piailler
French edit
Etymology edit
Probably onomatopoeic; compare piaf
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
piailler
- to cheep; to chirp
- Dans les buissons piaillaient les moineaux.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- to emit high pitched noise
- Deux individus se réunissaient, à une heure convenue, au son d'un orgue et en présence d'invités (...) puis, au bout d'un nombre de mois déterminés, sauf accident, ils donnaient le jour à d'affreux bambins qui piaillaient, pendant des nuits entières... (Huysmans, Marthe, 1876)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of piailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | piailler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | piaillant /pja.jɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | piaillé /pja.je/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | piaille /pjaj/ |
piailles /pjaj/ |
piaille /pjaj/ |
piaillons /pja.jɔ̃/ |
piaillez /pja.je/ |
piaillent /pjaj/ |
| imperfect | piaillais /pja.jɛ/ |
piaillais /pja.jɛ/ |
piaillait /pja.jɛ/ |
piaillions /pjaj.jɔ̃/ |
piailliez /pjaj.je/ |
piaillaient /pja.jɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | piaillai /pja.je/ |
piaillas /pja.ja/ |
piailla /pja.ja/ |
piaillâmes /pja.jam/ |
piaillâtes /pja.jat/ |
piaillèrent /pja.jɛʁ/ | |
| future | piaillerai /pjaj.ʁe/ |
piailleras /pjaj.ʁa/ |
piaillera /pjaj.ʁa/ |
piaillerons /pjaj.ʁɔ̃/ |
piaillerez /pjaj.ʁe/ |
piailleront /pjaj.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | piaillerais /pjaj.ʁɛ/ |
piaillerais /pjaj.ʁɛ/ |
piaillerait /pjaj.ʁɛ/ |
piaillerions /pja.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
piailleriez /pja.jə.ʁje/ |
piailleraient /pjaj.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 | piaille /pjaj/ |
piailles /pjaj/ |
piaille /pjaj/ |
piaillions /pjaj.jɔ̃/ |
piailliez /pjaj.je/ |
piaillent /pjaj/ |
| imperfect2 | piaillasse /pja.jas/ |
piaillasses /pja.jas/ |
piaillât /pja.ja/ |
piaillassions /pja.ja.sjɔ̃/ |
piaillassiez /pja.ja.sje/ |
piaillassent /pja.jas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | piaille /pjaj/ |
— | piaillons /pja.jɔ̃/ |
piaillez /pja.je/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Derived terms
References edit
- “piailler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading edit
- “piailler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.