compulser
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin compulsāre (“push with force”), intensitive form of Latin compellere (“compel, impel”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.pyl.se/
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Verb
compulser
- (transitive) to consult
Conjugation
Conjugation of compulser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | compulser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | compulsant /kɔ̃.pyl.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | compulsé /kɔ̃.pyl.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | compulse /kɔ̃.pyls/ |
compulses /kɔ̃.pyls/ |
compulse /kɔ̃.pyls/ |
compulsons /kɔ̃.pyl.sɔ̃/ |
compulsez /kɔ̃.pyl.se/ |
compulsent /kɔ̃.pyls/ |
| imperfect | compulsais /kɔ̃.pyl.sɛ/ |
compulsais /kɔ̃.pyl.sɛ/ |
compulsait /kɔ̃.pyl.sɛ/ |
compulsions /kɔ̃.pyl.sjɔ̃/ |
compulsiez /kɔ̃.pyl.sje/ |
compulsaient /kɔ̃.pyl.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | compulsai /kɔ̃.pyl.se/ |
compulsas /kɔ̃.pyl.sa/ |
compulsa /kɔ̃.pyl.sa/ |
compulsâmes /kɔ̃.pyl.sam/ |
compulsâtes /kɔ̃.pyl.sat/ |
compulsèrent /kɔ̃.pyl.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | compulserai /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁe/ |
compulseras /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁa/ |
compulsera /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁa/ |
compulserons /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁɔ̃/ |
compulserez /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁe/ |
compulseront /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | compulserais /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁɛ/ |
compulserais /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁɛ/ |
compulserait /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁɛ/ |
compulserions /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
compulseriez /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁje/ |
compulseraient /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.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 | compulse /kɔ̃.pyls/ |
compulses /kɔ̃.pyls/ |
compulse /kɔ̃.pyls/ |
compulsions /kɔ̃.pyl.sjɔ̃/ |
compulsiez /kɔ̃.pyl.sje/ |
compulsent /kɔ̃.pyls/ |
| imperfect2 | compulsasse /kɔ̃.pyl.sas/ |
compulsasses /kɔ̃.pyl.sas/ |
compulsât /kɔ̃.pyl.sa/ |
compulsassions /kɔ̃.pyl.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
compulsassiez /kɔ̃.pyl.sa.sje/ |
compulsassent /kɔ̃.pyl.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | compulse /kɔ̃.pyls/ |
— | compulsons /kɔ̃.pyl.sɔ̃/ |
compulsez /kɔ̃.pyl.se/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
Descendants
- → Romanian: compulsa
Further reading
- “compulser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.