atteler
French edit
Etymology edit
From Vulgar Latin *attelare, from Latin protelare.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
atteler
- (transitive) to harness, yoke, hitch (e.g. a horse to a wagon)
- (reflexive, figurative) to get down to, apply oneself to
- 2022 December 1, Mohamed Berkani, “Pourquoi "Beyrouth-sur-Seine", le livre de Sabyl Ghoussoub, a ravi les jurés du Goncourt des lycéens (et les autres)”, in Franceinfo[1]:
- L’écrivain et journaliste franco-libanais s’attèle à narrer l’histoire de ses parents et sa propre quête d’identité dans un récit plein d’humour.
- The French-Lebanese writer and journalist sets out to tell the story of his and his parents' search for identity in an account that is full of humour.
Conjugation edit
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 atteler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | atteler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | attelant /a.tlɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | attelé /a.tle/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | attelle or attèle /a.tɛl/ |
attelles or attèles /a.tɛl/ |
attelle or attèle /a.tɛl/ |
attelons /a.tlɔ̃/ |
attelez /a.tle/ |
attellent or attèlent /a.tɛl/ |
| imperfect | attelais /a.tlɛ/ |
attelais /a.tlɛ/ |
attelait /a.tlɛ/ |
attelions /a.tə.ljɔ̃/ |
atteliez /a.tə.lje/ |
attelaient /a.tlɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | attelai /a.tle/ |
attelas /a.tla/ |
attela /a.tla/ |
attelâmes /a.tlam/ |
attelâtes /a.tlat/ |
attelèrent /a.tlɛʁ/ | |
| future | attellerai or attèlerai /a.tɛl.ʁe/ |
attelleras or attèleras /a.tɛl.ʁa/ |
attellera or attèlera /a.tɛl.ʁa/ |
attellerons or attèlerons /a.tɛl.ʁɔ̃/ |
attellerez or attèlerez /a.tɛl.ʁe/ |
attelleront or attèleront /a.tɛl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | attellerais or attèlerais /a.tɛl.ʁɛ/ |
attellerais or attèlerais /a.tɛl.ʁɛ/ |
attellerait or attèlerait /a.tɛl.ʁɛ/ |
attellerions or attèlerions /a.tɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.te.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
attelleriez or attèleriez /a.tɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /a.te.lə.ʁje/ |
attelleraient or attèleraient /a.tɛl.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 | attelle or attèle /a.tɛl/ |
attelles or attèles /a.tɛl/ |
attelle or attèle /a.tɛl/ |
attelions /a.tə.ljɔ̃/ |
atteliez /a.tə.lje/ |
attellent or attèlent /a.tɛl/ |
| imperfect2 | attelasse /a.tlas/ |
attelasses /a.tlas/ |
attelât /a.tla/ |
attelassions /a.tla.sjɔ̃/ |
attelassiez /a.tla.sje/ |
attelassent /a.tlas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | attelle or attèle /a.tɛl/ |
— | attelons /a.tlɔ̃/ |
attelez /a.tle/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “atteler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.