achaler

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French achaillir, achaloir (“heat up”), compare modern french chaloir (“to matter”) and dialectal chaler (“to heat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ʃa.le/

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Verb

achaler

1. (Canada, informal) to annoy, harass, badger
   • 1945, Gabrielle Roy, Bonheur d'occasion, Éditions Pascal, p. 69, (trans. Alan Brown, The Tin Flute, 1980)

     Ça fait donc qu’a nous achale pour qu’on achète ses bebelles.

     So they dun it into our ears that we gotta buy all their junk.

   • 2009, Novembre 13, Maxime Deland, "Battu à coups de pierres", 24H Montréal, p. 8,

     La victime tentait de venir en aide à une dame qui se faisait achaler par les jeunes.

     The victim attempted to assist a woman who was being harassed by the youths.

Conjugation

Conjugation of achaler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	achaler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	achalant /a.ʃa.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		achalé /a.ʃa.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	achale /a.ʃal/	achales /a.ʃal/	achale /a.ʃal/	achalons /a.ʃa.lɔ̃/	achalez /a.ʃa.le/	achalent /a.ʃal/
	imperfect	achalais /a.ʃa.lɛ/	achalais /a.ʃa.lɛ/	achalait /a.ʃa.lɛ/	achalions /a.ʃa.ljɔ̃/	achaliez /a.ʃa.lje/	achalaient /a.ʃa.lɛ/
	past historic2	achalai /a.ʃa.le/	achalas /a.ʃa.la/	achala /a.ʃa.la/	achalâmes /a.ʃa.lam/	achalâtes /a.ʃa.lat/	achalèrent /a.ʃa.lɛʁ/
	future	achalerai /a.ʃal.ʁe/	achaleras /a.ʃal.ʁa/	achalera /a.ʃal.ʁa/	achalerons /a.ʃal.ʁɔ̃/	achalerez /a.ʃal.ʁe/	achaleront /a.ʃal.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	achalerais /a.ʃal.ʁɛ/	achalerais /a.ʃal.ʁɛ/	achalerait /a.ʃal.ʁɛ/	achalerions /a.ʃa.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	achaleriez /a.ʃa.lə.ʁje/	achaleraient /a.ʃal.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	achale /a.ʃal/	achales /a.ʃal/	achale /a.ʃal/	achalions /a.ʃa.ljɔ̃/	achaliez /a.ʃa.lje/	achalent /a.ʃal/
	imperfect2	achalasse /a.ʃa.las/	achalasses /a.ʃa.las/	achalât /a.ʃa.la/	achalassions /a.ʃa.la.sjɔ̃/	achalassiez /a.ʃa.la.sje/	achalassent /a.ʃa.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	achale /a.ʃal/	—	achalons /a.ʃa.lɔ̃/	achalez /a.ʃa.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).

Derived terms

• achalant
• achalanterie
• achalement
• réachaler

 

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• harcela
• lâchera
• relâcha