cailler

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French quailler, coaillier, from Vulgar Latin *coaglāre/ *quaglāre, from syncopation of Latin coāgulāre. Doublet of coaguler, which was borrowed.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ka.je/ ~ /kɑ.je/
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Homophone: cahier

Verb

cailler

to curdle, clot
(slang, impersonal) to be very cold, to be brass monkeys
Ça caille ici ! ― It's bloody freezing here!
(slang, intransitive) to be very cold, to freeze
Il fait combien ici ? Je caille.
What's the temperature? I'm freezing.

Conjugation

Conjugation of cailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	cailler
present participle or gerund¹	simple	caillant /ka.jɑ̃/ or /kɑ.jɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		caillé /ka.je/ or /kɑ.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	caille /kaj/ or /kɑj/	cailles /kaj/ or /kɑj/	caille /kaj/ or /kɑj/	caillons /ka.jɔ̃/ or /kɑ.jɔ̃/	caillez /ka.je/ or /kɑ.je/	caillent /kaj/ or /kɑj/
	imperfect	caillais /ka.jɛ/ or /kɑ.jɛ/	caillais /ka.jɛ/ or /kɑ.jɛ/	caillait /ka.jɛ/ or /kɑ.jɛ/	caillions /kaj.jɔ̃/ or /kɑj.jɔ̃/	cailliez /kaj.je/ or /kɑj.je/	caillaient /ka.jɛ/ or /kɑ.jɛ/
	past historic²	caillai /ka.je/ or /kɑ.je/	caillas /ka.ja/ or /kɑ.ja/	cailla /ka.ja/ or /kɑ.ja/	caillâmes /ka.jam/ or /kɑ.jam/	caillâtes /ka.jat/ or /kɑ.jat/	caillèrent /ka.jɛʁ/ or /kɑ.jɛʁ/
	future	caillerai /kaj.ʁe/ or /kɑj.ʁe/	cailleras /kaj.ʁa/ or /kɑj.ʁa/	caillera /kaj.ʁa/ or /kɑj.ʁa/	caillerons /kaj.ʁɔ̃/ or /kɑj.ʁɔ̃/	caillerez /kaj.ʁe/ or /kɑj.ʁe/	cailleront /kaj.ʁɔ̃/ or /kɑj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	caillerais /kaj.ʁɛ/ or /kɑj.ʁɛ/	caillerais /kaj.ʁɛ/ or /kɑj.ʁɛ/	caillerait /kaj.ʁɛ/ or /kɑj.ʁɛ/	caillerions /ka.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kɑ.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	cailleriez /ka.jə.ʁje/ or /kɑ.jə.ʁje/	cailleraient /kaj.ʁɛ/ or /kɑj.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	caille /kaj/ or /kɑj/	cailles /kaj/ or /kɑj/	caille /kaj/ or /kɑj/	caillions /kaj.jɔ̃/ or /kɑj.jɔ̃/	cailliez /kaj.je/ or /kɑj.je/	caillent /kaj/ or /kɑj/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	caillasse /ka.jas/ or /kɑ.jas/	caillasses /ka.jas/ or /kɑ.jas/	caillât /ka.ja/ or /kɑ.ja/	caillassions /ka.ja.sjɔ̃/ or /kɑ.ja.sjɔ̃/	caillassiez /ka.ja.sje/ or /kɑ.ja.sje/	caillassent /ka.jas/ or /kɑ.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	caille /kaj/ or /kɑj/	—	caillons /ka.jɔ̃/ or /kɑ.jɔ̃/	caillez /ka.je/ or /kɑ.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: 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).

Related terms

Descendants

→ Alemannic German: kale

Anagrams

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