Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to parley
Participle: parleyed
Gerund: parleying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | parley |
| you | parley |
| he;she;it | parleys |
| we | parley |
| you | parley |
| they | parley |
Perfect
| I | have parleyed |
| you | have parleyed |
| he;she;it | has parleyed |
| we | have parleyed |
| you | have parleyed |
| they | have parleyed |
Past
| I | parleyed |
| you | parleyed |
| he;she;it | parleyed |
| we | parleyed |
| you | parleyed |
| they | parleyed |
Pluperfect
| I | had parleyed |
| you | had parleyed |
| he;she;it | had parleyed |
| we | had parleyed |
| you | had parleyed |
| they | had parleyed |
Future
| I | will parley |
| you | will parley |
| he;she;it | will parley |
| we | will parley |
| you | will parley |
| they | will parley |
Future Perfect
| I | will have parleyed |
| you | will have parleyed |
| he;she;it | will have parleyed |
| we | will have parleyed |
| you | will have parleyed |
| they | will have parleyed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | parley |
| you | parley |
| he;she;it | parley |
| we | parley |
| you | parley |
| they | parley |
Perfect
| I | have parleyed |
| you | have parleyed |
| he;she;it | have parleyed |
| we | have parleyed |
| you | have parleyed |
| they | have parleyed |
Imperfect
| I | parleyed |
| you | parleyed |
| he;she;it | parleyed |
| we | parleyed |
| you | parleyed |
| they | parleyed |
Pluperfect
| I | had parleyed |
| you | had parleyed |
| he;she;it | had parleyed |
| we | had parleyed |
| you | had parleyed |
| they | had parleyed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would parley |
| you | would parley |
| he;she;it | would parley |
| we | would parley |
| you | would parley |
| they | would parley |
Perfect
| I | would have parleyed |
| you | would have parleyed |
| he;she;it | would have parleyed |
| we | would have parleyed |
| you | would have parleyed |
| they | would have parleyed |
Imperative
| you | parley |
| we | Let's parley |
| you | parley |
Verbs conjugated like 'parley'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'parley'
parlay,
parle,
barney,
carney,
pale,
palen,
pallet,
palsy,
parcel,
parcen,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "conference," especially with an enemy, 1449, from M.Fr.
parlée, from fem. pp. of O.Fr.
parler "to speak," from L.L.
parabolare "to speak (in parables)," from
parabola "speech, discourse," from L.
parabola "comparison" (see parable). The verb is 14c., probably a separate borrowing of O.Fr.
parler.
2. From Middle English parlai (“speech, parley”), from Old French parler (“to talk; to speak”), from Late Latin parabolō, from Latin parabola (“comparison”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ), from παρά (pará, “beside”) with βολή (bolḗ, “throwing”). Doublet of palaver. See: Old French '
parler'.
Sample Sentences
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[...] at day break we found the villaine, who, loath to parlee in fire and ſhot, fled amaine and left us [...] [1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:]
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"That is droll. Listen yet one time. You are very spiritual. Can you make a honorable lady of Her?" / "Don't be so malicious," says Mr. Bucket. / "Or a haughty gentleman of Him?" cries Madamoiselle, referring to Sir Leicester with ineffable disdain. "Eh! O then regard him! The poor infant! Ha! ha! ha!" / "Come, come, why this is worse Parlaying than the other," says Mr. Bucket. "Come along!" [1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Springing a Mine”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 527:]
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Jack "parlayed" with them until he had completed his task, and then he closed the gate in their faces. [1865, “Tom the Giant—His Wife Jane, and Jack the Tinkeard, as Told by the ‘Drolls’”, in Robert Hunt, editor, Popular Romances of the West of England; or, The Drolls, Traditions, and Superstitions of Old Cornwall (First Series), London: John Camden Hotten, […], →OCLC, page 45:]
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Mia is a teenage girl from Mexico who can read her mother’s mind. Akhil is a young man in New Jersey who is seeing things through other people’s eyes. And Lily parleys brain-to-brain with friends who are far away from where she lives in Georgia. According to The Telepathy Tapes, a 10-part audio series that is now one of the most popular podcasts in America, Mia, Akhil, and Lily are nonspeaking people with autism who have a special skill: They’re savants for ESP. [2025 March 3, Daniel Engber, “The Telepathy Trap”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 15 Apr 2026:]