stimuler
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stimulāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sti.my.le/
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Verb
stimuler
- (transitive) to stimulate
- Cet acide est reconnu pour stimuler le relâchement de l'insuline par les cellules pancréatiques.
- This acid is known to stimulate the secretion of insulin by the cells of the pancreas.
- (transitive) to whip up
Conjugation
Conjugation of stimuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | stimuler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | stimulant /sti.my.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | stimulé /sti.my.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | stimule /sti.myl/ |
stimules /sti.myl/ |
stimule /sti.myl/ |
stimulons /sti.my.lɔ̃/ |
stimulez /sti.my.le/ |
stimulent /sti.myl/ |
| imperfect | stimulais /sti.my.lɛ/ |
stimulais /sti.my.lɛ/ |
stimulait /sti.my.lɛ/ |
stimulions /sti.my.ljɔ̃/ |
stimuliez /sti.my.lje/ |
stimulaient /sti.my.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | stimulai /sti.my.le/ |
stimulas /sti.my.la/ |
stimula /sti.my.la/ |
stimulâmes /sti.my.lam/ |
stimulâtes /sti.my.lat/ |
stimulèrent /sti.my.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | stimulerai /sti.myl.ʁe/ |
stimuleras /sti.myl.ʁa/ |
stimulera /sti.myl.ʁa/ |
stimulerons /sti.myl.ʁɔ̃/ |
stimulerez /sti.myl.ʁe/ |
stimuleront /sti.myl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | stimulerais /sti.myl.ʁɛ/ |
stimulerais /sti.myl.ʁɛ/ |
stimulerait /sti.myl.ʁɛ/ |
stimulerions /sti.my.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
stimuleriez /sti.my.lə.ʁje/ |
stimuleraient /sti.myl.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 | stimule /sti.myl/ |
stimules /sti.myl/ |
stimule /sti.myl/ |
stimulions /sti.my.ljɔ̃/ |
stimuliez /sti.my.lje/ |
stimulent /sti.myl/ |
| imperfect2 | stimulasse /sti.my.las/ |
stimulasses /sti.my.las/ |
stimulât /sti.my.la/ |
stimulassions /sti.my.la.sjɔ̃/ |
stimulassiez /sti.my.la.sje/ |
stimulassent /sti.my.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | stimule /sti.myl/ |
— | stimulons /sti.my.lɔ̃/ |
stimulez /sti.my.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
Related terms
Further reading
- “stimuler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
stimuler
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of stimulō
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
stimuler
- imperative of stimulere