pailler

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.je/ ~ /pɑ.je/

Etymology 1

From Latin paleārium, or from Late Latin paleāre, from paleāris.

Noun

pailler m (plural paillers)

1. straw house (a building to store straw)
2. straw pile

Etymology 2

From paille.

Verb

pailler

1. to cover with straw

Conjugation

Conjugation of pailler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pailler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	paillant /pa.jɑ̃/ or /pɑ.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		paillé /pa.je/ or /pɑ.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	paille /paj/ or /pɑj/	pailles /paj/ or /pɑj/	paille /paj/ or /pɑj/	paillons /pa.jɔ̃/ or /pɑ.jɔ̃/	paillez /pa.je/ or /pɑ.je/	paillent /paj/ or /pɑj/
	imperfect	paillais /pa.jɛ/ or /pɑ.jɛ/	paillais /pa.jɛ/ or /pɑ.jɛ/	paillait /pa.jɛ/ or /pɑ.jɛ/	paillions /paj.jɔ̃/ or /pɑj.jɔ̃/	pailliez /paj.je/ or /pɑj.je/	paillaient /pa.jɛ/ or /pɑ.jɛ/
	past historic2	paillai /pa.je/ or /pɑ.je/	paillas /pa.ja/ or /pɑ.ja/	pailla /pa.ja/ or /pɑ.ja/	paillâmes /pa.jam/ or /pɑ.jam/	paillâtes /pa.jat/ or /pɑ.jat/	paillèrent /pa.jɛʁ/ or /pɑ.jɛʁ/
	future	paillerai /paj.ʁe/ or /pɑj.ʁe/	pailleras /paj.ʁa/ or /pɑj.ʁa/	paillera /paj.ʁa/ or /pɑj.ʁa/	paillerons /paj.ʁɔ̃/ or /pɑj.ʁɔ̃/	paillerez /paj.ʁe/ or /pɑj.ʁe/	pailleront /paj.ʁɔ̃/ or /pɑj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	paillerais /paj.ʁɛ/ or /pɑj.ʁɛ/	paillerais /paj.ʁɛ/ or /pɑj.ʁɛ/	paillerait /paj.ʁɛ/ or /pɑj.ʁɛ/	paillerions /pa.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	pailleriez /pa.jə.ʁje/ or /pɑ.jə.ʁje/	pailleraient /paj.ʁɛ/ or /pɑj.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	paille /paj/ or /pɑj/	pailles /paj/ or /pɑj/	paille /paj/ or /pɑj/	paillions /paj.jɔ̃/ or /pɑj.jɔ̃/	pailliez /paj.je/ or /pɑj.je/	paillent /paj/ or /pɑj/
	imperfect2	paillasse /pa.jas/ or /pɑ.jas/	paillasses /pa.jas/ or /pɑ.jas/	paillât /pa.ja/ or /pɑ.ja/	paillassions /pa.ja.sjɔ̃/ or /pɑ.ja.sjɔ̃/	paillassiez /pa.ja.sje/ or /pɑ.ja.sje/	paillassent /pa.jas/ or /pɑ.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	paille /paj/ or /pɑj/	—	paillons /pa.jɔ̃/ or /pɑ.jɔ̃/	paillez /pa.je/ or /pɑ.je/	—
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

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