carreler
French
Etymology
From Middle French carreler, from carrel + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs). Carrel is a variant of carreau (“square; tile”). By surface analysis, carrel + -er.
Pronunciation
Verb
carreler
Conjugation
With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.
Conjugation of carreler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | carreler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | carrelant /kaʁ.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | carrelé /kaʁ.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | carrelle or carrèle /ka.ʁɛl/ |
carrelles or carrèles /ka.ʁɛl/ |
carrelle or carrèle /ka.ʁɛl/ |
carrelons /kaʁ.lɔ̃/ |
carrelez /kaʁ.le/ |
carrellent or carrèlent /ka.ʁɛl/ |
| imperfect | carrelais /kaʁ.lɛ/ |
carrelais /kaʁ.lɛ/ |
carrelait /kaʁ.lɛ/ |
carrelions /ka.ʁə.ljɔ̃/ |
carreliez /ka.ʁə.lje/ |
carrelaient /kaʁ.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | carrelai /kaʁ.le/ |
carrelas /kaʁ.la/ |
carrela /kaʁ.la/ |
carrelâmes /kaʁ.lam/ |
carrelâtes /kaʁ.lat/ |
carrelèrent /kaʁ.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | carrellerai or carrèlerai /ka.ʁɛl.ʁe/ |
carrelleras or carrèleras /ka.ʁɛl.ʁa/ |
carrellera or carrèlera /ka.ʁɛl.ʁa/ |
carrellerons or carrèlerons /ka.ʁɛl.ʁɔ̃/ |
carrellerez or carrèlerez /ka.ʁɛl.ʁe/ |
carrelleront or carrèleront /ka.ʁɛl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | carrellerais or carrèlerais /ka.ʁɛl.ʁɛ/ |
carrellerais or carrèlerais /ka.ʁɛl.ʁɛ/ |
carrellerait or carrèlerait /ka.ʁɛl.ʁɛ/ |
carrellerions or carrèlerions /ka.ʁɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ka.ʁe.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
carrelleriez or carrèleriez /ka.ʁɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /ka.ʁe.lə.ʁje/ |
carrelleraient or carrèleraient /ka.ʁɛl.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 | carrelle or carrèle /ka.ʁɛl/ |
carrelles or carrèles /ka.ʁɛl/ |
carrelle or carrèle /ka.ʁɛl/ |
carrelions /ka.ʁə.ljɔ̃/ |
carreliez /ka.ʁə.lje/ |
carrellent or carrèlent /ka.ʁɛl/ |
| imperfect2 | carrelasse /kaʁ.las/ |
carrelasses /kaʁ.las/ |
carrelât /kaʁ.la/ |
carrelassions /kaʁ.la.sjɔ̃/ |
carrelassiez /kaʁ.la.sje/ |
carrelassent /kaʁ.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | carrelle or carrèle /ka.ʁɛl/ |
— | carrelons /kaʁ.lɔ̃/ |
carrelez /kaʁ.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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “carreler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.