chialer
French
Alternative forms
- chiâler (Canada)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Europe) /ʃja.le/
- IPA(key): (Canada) /ʃja.le/ ~ /ʃjɑ.le/
Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)): (file) Audio (France (Lyon)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file)
Verb
chialer
- (informal, usually derogatory) to cry
- (Canada, informal) to complain
- 1999, Chrystine Brouillet, Les Fiancées de l'Enfer, →ISBN, page 69:
- "Elle va encore chialer parce qu'on a oublié quelque chose."
- She's going to complain again because we've forgotten something.
Conjugation
Conjugation of chialer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | chialer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | chialant /ʃja.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | chialé /ʃja.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | chiale /ʃjal/ |
chiales /ʃjal/ |
chiale /ʃjal/ |
chialons /ʃja.lɔ̃/ |
chialez /ʃja.le/ |
chialent /ʃjal/ |
| imperfect | chialais /ʃja.lɛ/ |
chialais /ʃja.lɛ/ |
chialait /ʃja.lɛ/ |
chialions /ʃja.ljɔ̃/ |
chialiez /ʃja.lje/ |
chialaient /ʃja.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | chialai /ʃja.le/ |
chialas /ʃja.la/ |
chiala /ʃja.la/ |
chialâmes /ʃja.lam/ |
chialâtes /ʃja.lat/ |
chialèrent /ʃja.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | chialerai /ʃjal.ʁe/ |
chialeras /ʃjal.ʁa/ |
chialera /ʃjal.ʁa/ |
chialerons /ʃjal.ʁɔ̃/ |
chialerez /ʃjal.ʁe/ |
chialeront /ʃjal.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | chialerais /ʃjal.ʁɛ/ |
chialerais /ʃjal.ʁɛ/ |
chialerait /ʃjal.ʁɛ/ |
chialerions /ʃja.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
chialeriez /ʃja.lə.ʁje/ |
chialeraient /ʃjal.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 | chiale /ʃjal/ |
chiales /ʃjal/ |
chiale /ʃjal/ |
chialions /ʃja.ljɔ̃/ |
chialiez /ʃja.lje/ |
chialent /ʃjal/ |
| imperfect2 | chialasse /ʃja.las/ |
chialasses /ʃja.las/ |
chialât /ʃja.la/ |
chialassions /ʃja.la.sjɔ̃/ |
chialassiez /ʃja.la.sje/ |
chialassent /ʃja.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | chiale /ʃjal/ |
— | chialons /ʃja.lɔ̃/ |
chialez /ʃja.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “chialer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.