qui se faisait achaler par les jeunes.
      The victim attempted to assist a woman who was being harassed by the youths.

Conjugation

Conjugation of achaler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple achaler
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple achalant
/a.ʃa.lɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle achalé
/a.ʃa.le/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present achale
/a.ʃal/ 		achales
/a.ʃal/ 		achale
/a.ʃal/ 		achalons
/a.ʃa.lɔ̃/ 		achalez
/a.ʃa.le/ 		achalent
/a.ʃal/
imperfect achalais
/a.ʃa.lɛ/ 		achalais
/a.ʃa.lɛ/ 		achalait
/a.ʃa.lɛ/ 		achalions
/a.ʃa.ljɔ̃/ 		achaliez
/a.ʃa.lje/ 		achalaient
/a.ʃa.lɛ/
past historic2 achalai
/a.ʃa.le/ 		achalas
/a.ʃa.la/ 		achala
/a.ʃa.la/ 		achalâmes
/a.ʃa.lam/ 		achalâtes
/a.ʃa.lat/ 		achalèrent
/a.ʃa.lɛʁ/
future achalerai
/a.ʃal.ʁe/ 		achaleras
/a.ʃal.ʁa/ 		achalera
/a.ʃal.ʁa/ 		achalerons
/a.ʃal.ʁɔ̃/ 		achalerez
/a.ʃal.ʁe/ 		achaleront
/a.ʃal.ʁɔ̃/
conditional achalerais
/a.ʃal.ʁɛ/ 		achalerais
/a.ʃal.ʁɛ/ 		achalerait
/a.ʃal.ʁɛ/ 		achalerions
/a.ʃa.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		achaleriez
/a.ʃa.lə.ʁje/ 		achaleraient
/a.ʃal.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 achale
/a.ʃal/ 		achales
/a.ʃal/ 		achale
/a.ʃal/ 		achalions
/a.ʃa.ljɔ̃/ 		achaliez
/a.ʃa.lje/ 		achalent
/a.ʃal/
imperfect2 achalasse
/a.ʃa.las/ 		achalasses
/a.ʃa.las/ 		achalât
/a.ʃa.la/ 		achalassions
/a.ʃa.la.sjɔ̃/ 		achalassiez
/a.ʃa.la.sje/ 		achalassent
/a.ʃa.las/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — achale
/a.ʃal/ 		— achalons
/a.ʃa.lɔ̃/ 		achalez
/a.ʃa.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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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