coller

See also: Coller

French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.le/

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Verb

coller

1. to stick, to glue

   Coller une image sur un mur.

   To stick an image on a wall

se coller

1. (reflexive) To be sticky; to stick

Conjugation

Conjugation of coller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	coller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	collant /kɔ.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		collé /kɔ.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	colle /kɔl/	colles /kɔl/	colle /kɔl/	collons /kɔ.lɔ̃/	collez /kɔ.le/	collent /kɔl/
	imperfect	collais /kɔ.lɛ/	collais /kɔ.lɛ/	collait /kɔ.lɛ/	collions /kɔ.ljɔ̃/	colliez /kɔ.lje/	collaient /kɔ.lɛ/
	past historic2	collai /kɔ.le/	collas /kɔ.la/	colla /kɔ.la/	collâmes /kɔ.lam/	collâtes /kɔ.lat/	collèrent /kɔ.lɛʁ/
	future	collerai /kɔl.ʁe/	colleras /kɔl.ʁa/	collera /kɔl.ʁa/	collerons /kɔl.ʁɔ̃/	collerez /kɔl.ʁe/	colleront /kɔl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	collerais /kɔl.ʁɛ/	collerais /kɔl.ʁɛ/	collerait /kɔl.ʁɛ/	collerions /kɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	colleriez /kɔ.lə.ʁje/	colleraient /kɔl.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	colle /kɔl/	colles /kɔl/	colle /kɔl/	collions /kɔ.ljɔ̃/	colliez /kɔ.lje/	collent /kɔl/
	imperfect2	collasse /kɔ.las/	collasses /kɔ.las/	collât /kɔ.la/	collassions /kɔ.la.sjɔ̃/	collassiez /kɔ.la.sje/	collassent /kɔ.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	colle /kɔl/	—	collons /kɔ.lɔ̃/	collez /kɔ.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

• collant

Further reading

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

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese coller, from Latin colligere, present active infinitive of colligō. Cognate with Portuguese colher and Spanish coger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈʎeɾ/

Verb

1. (transitive) to grab, to seize

   Synonyms: agarrar, tomar

2. (transitive) to pick up, to collect

   Synonyms: apañar, recoller

3. (transitive) to catch, to capture

   Synonyms: pillar, trincar

4. (transitive) to surprise

   Synonym: cachar

5. (transitive) to reach

   Synonym: alcanzar

6. (intransitive or takes a reflexive pronoun) to spoil; to get infected
7. (intransitive, of cows) to become pregnant
8. (transitive with para) to go to, to leave in direction to

Derived terms

• coller medo
• coller no colo

Related terms

• colleita
• colleito
• escoller
• recoller

References

• Template:R:DDGM
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “coller”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Template:R:DDLG
• Template:R:TILG
• “coller” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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Middle English

Noun

coller

1. Alternative form of coler (“collar”)