virguler

French

Etymology

virgule +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viʁ.ɡy.le/

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Verb

virguler

1. (typography) to put a comma or commas (in a text)

Conjugation

Conjugation of virguler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	virguler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	virgulant /viʁ.ɡy.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		virgulé /viʁ.ɡy.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	virgule /viʁ.ɡyl/	virgules /viʁ.ɡyl/	virgule /viʁ.ɡyl/	virgulons /viʁ.ɡy.lɔ̃/	virgulez /viʁ.ɡy.le/	virgulent /viʁ.ɡyl/
	imperfect	virgulais /viʁ.ɡy.lɛ/	virgulais /viʁ.ɡy.lɛ/	virgulait /viʁ.ɡy.lɛ/	virgulions /viʁ.ɡy.ljɔ̃/	virguliez /viʁ.ɡy.lje/	virgulaient /viʁ.ɡy.lɛ/
	past historic2	virgulai /viʁ.ɡy.le/	virgulas /viʁ.ɡy.la/	virgula /viʁ.ɡy.la/	virgulâmes /viʁ.ɡy.lam/	virgulâtes /viʁ.ɡy.lat/	virgulèrent /viʁ.ɡy.lɛʁ/
	future	virgulerai /viʁ.ɡyl.ʁe/	virguleras /viʁ.ɡyl.ʁa/	virgulera /viʁ.ɡyl.ʁa/	virgulerons /viʁ.ɡyl.ʁɔ̃/	virgulerez /viʁ.ɡyl.ʁe/	virguleront /viʁ.ɡyl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	virgulerais /viʁ.ɡyl.ʁɛ/	virgulerais /viʁ.ɡyl.ʁɛ/	virgulerait /viʁ.ɡyl.ʁɛ/	virgulerions /viʁ.ɡy.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	virguleriez /viʁ.ɡy.lə.ʁje/	virguleraient /viʁ.ɡyl.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	virgule /viʁ.ɡyl/	virgules /viʁ.ɡyl/	virgule /viʁ.ɡyl/	virgulions /viʁ.ɡy.ljɔ̃/	virguliez /viʁ.ɡy.lje/	virgulent /viʁ.ɡyl/
	imperfect2	virgulasse /viʁ.ɡy.las/	virgulasses /viʁ.ɡy.las/	virgulât /viʁ.ɡy.la/	virgulassions /viʁ.ɡy.la.sjɔ̃/	virgulassiez /viʁ.ɡy.la.sje/	virgulassent /viʁ.ɡy.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	virgule /viʁ.ɡyl/	—	virgulons /viʁ.ɡy.lɔ̃/	virgulez /viʁ.ɡy.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

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