fêler

See also: feler

French

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *fagellare, from Latin flagellare. Doublet of flageller.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɛ.le/ ~ /fe.le/

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Verb

fêler

1. (transitive) to crack
2. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to crack

Conjugation

Conjugation of fêler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fêler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fêlant /fɛ.lɑ̃/ or /fe.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fêlé /fɛ.le/ or /fe.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fêle /fɛl/	fêles /fɛl/	fêle /fɛl/	fêlons /fɛ.lɔ̃/ or /fe.lɔ̃/	fêlez /fɛ.le/ or /fe.le/	fêlent /fɛl/
	imperfect	fêlais /fɛ.lɛ/ or /fe.lɛ/	fêlais /fɛ.lɛ/ or /fe.lɛ/	fêlait /fɛ.lɛ/ or /fe.lɛ/	fêlions /fɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /fe.ljɔ̃/	fêliez /fɛ.lje/ or /fe.lje/	fêlaient /fɛ.lɛ/ or /fe.lɛ/
	past historic2	fêlai /fɛ.le/ or /fe.le/	fêlas /fɛ.la/ or /fe.la/	fêla /fɛ.la/ or /fe.la/	fêlâmes /fɛ.lam/ or /fe.lam/	fêlâtes /fɛ.lat/ or /fe.lat/	fêlèrent /fɛ.lɛʁ/ or /fe.lɛʁ/
	future	fêlerai /fɛl.ʁe/	fêleras /fɛl.ʁa/	fêlera /fɛl.ʁa/	fêlerons /fɛl.ʁɔ̃/	fêlerez /fɛl.ʁe/	fêleront /fɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fêlerais /fɛl.ʁɛ/	fêlerais /fɛl.ʁɛ/	fêlerait /fɛl.ʁɛ/	fêlerions /fɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /fe.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	fêleriez /fɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /fe.lə.ʁje/	fêleraient /fɛl.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	fêle /fɛl/	fêles /fɛl/	fêle /fɛl/	fêlions /fɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /fe.ljɔ̃/	fêliez /fɛ.lje/ or /fe.lje/	fêlent /fɛl/
	imperfect2	fêlasse /fɛ.las/ or /fe.las/	fêlasses /fɛ.las/ or /fe.las/	fêlât /fɛ.la/ or /fe.la/	fêlassions /fɛ.la.sjɔ̃/ or /fe.la.sjɔ̃/	fêlassiez /fɛ.la.sje/ or /fe.la.sje/	fêlassent /fɛ.las/ or /fe.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fêle /fɛl/	—	fêlons /fɛ.lɔ̃/ or /fe.lɔ̃/	fêlez /fɛ.le/ or /fe.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

• fêlure

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• frêle