ausculter
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin auscultāre. Doublet of écouter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /os.kyl.te/
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Verb
ausculter
- (medicine) to perform auscultation
- ausculter un patient to listen to a patient's chest
- Le médecin l'a ausculté. The doctor listened to his chest.
Conjugation
Conjugation of ausculter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | ausculter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | auscultant /os.kyl.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | ausculté /os.kyl.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | ausculte /os.kylt/ |
auscultes /os.kylt/ |
ausculte /os.kylt/ |
auscultons /os.kyl.tɔ̃/ |
auscultez /os.kyl.te/ |
auscultent /os.kylt/ |
| imperfect | auscultais /os.kyl.tɛ/ |
auscultais /os.kyl.tɛ/ |
auscultait /os.kyl.tɛ/ |
auscultions /os.kyl.tjɔ̃/ |
auscultiez /os.kyl.tje/ |
auscultaient /os.kyl.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | auscultai /os.kyl.te/ |
auscultas /os.kyl.ta/ |
ausculta /os.kyl.ta/ |
auscultâmes /os.kyl.tam/ |
auscultâtes /os.kyl.tat/ |
auscultèrent /os.kyl.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | ausculterai /os.kyl.tə.ʁe/ |
ausculteras /os.kyl.tə.ʁa/ |
auscultera /os.kyl.tə.ʁa/ |
ausculterons /os.kyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/ |
ausculterez /os.kyl.tə.ʁe/ |
ausculteront /os.kyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ausculterais /os.kyl.tə.ʁɛ/ |
ausculterais /os.kyl.tə.ʁɛ/ |
ausculterait /os.kyl.tə.ʁɛ/ |
ausculterions /os.kyl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ausculteriez /os.kyl.tə.ʁje/ |
ausculteraient /os.kyl.tə.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 | ausculte /os.kylt/ |
auscultes /os.kylt/ |
ausculte /os.kylt/ |
auscultions /os.kyl.tjɔ̃/ |
auscultiez /os.kyl.tje/ |
auscultent /os.kylt/ |
| imperfect2 | auscultasse /os.kyl.tas/ |
auscultasses /os.kyl.tas/ |
auscultât /os.kyl.ta/ |
auscultassions /os.kyl.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
auscultassiez /os.kyl.ta.sje/ |
auscultassent /os.kyl.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ausculte /os.kylt/ |
— | auscultons /os.kyl.tɔ̃/ |
auscultez /os.kyl.te/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
See also
Further reading
- “ausculter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
ausculter
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of auscultō