compulser
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin compulsāre (“push with force”), intensitive form of Latin compellō (“I 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 | |||||
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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
- compulsif
- compulsion
Descendants
- → Romanian: compulsa
Further reading
- “compulser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.