abaler

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: abalai, abalé, abalée, abalées, abalés, abalez

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Verb

abaler

1. To bring down

Conjugation

Conjugation of abaler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	abaler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	abalant /a.ba.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		abalé /a.ba.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	abale /a.bal/	abales /a.bal/	abale /a.bal/	abalons /a.ba.lɔ̃/	abalez /a.ba.le/	abalent /a.bal/
	imperfect	abalais /a.ba.lɛ/	abalais /a.ba.lɛ/	abalait /a.ba.lɛ/	abalions /a.ba.ljɔ̃/	abaliez /a.ba.lje/	abalaient /a.ba.lɛ/
	past historic2	abalai /a.ba.le/	abalas /a.ba.la/	abala /a.ba.la/	abalâmes /a.ba.lam/	abalâtes /a.ba.lat/	abalèrent /a.ba.lɛʁ/
	future	abalerai /a.bal.ʁe/	abaleras /a.bal.ʁa/	abalera /a.bal.ʁa/	abalerons /a.bal.ʁɔ̃/	abalerez /a.bal.ʁe/	abaleront /a.bal.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	abalerais /a.bal.ʁɛ/	abalerais /a.bal.ʁɛ/	abalerait /a.bal.ʁɛ/	abalerions /a.ba.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	abaleriez /a.ba.lə.ʁje/	abaleraient /a.bal.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	abale /a.bal/	abales /a.bal/	abale /a.bal/	abalions /a.ba.ljɔ̃/	abaliez /a.ba.lje/	abalent /a.bal/
	imperfect2	abalasse /a.ba.las/	abalasses /a.ba.las/	abalât /a.ba.la/	abalassions /a.ba.la.sjɔ̃/	abalassiez /a.ba.la.sje/	abalassent /a.ba.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	abale /a.bal/	—	abalons /a.ba.lɔ̃/	abalez /a.ba.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).