marteler
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French [Term?], inherited from Old French marteler, from martel (old form of marteau (“hammer”)) + -er. Compare to English martel, Dutch martelen.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]marteler (transitive)
- to strike with a hammer; to hammer
- to shape or forge with a hammer
- 2014, Thierry Declecq, Mémoires d'un tas de charbon:
- De retour dans son atelier, il inspecta pour la mille et unième fois les lettres qu’il avait si langoureusement martelées.
- Returning to his workshop, he inspected for the thousand and first time the letters that he had so laborously carved.
- to emphasise individual elements such as words or notes
- Il martèle chaque syllabe. ― He stresses every syllable.
- to repeat insistently
- 2023, “Guerre en Ukraine : Poutine qualifie Zelensky de «honte pour le peuple juif»”, in Le Figaro[1]:
- Vladimir Poutine a une fois encore accusé le président ukrainien de «couvrir ces salauds de néonazis» et de traiter en héros des collaborateurs des nazis durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. «Pourquoi on ne nous écoute pas ?», a-t-il demandé. «Nous sommes obligés de lutter contre ça», a-t-il martelé.
- Vladimir Putin once again accused the Ukrainian president of "covering for these Neo-Nazi wretches" and of treating Nazi collaborators during the Second World War as heroes. "Why do people not listen to us?" He asked. "We must struggle against this", he repeated.
- (figurative) to trouble; to bother; to worry
- Cette affaire me martèle. ― This business bothers me.
Conjugation
[edit]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 martèle and the third-person singular future indicative il martèlera.
infinitive | simple | marteler | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | martelant /maʁ.tə.lɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | martelé /maʁ.tə.le/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | martèle /maʁ.tɛl/ |
martèles /maʁ.tɛl/ |
martèle /maʁ.tɛl/ |
martelons /maʁ.tə.lɔ̃/ |
martelez /maʁ.tə.le/ |
martèlent /maʁ.tɛl/ |
imperfect | martelais /maʁ.tə.lɛ/ |
martelais /maʁ.tə.lɛ/ |
martelait /maʁ.tə.lɛ/ |
martelions /maʁ.tə.ljɔ̃/ |
marteliez /maʁ.tə.lje/ |
martelaient /maʁ.tə.lɛ/ | |
past historic2 | martelai /maʁ.tə.le/ |
martelas /maʁ.tə.la/ |
martela /maʁ.tə.la/ |
martelâmes /maʁ.tə.lam/ |
martelâtes /maʁ.tə.lat/ |
martelèrent /maʁ.tə.lɛʁ/ | |
future | martèlerai /maʁ.tɛl.ʁe/ |
martèleras /maʁ.tɛl.ʁa/ |
martèlera /maʁ.tɛl.ʁa/ |
martèlerons /maʁ.tɛl.ʁɔ̃/ |
martèlerez /maʁ.tɛl.ʁe/ |
martèleront /maʁ.tɛl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | martèlerais /maʁ.tɛl.ʁɛ/ |
martèlerais /maʁ.tɛl.ʁɛ/ |
martèlerait /maʁ.tɛl.ʁɛ/ |
martèlerions /maʁ.tɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /maʁ.te.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
martèleriez /maʁ.tɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /maʁ.te.lə.ʁje/ |
martèleraient /maʁ.tɛl.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 | martèle /maʁ.tɛl/ |
martèles /maʁ.tɛl/ |
martèle /maʁ.tɛl/ |
martelions /maʁ.tə.ljɔ̃/ |
marteliez /maʁ.tə.lje/ |
martèlent /maʁ.tɛl/ |
imperfect2 | martelasse /maʁ.tə.las/ |
martelasses /maʁ.tə.las/ |
martelât /maʁ.tə.la/ |
martelassions /maʁ.tə.la.sjɔ̃/ |
martelassiez /maʁ.tə.la.sje/ |
martelassent /maʁ.tə.las/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | martèle /maʁ.tɛl/ |
— | martelons /maʁ.tə.lɔ̃/ |
martelez /maʁ.tə.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Further reading
[edit]- “marteler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]marteler
Conjugation
[edit]This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-els, *-elt are modified to eaus, eaut. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | marteler | avoir martelé | |||||
gerund | en martelant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | martelant | ||||||
past participle | martelé | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | martel | marteles | martele | martelons | martelez | martelent |
imperfect | marteloie, marteleie, marteloe, marteleve | marteloies, marteleies, marteloes, marteleves | marteloit, marteleit, martelot, marteleve | marteliiens, marteliens | marteliiez, marteliez | marteloient, marteleient, marteloent, martelevent | |
preterite | martelai | martelas | martela | martelames | martelastes | martelerent | |
future | martelerai | marteleras | martelera | martelerons | marteleroiz, martelereiz, martelerez | marteleront | |
conditional | marteleroie, martelereie | marteleroies, martelereies | marteleroit, martelereit | marteleriiens, marteleriens | marteleriiez, marteleriez | marteleroient, martelereient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | martel | marteaus | marteaut | martelons | martelez | martelent |
imperfect | martelasse | martelasses | martelast | martelissons, martelissiens | martelissoiz, martelissez, martelissiez | martelassent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | martele | — | martelons | martelez | — |
Descendants
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