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achaler
achaler
French
Verb
achaler
- (Quebec) To annoy, harass, badger.
- 1945, Gabrielle Roy, Bonheur d'occasion, Éditions Pascal, p. 69,
- "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. (trans. Alan Brown, The Tin Flute, 1980)
- 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.
- 1945, Gabrielle Roy, Bonheur d'occasion, Éditions Pascal, p. 69,
Conjugation
Conjugation of achaler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | achaler | avoir achalé | |||||
| gerund | en achalant | en ayant achalé | |||||
| present participle | achalant /a.ʃa.lɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | achalé /a.ʃa.le/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| 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/ |
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| past historic1 | achalai /a.ʃa.le/ |
achalas /a.ʃa.la/ |
achala /a.ʃa.la/ |
achalâmes /a.ʃa.lam/ |
achalâtes /a.ʃa.lat/ |
achalèrent /a.ʃa.lɛʁ/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 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/ |
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| 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 | achale /a.ʃal/ |
achales /a.ʃal/ |
achale /a.ʃal/ |
achalions /a.ʃa.ljɔ̃/ |
achaliez /a.ʃa.lje/ |
achalent /a.ʃal/ |
| imperfect1 |
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/ |
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| 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 | – | |
| — | achale /a.ʃal/ |
— | achalons /a.ʃa.lɔ̃/ |
achalez /a.ʃa.le/ |
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Derived terms
Derived terms
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