accumuler

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin accumulāre (“accumulate”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ky.my.le/
• Homophones: accumulai, accumulé, accumulée, accumulées, accumulés, accumulez

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Verb

accumuler

1. to accumulate

Conjugation

Conjugation of accumuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	accumuler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	accumulant /a.ky.my.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		accumulé /a.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	accumule /a.ky.myl/	accumules /a.ky.myl/	accumule /a.ky.myl/	accumulons /a.ky.my.lɔ̃/	accumulez /a.ky.my.le/	accumulent /a.ky.myl/
	imperfect	accumulais /a.ky.my.lɛ/	accumulais /a.ky.my.lɛ/	accumulait /a.ky.my.lɛ/	accumulions /a.ky.my.ljɔ̃/	accumuliez /a.ky.my.lje/	accumulaient /a.ky.my.lɛ/
	past historic2	accumulai /a.ky.my.le/	accumulas /a.ky.my.la/	accumula /a.ky.my.la/	accumulâmes /a.ky.my.lam/	accumulâtes /a.ky.my.lat/	accumulèrent /a.ky.my.lɛʁ/
	future	accumulerai /a.ky.myl.ʁe/	accumuleras /a.ky.myl.ʁa/	accumulera /a.ky.myl.ʁa/	accumulerons /a.ky.myl.ʁɔ̃/	accumulerez /a.ky.myl.ʁe/	accumuleront /a.ky.myl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	accumulerais /a.ky.myl.ʁɛ/	accumulerais /a.ky.myl.ʁɛ/	accumulerait /a.ky.myl.ʁɛ/	accumulerions /a.ky.my.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	accumuleriez /a.ky.my.lə.ʁje/	accumuleraient /a.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	accumule /a.ky.myl/	accumules /a.ky.myl/	accumule /a.ky.myl/	accumulions /a.ky.my.ljɔ̃/	accumuliez /a.ky.my.lje/	accumulent /a.ky.myl/
	imperfect2	accumulasse /a.ky.my.las/	accumulasses /a.ky.my.las/	accumulât /a.ky.my.la/	accumulassions /a.ky.my.la.sjɔ̃/	accumulassiez /a.ky.my.la.sje/	accumulassent /a.ky.my.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	accumule /a.ky.myl/	—	accumulons /a.ky.my.lɔ̃/	accumulez /a.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: 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

• accumulation
• combler

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

accumuler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of accumulō