aller

Dutch

Determiner

aller

of all; genitive form of al
Tot op heden is Van Beethoven nog steeds één van de beroemdste en meest invloedrijke musici aller tijden. — Up to this day, Beethoven is still one of the most famous and most influential musicians of all times!

French

Etymology

Syncretic verb; from Old French aler, alier, along with subjunctive aill- and other forms with all-, from Vulgar Latin alare (7th cent., Reichnau Glosses), from Gaulish *aliu (compare Welsh elen ‘I was going’, Cornish ellev ‘I may go’); also Franco-Provençal alâ, allar and Friulan lâ ‘to go’ (cf. lin ‘we go’, lât ‘gone’). Often misattributed to Latin ambulare, but that is phonetically impossible, compare: Old Provençal amblar, Italian ambiare, Romanian umbla.
Latin vādō ‘to wade’ supplies the present tense forms and īre (present active infinitive of eō) supplies the future and conditional.

Pronunciation

Verb

aller

(intransitive) to go
Nous devons aller à l'école. — “We must go to school.”

J’irai au magasin. — “I will go to the store.”
(when followed by an infinitive verb) to be going (to); will soon; forms a near-future tense
Il allait visiter sa famille. — “He was going to visit his family.”

Je vais aller au magasin. — “I will go to the store.”

Tout ira bien - “All will be well.”
to be (feeling)
J'espère que tu vas bien. — “I hope you are well.”
to go well with (clothes, colors, etc.)

Conjugation

The verb aller has a unique and highly irregular conjugation.

Conjugation of aller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		aller			être allé
gerund		en allant			en étant allé
present participle		allant
past participle		allé
person		singular			plural
person		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	vais	vas	va	allons	allez	vont
	imperfect	allais	allais	allait	allions	alliez	allaient
	past historic¹	allai	allas	alla	allâmes	allâtes	allèrent
	future	irai	iras	ira	irons	irez	iront
	conditional	irais	irais	irait	irions	iriez	iraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of être followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of être followed by the past participle
	past anterior¹	Use the past historic tense of être followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of être followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of être followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	aille	ailles	aille	allions	alliez	aillent
simple tenses	imperfect¹	allasse	allasses	allât	allassions	allassiez	allassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of être followed by the past participle
compound tenses	pluperfect¹	Use the imperfect subjunctive of être followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
imperative		—	va	—	allons	allez	—
¹literary tenses