cumuler
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin cumulō, cumulāre (“I heap together”). Doublet of the inherited combler.
Pronunciation
Verb
cumuler
- to accumulate
- to multitask (do many things at once)
Conjugation
Conjugation of cumuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | cumuler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | cumulant /ky.my.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | cumulé /ky.my.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | cumule /ky.myl/ |
cumules /ky.myl/ |
cumule /ky.myl/ |
cumulons /ky.my.lɔ̃/ |
cumulez /ky.my.le/ |
cumulent /ky.myl/ |
| imperfect | cumulais /ky.my.lɛ/ |
cumulais /ky.my.lɛ/ |
cumulait /ky.my.lɛ/ |
cumulions /ky.my.ljɔ̃/ |
cumuliez /ky.my.lje/ |
cumulaient /ky.my.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | cumulai /ky.my.le/ |
cumulas /ky.my.la/ |
cumula /ky.my.la/ |
cumulâmes /ky.my.lam/ |
cumulâtes /ky.my.lat/ |
cumulèrent /ky.my.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | cumulerai /ky.myl.ʁe/ |
cumuleras /ky.myl.ʁa/ |
cumulera /ky.myl.ʁa/ |
cumulerons /ky.myl.ʁɔ̃/ |
cumulerez /ky.myl.ʁe/ |
cumuleront /ky.myl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | cumulerais /ky.myl.ʁɛ/ |
cumulerais /ky.myl.ʁɛ/ |
cumulerait /ky.myl.ʁɛ/ |
cumulerions /ky.my.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
cumuleriez /ky.my.lə.ʁje/ |
cumuleraient /ky.myl.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 | cumule /ky.myl/ |
cumules /ky.myl/ |
cumule /ky.myl/ |
cumulions /ky.my.ljɔ̃/ |
cumuliez /ky.my.lje/ |
cumulent /ky.myl/ |
| imperfect2 | cumulasse /ky.my.las/ |
cumulasses /ky.my.las/ |
cumulât /ky.my.la/ |
cumulassions /ky.my.la.sjɔ̃/ |
cumulassiez /ky.my.la.sje/ |
cumulassent /ky.my.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | cumule /ky.myl/ |
— | cumulons /ky.my.lɔ̃/ |
cumulez /ky.my.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “cumuler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) cumuler