exploser
French
Pronunciation
Verb
exploser
- (intransitive) to explode (fly apart with sudden violent force)
- (intransitive, figuratively) to explode (increase suddenly)
Conjugation
Conjugation of exploser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | exploser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | explosant /ɛk.splo.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | explosé /ɛk.splo.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | explose /ɛk.sploz/ |
exploses /ɛk.sploz/ |
explose /ɛk.sploz/ |
explosons /ɛk.splo.zɔ̃/ |
explosez /ɛk.splo.ze/ |
explosent /ɛk.sploz/ |
| imperfect | explosais /ɛk.splo.zɛ/ |
explosais /ɛk.splo.zɛ/ |
explosait /ɛk.splo.zɛ/ |
explosions /ɛk.splo.zjɔ̃/ |
explosiez /ɛk.splo.zje/ |
explosaient /ɛk.splo.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | explosai /ɛk.splo.ze/ |
explosas /ɛk.splo.za/ |
explosa /ɛk.splo.za/ |
explosâmes /ɛk.splo.zam/ |
explosâtes /ɛk.splo.zat/ |
explosèrent /ɛk.splo.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | exploserai /ɛk.sploz.ʁe/ |
exploseras /ɛk.sploz.ʁa/ |
explosera /ɛk.sploz.ʁa/ |
exploserons /ɛk.sploz.ʁɔ̃/ |
exploserez /ɛk.sploz.ʁe/ |
exploseront /ɛk.sploz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | exploserais /ɛk.sploz.ʁɛ/ |
exploserais /ɛk.sploz.ʁɛ/ |
exploserait /ɛk.sploz.ʁɛ/ |
exploserions /ɛk.splo.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
exploseriez /ɛk.splo.zə.ʁje/ |
exploseraient /ɛk.sploz.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 | explose /ɛk.sploz/ |
exploses /ɛk.sploz/ |
explose /ɛk.sploz/ |
explosions /ɛk.splo.zjɔ̃/ |
explosiez /ɛk.splo.zje/ |
explosent /ɛk.sploz/ |
| imperfect2 | explosasse /ɛk.splo.zas/ |
explosasses /ɛk.splo.zas/ |
explosât /ɛk.splo.za/ |
explosassions /ɛk.splo.za.sjɔ̃/ |
explosassiez /ɛk.splo.za.sje/ |
explosassent /ɛk.splo.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | explose /ɛk.sploz/ |
— | explosons /ɛk.splo.zɔ̃/ |
explosez /ɛk.splo.ze/ |
— | |
| 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
Related terms
Further reading
- “exploser” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “exploser” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “exploser” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
- “exploser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.