agneler

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French aigneler, from agnel (“sheep”), from Latin agnellus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ɲə.le/

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Verb

agneler

1. (intransitive, of a sheep) to lamb, to yean

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 agneler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	agneler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	agnelant /a.ɲə.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		agnelé /a.ɲə.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	agnelle or agnèle /a.ɲɛl/	agnelles or agnèles /a.ɲɛl/	agnelle or agnèle /a.ɲɛl/	agnelons /a.ɲə.lɔ̃/	agnelez /a.ɲə.le/	agnellent or agnèlent /a.ɲɛl/
	imperfect	agnelais /a.ɲə.lɛ/	agnelais /a.ɲə.lɛ/	agnelait /a.ɲə.lɛ/	agnelions /a.ɲə.ljɔ̃/	agneliez /a.ɲə.lje/	agnelaient /a.ɲə.lɛ/
	past historic2	agnelai /a.ɲə.le/	agnelas /a.ɲə.la/	agnela /a.ɲə.la/	agnelâmes /a.ɲə.lam/	agnelâtes /a.ɲə.lat/	agnelèrent /a.ɲə.lɛʁ/
	future	agnellerai or agnèlerai /a.ɲɛl.ʁe/	agnelleras or agnèleras /a.ɲɛl.ʁa/	agnellera or agnèlera /a.ɲɛl.ʁa/	agnellerons or agnèlerons /a.ɲɛl.ʁɔ̃/	agnellerez or agnèlerez /a.ɲɛl.ʁe/	agnelleront or agnèleront /a.ɲɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	agnellerais or agnèlerais /a.ɲɛl.ʁɛ/	agnellerais or agnèlerais /a.ɲɛl.ʁɛ/	agnellerait or agnèlerait /a.ɲɛl.ʁɛ/	agnellerions or agnèlerions /a.ɲɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.ɲe.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	agnelleriez or agnèleriez /a.ɲɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /a.ɲe.lə.ʁje/	agnelleraient or agnèleraient /a.ɲɛl.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	agnelle or agnèle /a.ɲɛl/	agnelles or agnèles /a.ɲɛl/	agnelle or agnèle /a.ɲɛl/	agnelions /a.ɲə.ljɔ̃/	agneliez /a.ɲə.lje/	agnellent or agnèlent /a.ɲɛl/
	imperfect2	agnelasse /a.ɲə.las/	agnelasses /a.ɲə.las/	agnelât /a.ɲə.la/	agnelassions /a.ɲə.la.sjɔ̃/	agnelassiez /a.ɲə.la.sje/	agnelassent /a.ɲə.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	agnelle or agnèle /a.ɲɛl/	—	agnelons /a.ɲə.lɔ̃/	agnelez /a.ɲə.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

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

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