amonceler

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ Old French moncel +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.mɔ̃.sle/

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Verb

amonceler

1. (reflexive) to build up; to accumulate
   • 1862, Victor Hugo, chapter 13, in Les Misérables, Tome I : Fantine, book 2:

     Des pensées inexprimables s’amoncelèrent ainsi en lui toute la journée.

     Inexpressible thoughts built up like this inside him all day long.

2. (transitive, uncommon) to pile up

Conjugation

With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.

Conjugation of amonceler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	amonceler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	amoncelant /a.mɔ̃.slɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		amoncelé /a.mɔ̃.sle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	amoncelle or amoncèle /a.mɔ̃.sɛl/	amoncelles or amoncèles /a.mɔ̃.sɛl/	amoncelle or amoncèle /a.mɔ̃.sɛl/	amoncelons /a.mɔ̃.slɔ̃/	amoncelez /a.mɔ̃.sle/	amoncellent or amoncèlent /a.mɔ̃.sɛl/
	imperfect	amoncelais /a.mɔ̃.slɛ/	amoncelais /a.mɔ̃.slɛ/	amoncelait /a.mɔ̃.slɛ/	amoncelions /a.mɔ̃.sə.ljɔ̃/	amonceliez /a.mɔ̃.sə.lje/	amoncelaient /a.mɔ̃.slɛ/
	past historic2	amoncelai /a.mɔ̃.sle/	amoncelas /a.mɔ̃.sla/	amoncela /a.mɔ̃.sla/	amoncelâmes /a.mɔ̃.slam/	amoncelâtes /a.mɔ̃.slat/	amoncelèrent /a.mɔ̃.slɛʁ/
	future	amoncellerai or amoncèlerai /a.mɔ̃.sɛl.ʁe/	amoncelleras or amoncèleras /a.mɔ̃.sɛl.ʁa/	amoncellera or amoncèlera /a.mɔ̃.sɛl.ʁa/	amoncellerons or amoncèlerons /a.mɔ̃.sɛl.ʁɔ̃/	amoncellerez or amoncèlerez /a.mɔ̃.sɛl.ʁe/	amoncelleront or amoncèleront /a.mɔ̃.sɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	amoncellerais or amoncèlerais /a.mɔ̃.sɛl.ʁɛ/	amoncellerais or amoncèlerais /a.mɔ̃.sɛl.ʁɛ/	amoncellerait or amoncèlerait /a.mɔ̃.sɛl.ʁɛ/	amoncellerions or amoncèlerions /a.mɔ̃.sɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /a.mɔ̃.se.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	amoncelleriez or amoncèleriez /a.mɔ̃.sɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /a.mɔ̃.se.lə.ʁje/	amoncelleraient or amoncèleraient /a.mɔ̃.sɛl.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	amoncelle or amoncèle /a.mɔ̃.sɛl/	amoncelles or amoncèles /a.mɔ̃.sɛl/	amoncelle or amoncèle /a.mɔ̃.sɛl/	amoncelions /a.mɔ̃.sə.ljɔ̃/	amonceliez /a.mɔ̃.sə.lje/	amoncellent or amoncèlent /a.mɔ̃.sɛl/
	imperfect2	amoncelasse /a.mɔ̃.slas/	amoncelasses /a.mɔ̃.slas/	amoncelât /a.mɔ̃.sla/	amoncelassions /a.mɔ̃.sla.sjɔ̃/	amoncelassiez /a.mɔ̃.sla.sje/	amoncelassent /a.mɔ̃.slas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	amoncelle or amoncèle /a.mɔ̃.sɛl/	—	amoncelons /a.mɔ̃.slɔ̃/	amoncelez /a.mɔ̃.sle/	—
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).

Descendants

• Saint Dominican Creole French: monceler

Further reading

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