poêler

French

Etymology

From poêle +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pwa.le/, /pwa.le/ ~ /pwɑ.le/

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Verb

poêler

1. (cooking) to fry in a frying pan

Conjugation

Conjugation of poêler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	poêler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	poêlant /pwa.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		poêlé /pwa.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	poêle /pwal/	poêles /pwal/	poêle /pwal/	poêlons /pwa.lɔ̃/	poêlez /pwa.le/	poêlent /pwal/
	imperfect	poêlais /pwa.lɛ/	poêlais /pwa.lɛ/	poêlait /pwa.lɛ/	poêlions /pwa.ljɔ̃/	poêliez /pwa.lje/	poêlaient /pwa.lɛ/
	past historic2	poêlai /pwa.le/	poêlas /pwa.la/	poêla /pwa.la/	poêlâmes /pwa.lam/	poêlâtes /pwa.lat/	poêlèrent /pwa.lɛʁ/
	future	poêlerai /pwal.ʁe/	poêleras /pwal.ʁa/	poêlera /pwal.ʁa/	poêlerons /pwal.ʁɔ̃/	poêlerez /pwal.ʁe/	poêleront /pwal.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	poêlerais /pwal.ʁɛ/	poêlerais /pwal.ʁɛ/	poêlerait /pwal.ʁɛ/	poêlerions /pwa.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	poêleriez /pwa.lə.ʁje/	poêleraient /pwal.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	poêle /pwal/	poêles /pwal/	poêle /pwal/	poêlions /pwa.ljɔ̃/	poêliez /pwa.lje/	poêlent /pwal/
	imperfect2	poêlasse /pwa.las/	poêlasses /pwa.las/	poêlât /pwa.la/	poêlassions /pwa.la.sjɔ̃/	poêlassiez /pwa.la.sje/	poêlassent /pwa.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	poêle /pwal/	—	poêlons /pwa.lɔ̃/	poêlez /pwa.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).

Further reading

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