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Definition 2024
couler
couler
French
Verb
couler
- (transitive) to sink
- (transitive) to cast (metal); to pour (liquid)
- (intransitive) to sink
- Le bateau de croisière MV Explorer a commencé à couler après avoir heurté un iceberg.
- (intransitive) to flow, to run; to slip, to skid
- (intransitive) to shed (i.e. shed blood)
- (intransitive) to go bankrupt
- (transitive, Quebec) to fail, flunk (a course, test, etc.)
Conjugation
Conjugation of couler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | couler | avoir coulé | |||||
| gerund | en coulant | en ayant coulé | |||||
| present participle | coulant /ku.lɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | coulé /ku.le/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | coule /kul/ |
coules /kul/ |
coule /kul/ |
coulons /ku.lɔ̃/ |
coulez /ku.le/ |
coulent /kul/ |
| imperfect | coulais /ku.lɛ/ |
coulais /ku.lɛ/ |
coulait /ku.lɛ/ |
coulions /ku.ljɔ̃/ |
couliez /ku.lje/ |
coulaient /ku.lɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | coulai /ku.le/ |
coulas /ku.la/ |
coula /ku.la/ |
coulâmes /ku.lam/ |
coulâtes /ku.lat/ |
coulèrent /ku.lɛʁ/ |
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| future | coulerai /kul.ʁe/ |
couleras /kul.ʁa/ |
coulera /kul.ʁa/ |
coulerons /kul.ʁɔ̃/ |
coulerez /kul.ʁe/ |
couleront /kul.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | coulerais /kul.ʁɛ/ |
coulerais /kul.ʁɛ/ |
coulerait /kul.ʁɛ/ |
coulerions /ku.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
couleriez /ku.lə.ʁje/ |
couleraient /kul.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | coule /kul/ |
coules /kul/ |
coule /kul/ |
coulions /ku.ljɔ̃/ |
couliez /ku.lje/ |
coulent /kul/ |
| imperfect1 |
coulasse /ku.las/ |
coulasses /ku.las/ |
coulât /ku.la/ |
coulassions /ku.la.sjɔ̃/ |
coulassiez /ku.la.sje/ |
coulassent /ku.las/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | coule /kul/ |
— | coulons /ku.lɔ̃/ |
coulez /ku.le/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Derived terms
Derived terms
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