spéculer
See also: speculer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin speculārī. Cf. the Old French form especuler.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spe.ky.le/
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Verb
spéculer
- (finance, intransitive) to speculate
- spéculer sur le coton ― speculate on cotton
- (intransitive) to speculate (guess)
- spéculer sur l'avenir ― speculate about the future
Conjugation
Conjugation of spéculer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | spéculer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | spéculant /spe.ky.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | spéculé /spe.ky.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | spécule /spe.kyl/ |
spécules /spe.kyl/ |
spécule /spe.kyl/ |
spéculons /spe.ky.lɔ̃/ |
spéculez /spe.ky.le/ |
spéculent /spe.kyl/ |
| imperfect | spéculais /spe.ky.lɛ/ |
spéculais /spe.ky.lɛ/ |
spéculait /spe.ky.lɛ/ |
spéculions /spe.ky.ljɔ̃/ |
spéculiez /spe.ky.lje/ |
spéculaient /spe.ky.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | spéculai /spe.ky.le/ |
spéculas /spe.ky.la/ |
spécula /spe.ky.la/ |
spéculâmes /spe.ky.lam/ |
spéculâtes /spe.ky.lat/ |
spéculèrent /spe.ky.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | spéculerai /spe.kyl.ʁe/ |
spéculeras /spe.kyl.ʁa/ |
spéculera /spe.kyl.ʁa/ |
spéculerons /spe.kyl.ʁɔ̃/ |
spéculerez /spe.kyl.ʁe/ |
spéculeront /spe.kyl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | spéculerais /spe.kyl.ʁɛ/ |
spéculerais /spe.kyl.ʁɛ/ |
spéculerait /spe.kyl.ʁɛ/ |
spéculerions /spe.ky.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
spéculeriez /spe.ky.lə.ʁje/ |
spéculeraient /spe.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 | spécule /spe.kyl/ |
spécules /spe.kyl/ |
spécule /spe.kyl/ |
spéculions /spe.ky.ljɔ̃/ |
spéculiez /spe.ky.lje/ |
spéculent /spe.kyl/ |
| imperfect2 | spéculasse /spe.ky.las/ |
spéculasses /spe.ky.las/ |
spéculât /spe.ky.la/ |
spéculassions /spe.ky.la.sjɔ̃/ |
spéculassiez /spe.ky.la.sje/ |
spéculassent /spe.ky.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | spécule /spe.kyl/ |
— | spéculons /spe.ky.lɔ̃/ |
spéculez /spe.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
- “spéculer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.