muscler
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mys.kle/
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Verb
muscler
- (transitive) to develop someone's muscles, to muscle up
- Il passe toutes ses journées à se muscler. ― He spends all his time building up his muscles.
Conjugation
Conjugation of muscler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | muscler | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | musclant /mys.klɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | musclé /mys.kle/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | muscle /myskl/ | muscles /myskl/ | muscle /myskl/ | musclons /mys.klɔ̃/ | musclez /mys.kle/ | musclent /myskl/ |
imperfect | musclais /mys.klɛ/ | musclais /mys.klɛ/ | musclait /mys.klɛ/ | musclions /mys.kli.jɔ̃/ | muscliez /mys.kli.je/ | musclaient /mys.klɛ/ | |
past historic2 | musclai /mys.kle/ | musclas /mys.kla/ | muscla /mys.kla/ | musclâmes /mys.klam/ | musclâtes /mys.klat/ | musclèrent /mys.klɛʁ/ | |
future | musclerai /mys.klə.ʁe/ | muscleras /mys.klə.ʁa/ | musclera /mys.klə.ʁa/ | musclerons /mys.klə.ʁɔ̃/ | musclerez /mys.klə.ʁe/ | muscleront /mys.klə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | musclerais /mys.klə.ʁɛ/ | musclerais /mys.klə.ʁɛ/ | musclerait /mys.klə.ʁɛ/ | musclerions /mys.klə.ʁjɔ̃/ | muscleriez /mys.klə.ʁje/ | muscleraient /mys.klə.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 | muscle /myskl/ | muscles /myskl/ | muscle /myskl/ | musclions /mys.kli.jɔ̃/ | muscliez /mys.kli.je/ | musclent /myskl/ |
imperfect2 | musclasse /mys.klas/ | musclasses /mys.klas/ | musclât /mys.kla/ | musclassions /mys.kla.sjɔ̃/ | musclassiez /mys.kla.sje/ | musclassent /mys.klas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | muscle /myskl/ | — | musclons /mys.klɔ̃/ | musclez /mys.kle/ | — | |
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
- musclé
- muscle
- musculature
- musculaire
- musculation
- musculeux
Further reading
- “muscler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.