piler
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪlə(ɹ)
Noun
piler (plural pilers)
- One who piles something
- 2007 May 10, Penelope Green, “Order and Chaos in a Single Heartbeat”, in New York Times:
- Houses and photography sets seem to work better, he said, if “I exert a system of precision.” Ms. Ford, 33, said she is by nature a piler and stacker but has learned to follow what she described good-naturedly as “the Charlie Code.”
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French
Etymology
From Latin pīlō, pīlāre (“to ram down”), from pīla (“column”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.le/
Verb
piler
Conjugation
Conjugation of piler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | pilant /pi.lɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | pilé /pi.le/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | piler | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | pilant /pi.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 | pile /pil/ |
piles /pil/ |
pile /pil/ |
pilons /pi.lɔ̃/ |
pilez /pi.le/ |
pilent /pil/ |
| imperfect | pilais /pi.lɛ/ |
pilais /pi.lɛ/ |
pilait /pi.lɛ/ |
pilions /pi.ljɔ̃/ |
piliez /pi.lje/ |
pilaient /pi.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pilai /pi.le/ |
pilas /pi.la/ |
pila /pi.la/ |
pilâmes /pi.lam/ |
pilâtes /pi.lat/ |
pilèrent /pi.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | pilerai /pil.ʁe/ |
pileras /pil.ʁa/ |
pilera /pil.ʁa/ |
pilerons /pil.ʁɔ̃/ |
pilerez /pil.ʁe/ |
pileront /pil.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pilerais /pil.ʁɛ/ |
pilerais /pil.ʁɛ/ |
pilerait /pil.ʁɛ/ |
pilerions /pi.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pileriez /pi.lə.ʁje/ |
pileraient /pil.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 | pile /pil/ |
piles /pil/ |
pile /pil/ |
pilions /pi.ljɔ̃/ |
piliez /pi.lje/ |
pilent /pil/ |
| imperfect2 | pilasse /pi.las/ |
pilasses /pi.las/ |
pilât /pi.la/ |
pilassions /pi.la.sjɔ̃/ |
pilassiez /pi.la.sje/ |
pilassent /pi.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pile /pil/ |
— | pilons /pi.lɔ̃/ |
pilez /pi.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). | |||||||
Related terms
- pilon (“pestle”)
Further reading
- “piler” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Norwegian Bokmål
Old French
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *pilāre, from Latin pila.
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