peupler
French
Etymology
peuple + -er. Compare Catalan, Spanish, and Occitan poblar, Portuguese povoar, Italian popolare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pœ.ple/
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Verb
peupler
- to populate
Conjugation
Conjugation of peupler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | peupler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | peuplant /pœ.plɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | peuplé /pœ.ple/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | peuple /pœpl/ | peuples /pœpl/ | peuple /pœpl/ | peuplons /pœ.plɔ̃/ | peuplez /pœ.ple/ | peuplent /pœpl/ |
| imperfect | peuplais /pœ.plɛ/ | peuplais /pœ.plɛ/ | peuplait /pœ.plɛ/ | peuplions /pœ.pli.jɔ̃/ | peupliez /pœ.pli.je/ | peuplaient /pœ.plɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | peuplai /pœ.ple/ | peuplas /pœ.pla/ | peupla /pœ.pla/ | peuplâmes /pœ.plam/ | peuplâtes /pœ.plat/ | peuplèrent /pœ.plɛʁ/ | |
| future | peuplerai /pœ.plə.ʁe/ | peupleras /pœ.plə.ʁa/ | peuplera /pœ.plə.ʁa/ | peuplerons /pœ.plə.ʁɔ̃/ | peuplerez /pœ.plə.ʁe/ | peupleront /pœ.plə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | peuplerais /pœ.plə.ʁɛ/ | peuplerais /pœ.plə.ʁɛ/ | peuplerait /pœ.plə.ʁɛ/ | peuplerions /pœ.plə.ʁjɔ̃/ | peupleriez /pœ.plə.ʁje/ | peupleraient /pœ.plə.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 | peuple /pœpl/ | peuples /pœpl/ | peuple /pœpl/ | peuplions /pœ.pli.jɔ̃/ | peupliez /pœ.pli.je/ | peuplent /pœpl/ |
| imperfect2 | peuplasse /pœ.plas/ | peuplasses /pœ.plas/ | peuplât /pœ.pla/ | peuplassions /pœ.pla.sjɔ̃/ | peuplassiez /pœ.pla.sje/ | peuplassent /pœ.plas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | peuple /pœpl/ | — | peuplons /pœ.plɔ̃/ | peuplez /pœ.ple/ | — | |
| 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
- peuple
- peuplement
Further reading
- “peupler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.