peupler
French
Etymology
From peuple + -er. Compare Catalan, Spanish, and Occitan poblar, Portuguese povoar, Italian popolare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pœ.ple/
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Verb
peupler
- to populate
Conjugation
Conjugation of peupler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | peupler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | peuplant /pœ.plɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | peuplé /pœ.ple/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | peuple /pœpl/ |
peuples /pœpl/ |
peuple /pœpl/ |
peuplons /pœ.plɔ̃/ |
peuplez /pœ.ple/ |
peuplent /pœpl/ |
| imperfect | peuplais /pœ.plɛ/ |
peuplais /pœ.plɛ/ |
peuplait /pœ.plɛ/ |
peuplions /pœ.pli.jɔ̃/ |
peupliez /pœ.pli.je/ |
peuplaient /pœ.plɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | peuplai /pœ.ple/ |
peuplas /pœ.pla/ |
peupla /pœ.pla/ |
peuplâmes /pœ.plam/ |
peuplâtes /pœ.plat/ |
peuplèrent /pœ.plɛʁ/ | |
| future | peuplerai /pœ.plə.ʁe/ |
peupleras /pœ.plə.ʁa/ |
peuplera /pœ.plə.ʁa/ |
peuplerons /pœ.plə.ʁɔ̃/ |
peuplerez /pœ.plə.ʁe/ |
peupleront /pœ.plə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | peuplerais /pœ.plə.ʁɛ/ |
peuplerais /pœ.plə.ʁɛ/ |
peuplerait /pœ.plə.ʁɛ/ |
peuplerions /pœ.plə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
peupleriez /pœ.plə.ʁje/ |
peupleraient /pœ.plə.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 | peuple /pœpl/ |
peuples /pœpl/ |
peuple /pœpl/ |
peuplions /pœ.pli.jɔ̃/ |
peupliez /pœ.pli.je/ |
peuplent /pœpl/ |
| imperfect2 | peuplasse /pœ.plas/ |
peuplasses /pœ.plas/ |
peuplât /pœ.pla/ |
peuplassions /pœ.pla.sjɔ̃/ |
peuplassiez /pœ.pla.sje/ |
peuplassent /pœ.plas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | peuple /pœpl/ |
— | peuplons /pœ.plɔ̃/ |
peuplez /pœ.ple/ |
— | |
| 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
- “peupler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.