achaler
French
Etymology
From Old French achaillir, achaloir (“heat up”), compare modern french chaloir (“to matter”) and dialectal chaler (“to heat”).
Verb
achaler
- (Canada) 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)
| present participle | achalant /a.ʃa.lɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | achalé /a.ʃa.le/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | achaler | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | achalant /a.ʃa.lɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | 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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Derived terms
- achalant
- achalanterie
- achalement
- réachaler
Further reading
- “achaler” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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