halener

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French alener, from Early Medieval Latin alēnāre, metathesized from Latin anhēlāre (“breathe out, breathe forth”). Compare Catalan and Occitan alenar.

The initial ⟨h⟩ was added by analogy with Latin halāre.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /al.ne/, (also) /a.lɛ.ne/, (also) /a.le.ne/

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Verb

halener

1. (transitive) to scent (detect the scent of another)
2. (transitive) to exhale

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il halène and the third-person singular future indicative il halènera.

Conjugation of halener (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	halener
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	halenant /al.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		halené /al.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	halène /a.lɛn/	halènes /a.lɛn/	halène /a.lɛn/	halenons /al.nɔ̃/	halenez /al.ne/	halènent /a.lɛn/
	imperfect	halenais /al.nɛ/	halenais /al.nɛ/	halenait /al.nɛ/	halenions /a.lə.njɔ̃/	haleniez /a.lə.nje/	halenaient /al.nɛ/
	past historic2	halenai /al.ne/	halenas /al.na/	halena /al.na/	halenâmes /al.nam/	halenâtes /al.nat/	halenèrent /al.nɛʁ/
	future	halènerai /a.lɛn.ʁe/	halèneras /a.lɛn.ʁa/	halènera /a.lɛn.ʁa/	halènerons /a.lɛn.ʁɔ̃/	halènerez /a.lɛn.ʁe/	halèneront /a.lɛn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	halènerais /a.lɛn.ʁɛ/	halènerais /a.lɛn.ʁɛ/	halènerait /a.lɛn.ʁɛ/	halènerions /a.lɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.le.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	halèneriez /a.lɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /a.le.nə.ʁje/	halèneraient /a.lɛn.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	halène /a.lɛn/	halènes /a.lɛn/	halène /a.lɛn/	halenions /a.lə.njɔ̃/	haleniez /a.lə.nje/	halènent /a.lɛn/
	imperfect2	halenasse /al.nas/	halenasses /al.nas/	halenât /al.na/	halenassions /al.na.sjɔ̃/	halenassiez /al.na.sje/	halenassent /al.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	halène /a.lɛn/	—	halenons /al.nɔ̃/	halenez /al.ne/	—
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).

Related terms

• haleine

References

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