allier

See also: Allier

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French alier, from Latin alligāre. Doublet of the form aloyer, from the Old French variant aloiier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.lje/

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Verb

allier

1. to ally
2. to alloy

Conjugation

Conjugation of allier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	allier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	alliant /a.ljɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		allié /a.lje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	allie /a.li/	allies /a.li/	allie /a.li/	allions /a.ljɔ̃/	alliez /a.lje/	allient /a.li/
	imperfect	alliais /a.ljɛ/	alliais /a.ljɛ/	alliait /a.ljɛ/	alliions /a.li.jɔ̃/	alliiez /a.li.je/	alliaient /a.ljɛ/
	past historic2	alliai /a.lje/	allias /a.lja/	allia /a.lja/	alliâmes /a.ljam/	alliâtes /a.ljat/	allièrent /a.ljɛʁ/
	future	allierai /a.li.ʁe/	allieras /a.li.ʁa/	alliera /a.li.ʁa/	allierons /a.li.ʁɔ̃/	allierez /a.li.ʁe/	allieront /a.li.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	allierais /a.li.ʁɛ/	allierais /a.li.ʁɛ/	allierait /a.li.ʁɛ/	allierions /a.li.ʁjɔ̃/	allieriez /a.li.ʁje/	allieraient /a.li.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	allie /a.li/	allies /a.li/	allie /a.li/	alliions /a.li.jɔ̃/	alliiez /a.li.je/	allient /a.li/
	imperfect2	alliasse /a.ljas/	alliasses /a.ljas/	alliât /a.lja/	alliassions /a.lja.sjɔ̃/	alliassiez /a.lja.sje/	alliassent /a.ljas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	allie /a.li/	—	allions /a.ljɔ̃/	alliez /a.lje/	—
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).

Derived terms

• alliage
• alliance
• allié

Descendants

• → Dutch: alliëren

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• ailler, raille, raillé, rallie, rallié

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

allier

1. imperative of alliere