gesticuler
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin gesticulor.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ʒɛs.ti.ky.le/
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Verb
[edit]gesticuler
- to gesticulate (make gestures)
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of gesticuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | gesticuler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | gesticulant /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | gesticulé /ʒɛs.ti.ky.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | gesticule /ʒɛs.ti.kyl/ |
gesticules /ʒɛs.ti.kyl/ |
gesticule /ʒɛs.ti.kyl/ |
gesticulons /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lɔ̃/ |
gesticulez /ʒɛs.ti.ky.le/ |
gesticulent /ʒɛs.ti.kyl/ |
| imperfect | gesticulais /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lɛ/ |
gesticulais /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lɛ/ |
gesticulait /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lɛ/ |
gesticulions /ʒɛs.ti.ky.ljɔ̃/ |
gesticuliez /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lje/ |
gesticulaient /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | gesticulai /ʒɛs.ti.ky.le/ |
gesticulas /ʒɛs.ti.ky.la/ |
gesticula /ʒɛs.ti.ky.la/ |
gesticulâmes /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lam/ |
gesticulâtes /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lat/ |
gesticulèrent /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | gesticulerai /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.ʁe/ |
gesticuleras /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.ʁa/ |
gesticulera /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.ʁa/ |
gesticulerons /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.ʁɔ̃/ |
gesticulerez /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.ʁe/ |
gesticuleront /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | gesticulerais /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.ʁɛ/ |
gesticulerais /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.ʁɛ/ |
gesticulerait /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.ʁɛ/ |
gesticulerions /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
gesticuleriez /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lə.ʁje/ |
gesticuleraient /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.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 | gesticule /ʒɛs.ti.kyl/ |
gesticules /ʒɛs.ti.kyl/ |
gesticule /ʒɛs.ti.kyl/ |
gesticulions /ʒɛs.ti.ky.ljɔ̃/ |
gesticuliez /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lje/ |
gesticulent /ʒɛs.ti.kyl/ |
| imperfect2 | gesticulasse /ʒɛs.ti.ky.las/ |
gesticulasses /ʒɛs.ti.ky.las/ |
gesticulât /ʒɛs.ti.ky.la/ |
gesticulassions /ʒɛs.ti.ky.la.sjɔ̃/ |
gesticulassiez /ʒɛs.ti.ky.la.sje/ |
gesticulassent /ʒɛs.ti.ky.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | gesticule /ʒɛs.ti.kyl/ |
— | gesticulons /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lɔ̃/ |
gesticulez /ʒɛs.ti.ky.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “gesticuler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012