relier
English
Etymology
Noun
relier (plural reliers)
- One who relies.
French
Etymology
From re- + lier, or from Latin religāre. Found in Old French as reloier.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.lje/
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Verb
relier
- to connect, link, join, relate to
- Ce problème est relié à un produit inférieur.
- This problem is linked to an inferior product.
- to bind (as a book)
- Mon livre est relié en cuir.
- My book is leather-bound.
- to hoop together (as a barrel)
Conjugation
Conjugation of relier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | relier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | reliant /ʁə.ljɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | relié /ʁə.lje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | relie /ʁə.li/ |
relies /ʁə.li/ |
relie /ʁə.li/ |
relions /ʁə.ljɔ̃/ |
reliez /ʁə.lje/ |
relient /ʁə.li/ |
| imperfect | reliais /ʁə.ljɛ/ |
reliais /ʁə.ljɛ/ |
reliait /ʁə.ljɛ/ |
reliions /ʁə.li.jɔ̃/ |
reliiez /ʁə.li.je/ |
reliaient /ʁə.ljɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | reliai /ʁə.lje/ |
relias /ʁə.lja/ |
relia /ʁə.lja/ |
reliâmes /ʁə.ljam/ |
reliâtes /ʁə.ljat/ |
relièrent /ʁə.ljɛʁ/ | |
| future | relierai /ʁə.li.ʁe/ |
relieras /ʁə.li.ʁa/ |
reliera /ʁə.li.ʁa/ |
relierons /ʁə.li.ʁɔ̃/ |
relierez /ʁə.li.ʁe/ |
relieront /ʁə.li.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | relierais /ʁə.li.ʁɛ/ |
relierais /ʁə.li.ʁɛ/ |
relierait /ʁə.li.ʁɛ/ |
relierions /ʁə.li.ʁjɔ̃/ |
relieriez /ʁə.li.ʁje/ |
relieraient /ʁə.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 | relie /ʁə.li/ |
relies /ʁə.li/ |
relie /ʁə.li/ |
reliions /ʁə.li.jɔ̃/ |
reliiez /ʁə.li.je/ |
relient /ʁə.li/ |
| imperfect2 | reliasse /ʁə.ljas/ |
reliasses /ʁə.ljas/ |
reliât /ʁə.lja/ |
reliassions /ʁə.lja.sjɔ̃/ |
reliassiez /ʁə.lja.sje/ |
reliassent /ʁə.ljas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | relie /ʁə.li/ |
— | relions /ʁə.ljɔ̃/ |
reliez /ʁə.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “relier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012