caracoler
English
Etymology
caracole + -er
Noun
caracoler (plural caracolers)
- One who performs the caracole combat maneuver on horseback.
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
caracoler
- (of a horse) to caracole
- go round and round, buzz round, flit about, flit around
- (figuratively) to sit pretty, to be (well) ahead, nestle (appear comfortable at the top of a ranking)
- ses tubes caracolent en tête du classement
- their tunes are high at the top of the charts.
Conjugation
Conjugation of caracoler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | caracoler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | caracolant /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | caracolé /ka.ʁa.kɔ.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | caracole /ka.ʁa.kɔl/ | caracoles /ka.ʁa.kɔl/ | caracole /ka.ʁa.kɔl/ | caracolons /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lɔ̃/ | caracolez /ka.ʁa.kɔ.le/ | caracolent /ka.ʁa.kɔl/ |
| imperfect | caracolais /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lɛ/ | caracolais /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lɛ/ | caracolait /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lɛ/ | caracolions /ka.ʁa.kɔ.ljɔ̃/ | caracoliez /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lje/ | caracolaient /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | caracolai /ka.ʁa.kɔ.le/ | caracolas /ka.ʁa.kɔ.la/ | caracola /ka.ʁa.kɔ.la/ | caracolâmes /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lam/ | caracolâtes /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lat/ | caracolèrent /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | caracolerai /ka.ʁa.kɔl.ʁe/ | caracoleras /ka.ʁa.kɔl.ʁa/ | caracolera /ka.ʁa.kɔl.ʁa/ | caracolerons /ka.ʁa.kɔl.ʁɔ̃/ | caracolerez /ka.ʁa.kɔl.ʁe/ | caracoleront /ka.ʁa.kɔl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | caracolerais /ka.ʁa.kɔl.ʁɛ/ | caracolerais /ka.ʁa.kɔl.ʁɛ/ | caracolerait /ka.ʁa.kɔl.ʁɛ/ | caracolerions /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ | caracoleriez /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lə.ʁje/ | caracoleraient /ka.ʁa.kɔl.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 | caracole /ka.ʁa.kɔl/ | caracoles /ka.ʁa.kɔl/ | caracole /ka.ʁa.kɔl/ | caracolions /ka.ʁa.kɔ.ljɔ̃/ | caracoliez /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lje/ | caracolent /ka.ʁa.kɔl/ |
| imperfect2 | caracolasse /ka.ʁa.kɔ.las/ | caracolasses /ka.ʁa.kɔ.las/ | caracolât /ka.ʁa.kɔ.la/ | caracolassions /ka.ʁa.kɔ.la.sjɔ̃/ | caracolassiez /ka.ʁa.kɔ.la.sje/ | caracolassent /ka.ʁa.kɔ.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | caracole /ka.ʁa.kɔl/ | — | caracolons /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lɔ̃/ | caracolez /ka.ʁa.kɔ.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “caracoler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.