vêler

See also: veler

French

Etymology

From Old French veel (“calf”), whence veau.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛ.le/, /ve.le/

• Audio

  (file)

Verb

vêler

1. to calve (all senses)

Conjugation

Conjugation of vêler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	vêler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	vêlant /vɛ.lɑ̃/ or /ve.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		vêlé /vɛ.le/ or /ve.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vêle /vɛl/	vêles /vɛl/	vêle /vɛl/	vêlons /vɛ.lɔ̃/ or /ve.lɔ̃/	vêlez /vɛ.le/ or /ve.le/	vêlent /vɛl/
	imperfect	vêlais /vɛ.lɛ/ or /ve.lɛ/	vêlais /vɛ.lɛ/ or /ve.lɛ/	vêlait /vɛ.lɛ/ or /ve.lɛ/	vêlions /vɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /ve.ljɔ̃/	vêliez /vɛ.lje/ or /ve.lje/	vêlaient /vɛ.lɛ/ or /ve.lɛ/
	past historic2	vêlai /vɛ.le/ or /ve.le/	vêlas /vɛ.la/ or /ve.la/	vêla /vɛ.la/ or /ve.la/	vêlâmes /vɛ.lam/ or /ve.lam/	vêlâtes /vɛ.lat/ or /ve.lat/	vêlèrent /vɛ.lɛʁ/ or /ve.lɛʁ/
	future	vêlerai /vɛl.ʁe/	vêleras /vɛl.ʁa/	vêlera /vɛl.ʁa/	vêlerons /vɛl.ʁɔ̃/	vêlerez /vɛl.ʁe/	vêleront /vɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	vêlerais /vɛl.ʁɛ/	vêlerais /vɛl.ʁɛ/	vêlerait /vɛl.ʁɛ/	vêlerions /vɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ve.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	vêleriez /vɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /ve.lə.ʁje/	vêleraient /vɛl.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	vêle /vɛl/	vêles /vɛl/	vêle /vɛl/	vêlions /vɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /ve.ljɔ̃/	vêliez /vɛ.lje/ or /ve.lje/	vêlent /vɛl/
	imperfect2	vêlasse /vɛ.las/ or /ve.las/	vêlasses /vɛ.las/ or /ve.las/	vêlât /vɛ.la/ or /ve.la/	vêlassions /vɛ.la.sjɔ̃/ or /ve.la.sjɔ̃/	vêlassiez /vɛ.la.sje/ or /ve.la.sje/	vêlassent /vɛ.las/ or /ve.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vêle /vɛl/	—	vêlons /vɛ.lɔ̃/ or /ve.lɔ̃/	vêlez /vɛ.le/ or /ve.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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• vêlage

Further reading

• “vêler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.