marteler

Inherited from Middle French [Term?], inherited from Old French marteler, from martel (old form of marteau (“hammer”)) +‎ -er. Compare to English martel, Dutch martelen.

• IPA^(key): /maʁ.tə.le/

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marteler (transitive)

1. to strike with a hammer; to hammer
2. 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.

3. to emphasise individual elements such as words or notes

   Il martèle chaque syllabe. ― He stresses every syllable.

4. 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.

5. (figurative) to trouble; to bother; to worry

   Cette affaire me martèle. ― This business bothers me.

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.

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

martel +‎ -er

marteler

1. to strike with a hammer; to hammer
2. to shape or forge with a hammer

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.

• French: marteler