peler

French

Etymology

From Old French peler, from Late Latin pilāre, present active infinitive of pilō (“remove hair, depilate”), from Latin pilus, perhaps influenced by Old French pel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pə.le/

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Verb

peler

1. to peel

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il pèle rather than *il pele. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.

Conjugation of peler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	peler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pelant /pə.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pelé /pə.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pèle /pɛl/	pèles /pɛl/	pèle /pɛl/	pelons /pə.lɔ̃/	pelez /pə.le/	pèlent /pɛl/
	imperfect	pelais /pə.lɛ/	pelais /pə.lɛ/	pelait /pə.lɛ/	pelions /pə.ljɔ̃/	peliez /pə.lje/	pelaient /pə.lɛ/
	past historic2	pelai /pə.le/	pelas /pə.la/	pela /pə.la/	pelâmes /pə.lam/	pelâtes /pə.lat/	pelèrent /pə.lɛʁ/
	future	pèlerai /pɛl.ʁe/	pèleras /pɛl.ʁa/	pèlera /pɛl.ʁa/	pèlerons /pɛl.ʁɔ̃/	pèlerez /pɛl.ʁe/	pèleront /pɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pèlerais /pɛl.ʁɛ/	pèlerais /pɛl.ʁɛ/	pèlerait /pɛl.ʁɛ/	pèlerions /pɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pe.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	pèleriez /pɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /pe.lə.ʁje/	pèleraient /pɛl.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	pèle /pɛl/	pèles /pɛl/	pèle /pɛl/	pelions /pə.ljɔ̃/	peliez /pə.lje/	pèlent /pɛl/
	imperfect2	pelasse /pə.las/	pelasses /pə.las/	pelât /pə.la/	pelassions /pə.la.sjɔ̃/	pelassiez /pə.la.sje/	pelassent /pə.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pèle /pɛl/	—	pelons /pə.lɔ̃/	pelez /pə.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

• avoir un œuf à peler
• trois pelés et un tondu

Further reading

• “peler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Comment-conjuguer.fr - online conjugation of "peler"

Anagrams

• lèpre, perle, prèle, prêle

Indonesian

Etymology

Informal alternative form of pelir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈler/

Noun

peler

1. (slang, extremely vulgar) cock, dick, prick, schlong (the penis)

Usage notes

• Only used as a slang. Never in scientific and medical contexts.
• Considered harsher than kontol & titit.

Norman

Verb

peler

1. Alternative form of p'ler (“to peel”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

peler m

1. indefinite plural of pel