exhaler

English

Etymology

exhale +‎ -er

Noun

exhaler (plural exhalers)

1. One who exhales.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exhālāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.za.le/

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Verb

exhaler

1. to exhale
2. to give off (e.g. an odor)
3. to let out, let slip (e.g. a secret)
4. to let out (e.g. of an instrument, to emit a sound)

Conjugation

Conjugation of exhaler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	exhaler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	exhalant /ɛɡ.za.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		exhalé /ɛɡ.za.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	exhale /ɛɡ.zal/	exhales /ɛɡ.zal/	exhale /ɛɡ.zal/	exhalons /ɛɡ.za.lɔ̃/	exhalez /ɛɡ.za.le/	exhalent /ɛɡ.zal/
	imperfect	exhalais /ɛɡ.za.lɛ/	exhalais /ɛɡ.za.lɛ/	exhalait /ɛɡ.za.lɛ/	exhalions /ɛɡ.za.ljɔ̃/	exhaliez /ɛɡ.za.lje/	exhalaient /ɛɡ.za.lɛ/
	past historic2	exhalai /ɛɡ.za.le/	exhalas /ɛɡ.za.la/	exhala /ɛɡ.za.la/	exhalâmes /ɛɡ.za.lam/	exhalâtes /ɛɡ.za.lat/	exhalèrent /ɛɡ.za.lɛʁ/
	future	exhalerai /ɛɡ.zal.ʁe/	exhaleras /ɛɡ.zal.ʁa/	exhalera /ɛɡ.zal.ʁa/	exhalerons /ɛɡ.zal.ʁɔ̃/	exhalerez /ɛɡ.zal.ʁe/	exhaleront /ɛɡ.zal.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	exhalerais /ɛɡ.zal.ʁɛ/	exhalerais /ɛɡ.zal.ʁɛ/	exhalerait /ɛɡ.zal.ʁɛ/	exhalerions /ɛɡ.za.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	exhaleriez /ɛɡ.za.lə.ʁje/	exhaleraient /ɛɡ.zal.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	exhale /ɛɡ.zal/	exhales /ɛɡ.zal/	exhale /ɛɡ.zal/	exhalions /ɛɡ.za.ljɔ̃/	exhaliez /ɛɡ.za.lje/	exhalent /ɛɡ.zal/
	imperfect2	exhalasse /ɛɡ.za.las/	exhalasses /ɛɡ.za.las/	exhalât /ɛɡ.za.la/	exhalassions /ɛɡ.za.la.sjɔ̃/	exhalassiez /ɛɡ.za.la.sje/	exhalassent /ɛɡ.za.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	exhale /ɛɡ.zal/	—	exhalons /ɛɡ.za.lɔ̃/	exhalez /ɛɡ.za.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).

Related terms

• exhalation

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

exhāler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of exhālō