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cailleter
cailleter
French
Verb
cailleter
- (intransitive, dated) to gossip, chew the cud
Conjugation
With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can also now be conjugated like amener.
Conjugation of cailleter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | cailleter | avoir cailleté | |||||
| gerund | en cailletant | en ayant cailleté | |||||
| present participle | cailletant /kaj.tɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | cailleté /kaj.te/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | caillette or caillète /ka.jɛt/ |
caillettes or caillètes /ka.jɛt/ |
caillette or caillète /ka.jɛt/ |
cailletons /kaj.tɔ̃/ |
cailletez /kaj.te/ |
caillettent or caillètent /ka.jɛt/ |
| imperfect | cailletais /kaj.tɛ/ |
cailletais /kaj.tɛ/ |
cailletait /kaj.tɛ/ |
cailletions /ka.jə.tjɔ̃/ |
cailletiez /ka.jə.tje/ |
cailletaient /kaj.tɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | cailletai /kaj.te/ |
cailletas /kaj.ta/ |
cailleta /kaj.ta/ |
cailletâmes /kaj.tam/ |
cailletâtes /kaj.tat/ |
cailletèrent /kaj.tɛʁ/ |
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| future | cailletterai or caillèterai /ka.jɛ.tʁe/ |
cailletteras or caillèteras /ka.jɛ.tʁa/ |
caillettera or caillètera /ka.jɛ.tʁa/ |
cailletterons or caillèterons /ka.jɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
cailletterez or caillèterez /ka.jɛ.tʁe/ |
cailletteront or caillèteront /ka.jɛ.tʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | cailletterais or caillèterais /ka.jɛ.tʁɛ/ |
cailletterais or caillèterais /ka.jɛ.tʁɛ/ |
cailletterait or caillèterait /ka.jɛ.tʁɛ/ |
cailletterions or caillèterions /ka.jɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cailletteriez or caillèteriez /ka.jɛ.tə.ʁje/ |
cailletteraient or caillèteraient /ka.jɛ.tʁɛ/ |
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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 | caillette or caillète /ka.jɛt/ |
caillettes or caillètes /ka.jɛt/ |
caillette or caillète /ka.jɛt/ |
cailletions /ka.jə.tjɔ̃/ |
cailletiez /ka.jə.tje/ |
caillettent or caillètent /ka.jɛt/ |
| imperfect1 |
cailletasse /kaj.tas/ |
cailletasses /kaj.tas/ |
cailletât /kaj.ta/ |
cailletassions /kaj.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
cailletassiez /kaj.ta.sje/ |
cailletassent /kaj.tas/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | caillette or caillète /ka.jɛt/ |
— | cailletons /kaj.tɔ̃/ |
cailletez /kaj.te/ |
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