culer
Catalan
Etymology
From cul (“bottom, butt”) + -er. The football sense is from fans sitting on the walls of the first stadium in Barcelona, exposing their culs to passersby.
Pronunciation
Adjective
culer m or f (masculine and feminine plural culers)
- (soccer, relational) of FC Barcelona, as a player, fan, coach etc.
- Synonyms: blaugrana, barcelonista
Noun
culer m or f by sense (plural culers)
- (obsolete) sodomite
- (soccer) a person connected with FC Barcelona, as a player, fan, staff, coach etc.
- Synonym: barcelonista
Descendants
- → Spanish: culé
Further reading
- “culer”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “culer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “culer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- culer on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ca
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ky.le/
Audio: (file)
Verb
culer
Conjugation
Conjugation of culer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | culer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | culant /ky.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | culé /ky.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cule /kyl/ |
cules /kyl/ |
cule /kyl/ |
culons /ky.lɔ̃/ |
culez /ky.le/ |
culent /kyl/ |
| imperfect | culais /ky.lɛ/ |
culais /ky.lɛ/ |
culait /ky.lɛ/ |
culions /ky.ljɔ̃/ |
culiez /ky.lje/ |
culaient /ky.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | culai /ky.le/ |
culas /ky.la/ |
cula /ky.la/ |
culâmes /ky.lam/ |
culâtes /ky.lat/ |
culèrent /ky.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | culerai /kyl.ʁe/ |
culeras /kyl.ʁa/ |
culera /kyl.ʁa/ |
culerons /kyl.ʁɔ̃/ |
culerez /kyl.ʁe/ |
culeront /kyl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | culerais /kyl.ʁɛ/ |
culerais /kyl.ʁɛ/ |
culerait /kyl.ʁɛ/ |
culerions /ky.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
culeriez /ky.lə.ʁje/ |
culeraient /kyl.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 | cule /kyl/ |
cules /kyl/ |
cule /kyl/ |
culions /ky.ljɔ̃/ |
culiez /ky.lje/ |
culent /kyl/ |
| imperfect2 | culasse /ky.las/ |
culasses /ky.las/ |
culât /ky.la/ |
culassions /ky.la.sjɔ̃/ |
culassiez /ky.la.sje/ |
culassent /ky.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cule /kyl/ |
— | culons /ky.lɔ̃/ |
culez /ky.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “culer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.