capituler
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin capitulāre.
Pronunciation
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Verb
capituler
- to surrender; to capitulate (to give oneself up into the power of another)
- Les nazis ont été contraints à capituler.
Conjugation
Conjugation of capituler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | capituler | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | capitulant /ka.pi.ty.lɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | capitulé /ka.pi.ty.le/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | capitule /ka.pi.tyl/ | capitules /ka.pi.tyl/ | capitule /ka.pi.tyl/ | capitulons /ka.pi.ty.lɔ̃/ | capitulez /ka.pi.ty.le/ | capitulent /ka.pi.tyl/ |
imperfect | capitulais /ka.pi.ty.lɛ/ | capitulais /ka.pi.ty.lɛ/ | capitulait /ka.pi.ty.lɛ/ | capitulions /ka.pi.ty.ljɔ̃/ | capituliez /ka.pi.ty.lje/ | capitulaient /ka.pi.ty.lɛ/ | |
past historic2 | capitulai /ka.pi.ty.le/ | capitulas /ka.pi.ty.la/ | capitula /ka.pi.ty.la/ | capitulâmes /ka.pi.ty.lam/ | capitulâtes /ka.pi.ty.lat/ | capitulèrent /ka.pi.ty.lɛʁ/ | |
future | capitulerai /ka.pi.tyl.ʁe/ | capituleras /ka.pi.tyl.ʁa/ | capitulera /ka.pi.tyl.ʁa/ | capitulerons /ka.pi.tyl.ʁɔ̃/ | capitulerez /ka.pi.tyl.ʁe/ | capituleront /ka.pi.tyl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | capitulerais /ka.pi.tyl.ʁɛ/ | capitulerais /ka.pi.tyl.ʁɛ/ | capitulerait /ka.pi.tyl.ʁɛ/ | capitulerions /ka.pi.ty.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ | capituleriez /ka.pi.ty.lə.ʁje/ | capituleraient /ka.pi.tyl.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 | capitule /ka.pi.tyl/ | capitules /ka.pi.tyl/ | capitule /ka.pi.tyl/ | capitulions /ka.pi.ty.ljɔ̃/ | capituliez /ka.pi.ty.lje/ | capitulent /ka.pi.tyl/ |
imperfect2 | capitulasse /ka.pi.ty.las/ | capitulasses /ka.pi.ty.las/ | capitulât /ka.pi.ty.la/ | capitulassions /ka.pi.ty.la.sjɔ̃/ | capitulassiez /ka.pi.ty.la.sje/ | capitulassent /ka.pi.ty.las/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | capitule /ka.pi.tyl/ | — | capitulons /ka.pi.ty.lɔ̃/ | capitulez /ka.pi.ty.le/ | — | |
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
- capitulation
- récapituler
Further reading
- “capituler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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