ausculter

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin auscultāre. Doublet of écouter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /os.kyl.te/

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Verb

ausculter

1. (medicine) to perform auscultation

   ausculter un patient to listen to a patient's chest

   Le médecin l'a ausculté. The doctor listened to his chest.

Conjugation

Conjugation of ausculter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ausculter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	auscultant /os.kyl.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ausculté /os.kyl.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ausculte /os.kylt/	auscultes /os.kylt/	ausculte /os.kylt/	auscultons /os.kyl.tɔ̃/	auscultez /os.kyl.te/	auscultent /os.kylt/
	imperfect	auscultais /os.kyl.tɛ/	auscultais /os.kyl.tɛ/	auscultait /os.kyl.tɛ/	auscultions /os.kyl.tjɔ̃/	auscultiez /os.kyl.tje/	auscultaient /os.kyl.tɛ/
	past historic2	auscultai /os.kyl.te/	auscultas /os.kyl.ta/	ausculta /os.kyl.ta/	auscultâmes /os.kyl.tam/	auscultâtes /os.kyl.tat/	auscultèrent /os.kyl.tɛʁ/
	future	ausculterai /os.kyl.tə.ʁe/	ausculteras /os.kyl.tə.ʁa/	auscultera /os.kyl.tə.ʁa/	ausculterons /os.kyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/	ausculterez /os.kyl.tə.ʁe/	ausculteront /os.kyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ausculterais /os.kyl.tə.ʁɛ/	ausculterais /os.kyl.tə.ʁɛ/	ausculterait /os.kyl.tə.ʁɛ/	ausculterions /os.kyl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	ausculteriez /os.kyl.tə.ʁje/	ausculteraient /os.kyl.tə.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	ausculte /os.kylt/	auscultes /os.kylt/	ausculte /os.kylt/	auscultions /os.kyl.tjɔ̃/	auscultiez /os.kyl.tje/	auscultent /os.kylt/
	imperfect2	auscultasse /os.kyl.tas/	auscultasses /os.kyl.tas/	auscultât /os.kyl.ta/	auscultassions /os.kyl.ta.sjɔ̃/	auscultassiez /os.kyl.ta.sje/	auscultassent /os.kyl.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ausculte /os.kylt/	—	auscultons /os.kyl.tɔ̃/	auscultez /os.kyl.te/	—
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: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

See also

• écouter

Further reading

• “ausculter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

ausculter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of auscultō