taveler

French edit

Etymology edit

Deverbal from Old French tavelle, from Latin tabella.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ta.vle/
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Verb edit

taveler

to become spotted, or speckled (referring to the skin of certain animals)
La peau de cet animal commence à se taveler.
The skin of this animal has started to speckle.

Conjugation edit

With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.

Conjugation of taveler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	taveler
present participle or gerund¹	simple	tavelant /ta.vlɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		tavelé /ta.vle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	tavelle or tavèle /ta.vɛl/	tavelles or tavèles /ta.vɛl/	tavelle or tavèle /ta.vɛl/	tavelons /ta.vlɔ̃/	tavelez /ta.vle/	tavellent or tavèlent /ta.vɛl/
	imperfect	tavelais /ta.vlɛ/	tavelais /ta.vlɛ/	tavelait /ta.vlɛ/	tavelions /ta.və.ljɔ̃/	taveliez /ta.və.lje/	tavelaient /ta.vlɛ/
	past historic²	tavelai /ta.vle/	tavelas /ta.vla/	tavela /ta.vla/	tavelâmes /ta.vlam/	tavelâtes /ta.vlat/	tavelèrent /ta.vlɛʁ/
	future	tavellerai or tavèlerai /ta.vɛl.ʁe/	tavelleras or tavèleras /ta.vɛl.ʁa/	tavellera or tavèlera /ta.vɛl.ʁa/	tavellerons or tavèlerons /ta.vɛl.ʁɔ̃/	tavellerez or tavèlerez /ta.vɛl.ʁe/	tavelleront or tavèleront /ta.vɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	tavellerais or tavèlerais /ta.vɛl.ʁɛ/	tavellerais or tavèlerais /ta.vɛl.ʁɛ/	tavellerait or tavèlerait /ta.vɛl.ʁɛ/	tavellerions or tavèlerions /ta.vɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ta.ve.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	tavelleriez or tavèleriez /ta.vɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /ta.ve.lə.ʁje/	tavelleraient or tavèleraient /ta.vɛl.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	tavelle or tavèle /ta.vɛl/	tavelles or tavèles /ta.vɛl/	tavelle or tavèle /ta.vɛl/	tavelions /ta.və.ljɔ̃/	taveliez /ta.və.lje/	tavellent or tavèlent /ta.vɛl/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	tavelasse /ta.vlas/	tavelasses /ta.vlas/	tavelât /ta.vla/	tavelassions /ta.vla.sjɔ̃/	tavelassiez /ta.vla.sje/	tavelassent /ta.vlas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	tavelle or tavèle /ta.vɛl/	—	tavelons /ta.vlɔ̃/	tavelez /ta.vle/	—
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).