stimuler

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin stimulāre, present active infinitive of stimulō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sti.my.le/

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Verb

stimuler

1. to stimulate
2. to whip up

Conjugation

Conjugation of stimuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	stimuler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	stimulant /sti.my.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		stimulé /sti.my.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	stimule /sti.myl/	stimules /sti.myl/	stimule /sti.myl/	stimulons /sti.my.lɔ̃/	stimulez /sti.my.le/	stimulent /sti.myl/
	imperfect	stimulais /sti.my.lɛ/	stimulais /sti.my.lɛ/	stimulait /sti.my.lɛ/	stimulions /sti.my.ljɔ̃/	stimuliez /sti.my.lje/	stimulaient /sti.my.lɛ/
	past historic2	stimulai /sti.my.le/	stimulas /sti.my.la/	stimula /sti.my.la/	stimulâmes /sti.my.lam/	stimulâtes /sti.my.lat/	stimulèrent /sti.my.lɛʁ/
	future	stimulerai /sti.myl.ʁe/	stimuleras /sti.myl.ʁa/	stimulera /sti.myl.ʁa/	stimulerons /sti.myl.ʁɔ̃/	stimulerez /sti.myl.ʁe/	stimuleront /sti.myl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	stimulerais /sti.myl.ʁɛ/	stimulerais /sti.myl.ʁɛ/	stimulerait /sti.myl.ʁɛ/	stimulerions /sti.my.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	stimuleriez /sti.my.lə.ʁje/	stimuleraient /sti.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	stimule /sti.myl/	stimules /sti.myl/	stimule /sti.myl/	stimulions /sti.my.ljɔ̃/	stimuliez /sti.my.lje/	stimulent /sti.myl/
	imperfect2	stimulasse /sti.my.las/	stimulasses /sti.my.las/	stimulât /sti.my.la/	stimulassions /sti.my.la.sjɔ̃/	stimulassiez /sti.my.la.sje/	stimulassent /sti.my.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	stimule /sti.myl/	—	stimulons /sti.my.lɔ̃/	stimulez /sti.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: 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).

Related terms

• stimulus

Further reading

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

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) stimuler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of stimulō

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

stimuler

1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of stimulere