ruisseler
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɥi.sle/
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Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il ruissèle rather than *il ruissele. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of ruisseler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | ruisselant /ʁɥi.slɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | ruisselé /ʁɥi.sle/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | ruisseler | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | ruisselant /ʁɥi.slɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | ruissèle /ʁɥi.sɛl/ |
ruissèles /ʁɥi.sɛl/ |
ruissèle /ʁɥi.sɛl/ |
ruisselons /ʁɥi.slɔ̃/ |
ruisselez /ʁɥi.sle/ |
ruissèlent /ʁɥi.sɛl/ |
| imperfect | ruisselais /ʁɥi.slɛ/ |
ruisselais /ʁɥi.slɛ/ |
ruisselait /ʁɥi.slɛ/ |
ruisselions /ʁɥi.sə.ljɔ̃/ |
ruisseliez /ʁɥi.sə.lje/ |
ruisselaient /ʁɥi.slɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | ruisselai /ʁɥi.sle/ |
ruisselas /ʁɥi.sla/ |
ruissela /ʁɥi.sla/ |
ruisselâmes /ʁɥi.slam/ |
ruisselâtes /ʁɥi.slat/ |
ruisselèrent /ʁɥi.slɛʁ/ | |
| future | ruissèlerai /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁe/ |
ruissèleras /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁa/ |
ruissèlera /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁa/ |
ruissèlerons /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁɔ̃/ |
ruissèlerez /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁe/ |
ruissèleront /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | ruissèlerais /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁɛ/ |
ruissèlerais /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁɛ/ |
ruissèlerait /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁɛ/ |
ruissèlerions /ʁɥi.sɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
ruissèleriez /ʁɥi.sɛ.lə.ʁje/ |
ruissèleraient /ʁɥi.sɛl.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 | ruissèle /ʁɥi.sɛl/ |
ruissèles /ʁɥi.sɛl/ |
ruissèle /ʁɥi.sɛl/ |
ruisselions /ʁɥi.sə.ljɔ̃/ |
ruisseliez /ʁɥi.sə.lje/ |
ruissèlent /ʁɥi.sɛl/ |
| imperfect2 | ruisselasse /ʁɥi.slas/ |
ruisselasses /ʁɥi.slas/ |
ruisselât /ʁɥi.sla/ |
ruisselassions /ʁɥi.sla.sjɔ̃/ |
ruisselassiez /ʁɥi.sla.sje/ |
ruisselassent /ʁɥi.slas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | ruissèle /ʁɥi.sɛl/ |
— | ruisselons /ʁɥi.slɔ̃/ |
ruisselez /ʁɥi.sle/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “ruisseler” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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