chalêr
See also: chaler
Franco-Provençal
Etymology
From Latin calēre, present active infinitive of caleō (“I heat”). Compare French chaloir, Occitan caler.
Pronunciation
Verb
chalêr
- (impersonal, reflexive, sé chalêr) to bother, to worry
- 1733, André Blanc, La Goutte
- Quand bien ne vos chôt ren, de les gens de ma sôrta, je vodrê bien povêr fâre uvrir voutra pôrta
- Even though you do not care about the people of my kind, I would like to open your doors
- Quand bien ne vos chôt ren, de les gens de ma sôrta, je vodrê bien povêr fâre uvrir voutra pôrta
- 1733, André Blanc, La Goutte
Usage notes
- This verb conjugates as falêr, it is nowadays mainly surviving under its present indicative form in the common phrase o/il mè chôt (I care about, I am concerned with).
Conjugation
ORB Supradialectale (Standard Franco-Provençal)| infinitive | chalêr | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gerund | chalent | ||||||
| auxiliary | — | ||||||
| past participle | masculine | feminine | |||||
| singular | — | — | |||||
| plural | — | — | |||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | ||
| indicative | — | — | o | — | — | — | |
| present | — | — | chôt | — | — | — | |
| imperfect | — | — | chaléve | — | — | — | |
| imperfect (-ê-) | — | — | chalêt | — | — | — | |
| preterite | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| future | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| conditional | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| subjunctive | — | — | qu'o | — | — | — | |
| present | — | — | châlye | — | — | — | |
| imperfect | — | — | chalésse | — | — | — | |
| imperative | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| — | — | — | |||||