aduler
See also: adulêr
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin adulārī (“to fawn on, to flatter”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.dy.le/
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Verb
aduler
- to adulate
Conjugation
Conjugation of aduler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | aduler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | adulant /a.dy.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | adulé /a.dy.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | adule /a.dyl/ |
adules /a.dyl/ |
adule /a.dyl/ |
adulons /a.dy.lɔ̃/ |
adulez /a.dy.le/ |
adulent /a.dyl/ |
| imperfect | adulais /a.dy.lɛ/ |
adulais /a.dy.lɛ/ |
adulait /a.dy.lɛ/ |
adulions /a.dy.ljɔ̃/ |
aduliez /a.dy.lje/ |
adulaient /a.dy.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | adulai /a.dy.le/ |
adulas /a.dy.la/ |
adula /a.dy.la/ |
adulâmes /a.dy.lam/ |
adulâtes /a.dy.lat/ |
adulèrent /a.dy.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | adulerai /a.dyl.ʁe/ |
aduleras /a.dyl.ʁa/ |
adulera /a.dyl.ʁa/ |
adulerons /a.dyl.ʁɔ̃/ |
adulerez /a.dyl.ʁe/ |
aduleront /a.dyl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | adulerais /a.dyl.ʁɛ/ |
adulerais /a.dyl.ʁɛ/ |
adulerait /a.dyl.ʁɛ/ |
adulerions /a.dy.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
aduleriez /a.dy.lə.ʁje/ |
aduleraient /a.dyl.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 | adule /a.dyl/ |
adules /a.dyl/ |
adule /a.dyl/ |
adulions /a.dy.ljɔ̃/ |
aduliez /a.dy.lje/ |
adulent /a.dyl/ |
| imperfect2 | adulasse /a.dy.las/ |
adulasses /a.dy.las/ |
adulât /a.dy.la/ |
adulassions /a.dy.la.sjɔ̃/ |
adulassiez /a.dy.la.sje/ |
adulassent /a.dy.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | adule /a.dyl/ |
— | adulons /a.dy.lɔ̃/ |
adulez /a.dy.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
Further reading
- “aduler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
adūler
- first-person singular present active subjunctive of adūlor