chialer

French

Alternative forms

• chiâler (Canada)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Europe) /ʃja.le/
• IPA^(key): (Canada) /ʃja.le/ ~ /ʃjɑ.le/

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Verb

chialer

1. (informal, usually derogatory) to cry
2. (Canada, informal) to complain
   • 1999, Chrystine Brouillet, Les Fiancées de l'Enfer, →ISBN, page 69:

     "Elle va encore chialer parce qu’on a oublié quelque chose."

     She's going to complain again because we've forgotten something.

Conjugation

Conjugation of chialer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chialer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	chialant /ʃja.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		chialé /ʃja.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	chiale /ʃjal/	chiales /ʃjal/	chiale /ʃjal/	chialons /ʃja.lɔ̃/	chialez /ʃja.le/	chialent /ʃjal/
	imperfect	chialais /ʃja.lɛ/	chialais /ʃja.lɛ/	chialait /ʃja.lɛ/	chialions /ʃja.ljɔ̃/	chialiez /ʃja.lje/	chialaient /ʃja.lɛ/
	past historic2	chialai /ʃja.le/	chialas /ʃja.la/	chiala /ʃja.la/	chialâmes /ʃja.lam/	chialâtes /ʃja.lat/	chialèrent /ʃja.lɛʁ/
	future	chialerai /ʃjal.ʁe/	chialeras /ʃjal.ʁa/	chialera /ʃjal.ʁa/	chialerons /ʃjal.ʁɔ̃/	chialerez /ʃjal.ʁe/	chialeront /ʃjal.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chialerais /ʃjal.ʁɛ/	chialerais /ʃjal.ʁɛ/	chialerait /ʃjal.ʁɛ/	chialerions /ʃja.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	chialeriez /ʃja.lə.ʁje/	chialeraient /ʃjal.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	chiale /ʃjal/	chiales /ʃjal/	chiale /ʃjal/	chialions /ʃja.ljɔ̃/	chialiez /ʃja.lje/	chialent /ʃjal/
	imperfect2	chialasse /ʃja.las/	chialasses /ʃja.las/	chialât /ʃja.la/	chialassions /ʃja.la.sjɔ̃/	chialassiez /ʃja.la.sje/	chialassent /ʃja.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	chiale /ʃjal/	—	chialons /ʃja.lɔ̃/	chialez /ʃja.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

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