colle ( “ glue ” ) +-er . First attested in 1320.
coller
( transitive ) tostick (together), toglue coller une image sur un mur ―tostick an image on a wall Le sang avaitcollé ses cheveux. ―The blood hadstuck his hairtogether . ( transitive ) toapproach too closely ; to betoo close Ne tecolle pas comme ça à moi ! ―Don'tstick to me like that! Une voiture commence à mecoller . ―A car is starting tofollow metoo closely . ( transitive , colloquial ) toplace ( transitive , colloquial ) togive ; tohand over ( intransitive ) tofit well ; tosuit ( intransitive , slang ) to bedumbfounded ; to be in adaze Arrête decoller , réveille toi. ―Stop beingin a daze , wake up. ( reflexive ) to besticky ; tostick se coller au plafond ―tostick to the ceiling ( reflexive , slang ) to have anaffair se coller avec une poulette ―tohave an affair with a chick infinitive simple coller compound avoir + past participlepresent participle orgerund 1 simple collant /kɔ.lɑ̃/ compound ayant + past participlepast participle collé /kɔ.le/ singular plural first second third first second third indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles (simple tenses) present colle /kɔl/ colles /kɔl/ colle /kɔl/ collons /kɔ.lɔ̃/ collez /kɔ.le/ collent /kɔl/ imperfect collais /kɔ.lɛ/ collais /kɔ.lɛ/ collait /kɔ.lɛ/ collions /kɔ.ljɔ̃/ colliez /kɔ.lje/ collaient /kɔ.lɛ/ past historic 2 collai /kɔ.le/ collas /kɔ.la/ colla /kɔ.la/ collâmes /kɔ.lam/ collâtes /kɔ.lat/ collèrent /kɔ.lɛʁ/ future collerai /kɔl.ʁe/ colleras /kɔl.ʁa/ collera /kɔl.ʁa/ collerons /kɔl.ʁɔ̃/ collerez /kɔl.ʁe/ colleront /kɔl.ʁɔ̃/ conditional collerais /kɔl.ʁɛ/ collerais /kɔl.ʁɛ/ collerait /kɔl.ʁɛ/ collerions /kɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ colleriez /kɔ.lə.ʁje/ colleraient /kɔl.ʁɛ/ (compound tenses) present perfect present indicative ofavoir + past participle pluperfect imperfect indicative ofavoir + past participle past anterior 2 past historic ofavoir + past participle future perfect future ofavoir + past participle conditional perfect conditional ofavoir + past participle subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles (simple tenses) present colle /kɔl/ colles /kɔl/ colle /kɔl/ collions /kɔ.ljɔ̃/ colliez /kɔ.lje/ collent /kɔl/ imperfect 2 collasse /kɔ.las/ collasses /kɔ.las/ collât /kɔ.la/ collassions /kɔ.la.sjɔ̃/ collassiez /kɔ.la.sje/ collassent /kɔ.las/ (compound tenses) past present subjunctive ofavoir + past participle pluperfect 2 imperfect subjunctive ofavoir + past participle imperative – tu – nous vous – simple — colle /kɔl/ — collons /kɔ.lɔ̃/ collez /kɔ.le/ — compound — simple imperative ofavoir + past participle — simple imperative ofavoir + past participle simple imperative ofavoir + past participle — 1 The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen .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 ).
IPA (key ) : /koˈɟeɾ/ [koˈɟeɾ] Rhymes:-eɾ Hyphenation:co‧ller Inherited fromOld Galician-Portuguese colher , fromLatin colligere . Cognate withPortuguese colher ,Asturian coyer , andSpanish coger .
coller (first-person singular present collo ,first-person singular preterite collín ,past participle collido ,short past participle colleito )
( transitive ) tograb , toseize Synonyms: agarrar ,tomar ( transitive ) topick up , tocollect Synonyms: apañar ,recoller ( transitive ) tocatch , tocapture Synonyms: pillar ,trincar ( transitive ) tosurprise Synonym: cachar ( transitive ) toreach Synonym: alcanzar ( intransitive ) tofit Synonym: caber ( transitive , a sickness) toget sick ( intransitive or pronominal ) tospoil ; toget infected ( intransitive , of cows) to become pregnant( intransitive ) togo to , toleave [with para ‘towards’ ] Conjugation ofcoller (irregular short past participle)
1 Usually used with auxiliary verbsser andestar .2 Usually used with auxiliary verbshaber andter .
FromOld Galician-Portuguese cullar ,colhar , fromLatin cochleārem ( “ spoon ” ) .
coller f (plural colleres )
Alternative form ofculler Ernesto Xosé González Seoane ,María Álvarez de la Granja ,Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006 –2022 ) “coller ”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006 –2018 ) “coller ”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , editor (2006 –2013 ), “coller ”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language ] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández ,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane ,María Álvarez de la Granja , editors (2003 –2018 ), “coller ”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco , editor (2014 –2024 ), “coller ”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega ,→ISSN coller
Alternative form ofcoler ( “ collar ” ) coller
totake 1294 "Cuatro documentos asturianos del siglo xiii" by María Josefa Sanz Fuentes):cuéllovos por filla e douos todo quanto yo e e deuo a auer,I take you as (my) daughter and I give all which I may have