parler
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[edit] French
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Verb
parler
- (intransitive) to speak or talk.
- Il ne s'est mis à parler qu'à l'âge de quatre ans.
- Ils ont parlé plusieurs heures avant d'aller se coucher.
- (transitive) to be able to communicate in a language; to speak
- Elle parle couramment le français. -She speaks French fluently
[edit] Conjugation
Conjugation of parler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | parler | avoir parlé | |||||
| gerund | en parlant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | parlant | ||||||
| past participle | parlé | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | parle | parles | parle | parlons | parlez | parlent |
| imperfect | parlais | parlais | parlait | parlions | parliez | parlaient | |
| past historic | parlai | parlas | parla | parlâmes | parlâtes | parlèrent | |
| future | parlerai | parleras | parlera | parlerons | parlerez | parleront | |
| conditional | parlerais | parlerais | parlerait | parlerions | parleriez | parleraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | parle | parles | parle | parlions | parliez | parlent |
| imperfect | parlasse | parlasses | parlât | parlassions | parlassiez | parlassent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | parle | — | parlons | parlez | — | ||