manipuler

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin manipulō, manipulāre.

Pronunciation

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Verb

manipuler

1. to manipulate

Conjugation

Conjugation of manipuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	manipuler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	manipulant /ma.ni.py.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		manipulé /ma.ni.py.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	manipule /ma.ni.pyl/	manipules /ma.ni.pyl/	manipule /ma.ni.pyl/	manipulons /ma.ni.py.lɔ̃/	manipulez /ma.ni.py.le/	manipulent /ma.ni.pyl/
	imperfect	manipulais /ma.ni.py.lɛ/	manipulais /ma.ni.py.lɛ/	manipulait /ma.ni.py.lɛ/	manipulions /ma.ni.py.ljɔ̃/	manipuliez /ma.ni.py.lje/	manipulaient /ma.ni.py.lɛ/
	past historic2	manipulai /ma.ni.py.le/	manipulas /ma.ni.py.la/	manipula /ma.ni.py.la/	manipulâmes /ma.ni.py.lam/	manipulâtes /ma.ni.py.lat/	manipulèrent /ma.ni.py.lɛʁ/
	future	manipulerai /ma.ni.pyl.ʁe/	manipuleras /ma.ni.pyl.ʁa/	manipulera /ma.ni.pyl.ʁa/	manipulerons /ma.ni.pyl.ʁɔ̃/	manipulerez /ma.ni.pyl.ʁe/	manipuleront /ma.ni.pyl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	manipulerais /ma.ni.pyl.ʁɛ/	manipulerais /ma.ni.pyl.ʁɛ/	manipulerait /ma.ni.pyl.ʁɛ/	manipulerions /ma.ni.py.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	manipuleriez /ma.ni.py.lə.ʁje/	manipuleraient /ma.ni.pyl.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	manipule /ma.ni.pyl/	manipules /ma.ni.pyl/	manipule /ma.ni.pyl/	manipulions /ma.ni.py.ljɔ̃/	manipuliez /ma.ni.py.lje/	manipulent /ma.ni.pyl/
	imperfect2	manipulasse /ma.ni.py.las/	manipulasses /ma.ni.py.las/	manipulât /ma.ni.py.la/	manipulassions /ma.ni.py.la.sjɔ̃/	manipulassiez /ma.ni.py.la.sje/	manipulassent /ma.ni.py.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	manipule /ma.ni.pyl/	—	manipulons /ma.ni.py.lɔ̃/	manipulez /ma.ni.py.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).

Derived terms

• manipulateur
• manipulation

Further reading

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

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Verb

manipuler

1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of manipulere