cavaler
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
cavaler
- (colloquial) to rush about
- On a cavalé toute la journée, je suis fatiguée!
- We've been rushing about all day, I'm tired!
- 2005, “Thé à la menthe”, performed by La Caution:
- J’cavale en Stan Smith, Adidas, jean 501, ça va j’m’en tape / Ici c’est v’là l’attentat
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to be on the run
- Il a fini de cavaler, la police l’a localisé grâce à son téléphone portable.
- He's not on the run any more; the police located him thanks to his mobile phone.
- (obsolete) to bestride
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of cavaler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cavaler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cavalant /ka.va.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cavalé /ka.va.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cavale /ka.val/ |
cavales /ka.val/ |
cavale /ka.val/ |
cavalons /ka.va.lɔ̃/ |
cavalez /ka.va.le/ |
cavalent /ka.val/ |
| imperfect | cavalais /ka.va.lɛ/ |
cavalais /ka.va.lɛ/ |
cavalait /ka.va.lɛ/ |
cavalions /ka.va.ljɔ̃/ |
cavaliez /ka.va.lje/ |
cavalaient /ka.va.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cavalai /ka.va.le/ |
cavalas /ka.va.la/ |
cavala /ka.va.la/ |
cavalâmes /ka.va.lam/ |
cavalâtes /ka.va.lat/ |
cavalèrent /ka.va.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | cavalerai /ka.val.ʁe/ |
cavaleras /ka.val.ʁa/ |
cavalera /ka.val.ʁa/ |
cavalerons /ka.val.ʁɔ̃/ |
cavalerez /ka.val.ʁe/ |
cavaleront /ka.val.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cavalerais /ka.val.ʁɛ/ |
cavalerais /ka.val.ʁɛ/ |
cavalerait /ka.val.ʁɛ/ |
cavalerions /ka.va.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cavaleriez /ka.va.lə.ʁje/ |
cavaleraient /ka.val.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 | cavale /ka.val/ |
cavales /ka.val/ |
cavale /ka.val/ |
cavalions /ka.va.ljɔ̃/ |
cavaliez /ka.va.lje/ |
cavalent /ka.val/ |
| imperfect2 | cavalasse /ka.va.las/ |
cavalasses /ka.va.las/ |
cavalât /ka.va.la/ |
cavalassions /ka.va.la.sjɔ̃/ |
cavalassiez /ka.va.la.sje/ |
cavalassent /ka.va.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cavale /ka.val/ |
— | cavalons /ka.va.lɔ̃/ |
cavalez /ka.va.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). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “cavaler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Russian кавале́р (kavalér), from French cavalier, Italian cavaliere.
Noun edit
cavaler m (plural cavaleri)
- knight (warrior, especially of the Middle Ages)
Declension edit
Declension of cavaler
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) cavaler | cavalerul | (niște) cavaleri | cavalerii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) cavaler | cavalerului | (unor) cavaleri | cavalerilor |
| vocative | cavalerule, cavalere | cavalerilor | ||