ébouler

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

ébouler

1. to crumble or crumple
2. to collapse

Conjugation

Conjugation of ébouler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ébouler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	éboulant /e.bu.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		éboulé /e.bu.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	éboule /e.bul/	éboules /e.bul/	éboule /e.bul/	éboulons /e.bu.lɔ̃/	éboulez /e.bu.le/	éboulent /e.bul/
	imperfect	éboulais /e.bu.lɛ/	éboulais /e.bu.lɛ/	éboulait /e.bu.lɛ/	éboulions /e.bu.ljɔ̃/	ébouliez /e.bu.lje/	éboulaient /e.bu.lɛ/
	past historic2	éboulai /e.bu.le/	éboulas /e.bu.la/	éboula /e.bu.la/	éboulâmes /e.bu.lam/	éboulâtes /e.bu.lat/	éboulèrent /e.bu.lɛʁ/
	future	éboulerai /e.bul.ʁe/	ébouleras /e.bul.ʁa/	éboulera /e.bul.ʁa/	éboulerons /e.bul.ʁɔ̃/	éboulerez /e.bul.ʁe/	ébouleront /e.bul.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	éboulerais /e.bul.ʁɛ/	éboulerais /e.bul.ʁɛ/	éboulerait /e.bul.ʁɛ/	éboulerions /e.bu.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	ébouleriez /e.bu.lə.ʁje/	ébouleraient /e.bul.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	éboule /e.bul/	éboules /e.bul/	éboule /e.bul/	éboulions /e.bu.ljɔ̃/	ébouliez /e.bu.lje/	éboulent /e.bul/
	imperfect2	éboulasse /e.bu.las/	éboulasses /e.bu.las/	éboulât /e.bu.la/	éboulassions /e.bu.la.sjɔ̃/	éboulassiez /e.bu.la.sje/	éboulassent /e.bu.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	éboule /e.bul/	—	éboulons /e.bu.lɔ̃/	éboulez /e.bu.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: 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).

Further reading

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