cajoler
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
Noun
cajoler (plural cajolers)
- A person who cajoles; a flatterer.
- (linguistics) A speech act intended to persuade or convince, such as the utterance "you know".
French
Etymology
Probably a blend of Middle French cageoler (“chatter like a jay”) (from gajole, dialectal diminutive of geai (“jaybird”)) + Old French gaioler (“entice into a cage”), from gaiole, which is from Late Latin caveola, diminutive from Latin cavea (“cage, coop, enclosure, stall”).
Pronunciation
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Conjugation
Conjugation of cajoler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cajoler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cajolant /ka.ʒɔ.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cajolé /ka.ʒɔ.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cajole /ka.ʒɔl/ |
cajoles /ka.ʒɔl/ |
cajole /ka.ʒɔl/ |
cajolons /ka.ʒɔ.lɔ̃/ |
cajolez /ka.ʒɔ.le/ |
cajolent /ka.ʒɔl/ |
| imperfect | cajolais /ka.ʒɔ.lɛ/ |
cajolais /ka.ʒɔ.lɛ/ |
cajolait /ka.ʒɔ.lɛ/ |
cajolions /ka.ʒɔ.ljɔ̃/ |
cajoliez /ka.ʒɔ.lje/ |
cajolaient /ka.ʒɔ.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cajolai /ka.ʒɔ.le/ |
cajolas /ka.ʒɔ.la/ |
cajola /ka.ʒɔ.la/ |
cajolâmes /ka.ʒɔ.lam/ |
cajolâtes /ka.ʒɔ.lat/ |
cajolèrent /ka.ʒɔ.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | cajolerai /ka.ʒɔl.ʁe/ |
cajoleras /ka.ʒɔl.ʁa/ |
cajolera /ka.ʒɔl.ʁa/ |
cajolerons /ka.ʒɔl.ʁɔ̃/ |
cajolerez /ka.ʒɔl.ʁe/ |
cajoleront /ka.ʒɔl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cajolerais /ka.ʒɔl.ʁɛ/ |
cajolerais /ka.ʒɔl.ʁɛ/ |
cajolerait /ka.ʒɔl.ʁɛ/ |
cajolerions /ka.ʒɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cajoleriez /ka.ʒɔ.lə.ʁje/ |
cajoleraient /ka.ʒɔl.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 | cajole /ka.ʒɔl/ |
cajoles /ka.ʒɔl/ |
cajole /ka.ʒɔl/ |
cajolions /ka.ʒɔ.ljɔ̃/ |
cajoliez /ka.ʒɔ.lje/ |
cajolent /ka.ʒɔl/ |
| imperfect2 | cajolasse /ka.ʒɔ.las/ |
cajolasses /ka.ʒɔ.las/ |
cajolât /ka.ʒɔ.la/ |
cajolassions /ka.ʒɔ.la.sjɔ̃/ |
cajolassiez /ka.ʒɔ.la.sje/ |
cajolassent /ka.ʒɔ.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cajole /ka.ʒɔl/ |
— | cajolons /ka.ʒɔ.lɔ̃/ |
cajolez /ka.ʒɔ.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
- “cajoler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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