pallier
English edit
Adjective edit
pallier
- comparative form of pally: more pally
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin palliāre (“to cover with a cloak”), from pallium.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
pallier
- (transitive) to conceal
- (transitive) to palliate (to relieve the symptoms of)
Usage notes edit
- This verb is direct transitive; the indirect transitive use with the preposition à is common, but proscribed.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of pallier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pallier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | palliant /pa.ljɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pallié /pa.lje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pallie /pa.li/ |
pallies /pa.li/ |
pallie /pa.li/ |
pallions /pa.ljɔ̃/ |
palliez /pa.lje/ |
pallient /pa.li/ |
| imperfect | palliais /pa.ljɛ/ |
palliais /pa.ljɛ/ |
palliait /pa.ljɛ/ |
palliions /pa.li.jɔ̃/ |
palliiez /pa.li.je/ |
palliaient /pa.ljɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | palliai /pa.lje/ |
pallias /pa.lja/ |
pallia /pa.lja/ |
palliâmes /pa.ljam/ |
palliâtes /pa.ljat/ |
pallièrent /pa.ljɛʁ/ | |
| future | pallierai /pa.li.ʁe/ |
pallieras /pa.li.ʁa/ |
palliera /pa.li.ʁa/ |
pallierons /pa.li.ʁɔ̃/ |
pallierez /pa.li.ʁe/ |
pallieront /pa.li.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pallierais /pa.li.ʁɛ/ |
pallierais /pa.li.ʁɛ/ |
pallierait /pa.li.ʁɛ/ |
pallierions /pa.li.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pallieriez /pa.li.ʁje/ |
pallieraient /pa.li.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 | pallie /pa.li/ |
pallies /pa.li/ |
pallie /pa.li/ |
palliions /pa.li.jɔ̃/ |
palliiez /pa.li.je/ |
pallient /pa.li/ |
| imperfect2 | palliasse /pa.ljas/ |
palliasses /pa.ljas/ |
palliât /pa.lja/ |
palliassions /pa.lja.sjɔ̃/ |
palliassiez /pa.lja.sje/ |
palliassent /pa.ljas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pallie /pa.li/ |
— | pallions /pa.ljɔ̃/ |
palliez /pa.lje/ |
— | |
| 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
- “pallier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.