cailleter

French

Etymology

From caillette +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaj.te/

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Verb

cailleter

1. (intransitive, dated) to gossip, chew the cud

Conjugation

With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.

Conjugation of cailleter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cailleter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cailletant /kaj.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cailleté /kaj.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	caillette or caillète /ka.jɛt/	caillettes or caillètes /ka.jɛt/	caillette or caillète /ka.jɛt/	cailletons /kaj.tɔ̃/	cailletez /kaj.te/	caillettent or caillètent /ka.jɛt/
	imperfect	cailletais /kaj.tɛ/	cailletais /kaj.tɛ/	cailletait /kaj.tɛ/	cailletions /ka.jə.tjɔ̃/	cailletiez /ka.jə.tje/	cailletaient /kaj.tɛ/
	past historic2	cailletai /kaj.te/	cailletas /kaj.ta/	cailleta /kaj.ta/	cailletâmes /kaj.tam/	cailletâtes /kaj.tat/	cailletèrent /kaj.tɛʁ/
	future	cailletterai or caillèterai /ka.jɛ.tʁe/ or /ka.je.tʁe/	cailletteras or caillèteras /ka.jɛ.tʁa/ or /ka.je.tʁa/	caillettera or caillètera /ka.jɛ.tʁa/ or /ka.je.tʁa/	cailletterons or caillèterons /ka.jɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ka.je.tʁɔ̃/	cailletterez or caillèterez /ka.jɛ.tʁe/ or /ka.je.tʁe/	cailletteront or caillèteront /ka.jɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /ka.je.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cailletterais or caillèterais /ka.jɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.je.tʁɛ/	cailletterais or caillèterais /ka.jɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.je.tʁɛ/	cailletterait or caillèterait /ka.jɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.je.tʁɛ/	cailletterions or caillèterions /ka.jɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ka.je.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	cailletteriez or caillèteriez /ka.jɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /ka.je.tə.ʁje/	cailletteraient or caillèteraient /ka.jɛ.tʁɛ/ or /ka.je.tʁɛ/
(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	caillette or caillète /ka.jɛt/	caillettes or caillètes /ka.jɛt/	caillette or caillète /ka.jɛt/	cailletions /ka.jə.tjɔ̃/	cailletiez /ka.jə.tje/	caillettent or caillètent /ka.jɛt/
	imperfect2	cailletasse /kaj.tas/	cailletasses /kaj.tas/	cailletât /kaj.ta/	cailletassions /kaj.ta.sjɔ̃/	cailletassiez /kaj.ta.sje/	cailletassent /kaj.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	caillette or caillète /ka.jɛt/	—	cailletons /kaj.tɔ̃/	cailletez /kaj.te/	—
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

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