peller

See also: Peller

French

Etymology

pelle +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɛ.le/ ~ /pe.le/

Verb

peller

1. to shovel (to move materials with a shovel)

Conjugation

Conjugation of peller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	peller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pellant /pɛ.lɑ̃/ or /pe.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pellé /pɛ.le/ or /pe.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pelle /pɛl/	pelles /pɛl/	pelle /pɛl/	pellons /pɛ.lɔ̃/ or /pe.lɔ̃/	pellez /pɛ.le/ or /pe.le/	pellent /pɛl/
	imperfect	pellais /pɛ.lɛ/ or /pe.lɛ/	pellais /pɛ.lɛ/ or /pe.lɛ/	pellait /pɛ.lɛ/ or /pe.lɛ/	pellions /pɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /pe.ljɔ̃/	pelliez /pɛ.lje/ or /pe.lje/	pellaient /pɛ.lɛ/ or /pe.lɛ/
	past historic2	pellai /pɛ.le/ or /pe.le/	pellas /pɛ.la/ or /pe.la/	pella /pɛ.la/ or /pe.la/	pellâmes /pɛ.lam/ or /pe.lam/	pellâtes /pɛ.lat/ or /pe.lat/	pellèrent /pɛ.lɛʁ/ or /pe.lɛʁ/
	future	pellerai /pɛl.ʁe/	pelleras /pɛl.ʁa/	pellera /pɛl.ʁa/	pellerons /pɛl.ʁɔ̃/	pellerez /pɛl.ʁe/	pelleront /pɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pellerais /pɛl.ʁɛ/	pellerais /pɛl.ʁɛ/	pellerait /pɛl.ʁɛ/	pellerions /pɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pe.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	pelleriez /pɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /pe.lə.ʁje/	pelleraient /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	pelle /pɛl/	pelles /pɛl/	pelle /pɛl/	pellions /pɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /pe.ljɔ̃/	pelliez /pɛ.lje/ or /pe.lje/	pellent /pɛl/
	imperfect2	pellasse /pɛ.las/ or /pe.las/	pellasses /pɛ.las/ or /pe.las/	pellât /pɛ.la/ or /pe.la/	pellassions /pɛ.la.sjɔ̃/ or /pe.la.sjɔ̃/	pellassiez /pɛ.la.sje/ or /pe.la.sje/	pellassent /pɛ.las/ or /pe.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pelle /pɛl/	—	pellons /pɛ.lɔ̃/ or /pe.lɔ̃/	pellez /pɛ.le/ or /pe.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).

Further reading

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