cylindrer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

cylindrer

1. to roll
2. to make into a cylinder shape

Conjugation

Conjugation of cylindrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cylindrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cylindrant /si.lɛ̃.dʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cylindré /si.lɛ̃.dʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cylindre /si.lɛ̃dʁ/	cylindres /si.lɛ̃dʁ/	cylindre /si.lɛ̃dʁ/	cylindrons /si.lɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/	cylindrez /si.lɛ̃.dʁe/	cylindrent /si.lɛ̃dʁ/
	imperfect	cylindrais /si.lɛ̃.dʁɛ/	cylindrais /si.lɛ̃.dʁɛ/	cylindrait /si.lɛ̃.dʁɛ/	cylindrions /si.lɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	cylindriez /si.lɛ̃.dʁi.je/	cylindraient /si.lɛ̃.dʁɛ/
	past historic2	cylindrai /si.lɛ̃.dʁe/	cylindras /si.lɛ̃.dʁa/	cylindra /si.lɛ̃.dʁa/	cylindrâmes /si.lɛ̃.dʁam/	cylindrâtes /si.lɛ̃.dʁat/	cylindrèrent /si.lɛ̃.dʁɛʁ/
	future	cylindrerai /si.lɛ̃.dʁə.ʁe/	cylindreras /si.lɛ̃.dʁə.ʁa/	cylindrera /si.lɛ̃.dʁə.ʁa/	cylindrerons /si.lɛ̃.dʁə.ʁɔ̃/	cylindrerez /si.lɛ̃.dʁə.ʁe/	cylindreront /si.lɛ̃.dʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cylindrerais /si.lɛ̃.dʁə.ʁɛ/	cylindrerais /si.lɛ̃.dʁə.ʁɛ/	cylindrerait /si.lɛ̃.dʁə.ʁɛ/	cylindrerions /si.lɛ̃.dʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	cylindreriez /si.lɛ̃.dʁə.ʁje/	cylindreraient /si.lɛ̃.dʁə.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	cylindre /si.lɛ̃dʁ/	cylindres /si.lɛ̃dʁ/	cylindre /si.lɛ̃dʁ/	cylindrions /si.lɛ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	cylindriez /si.lɛ̃.dʁi.je/	cylindrent /si.lɛ̃dʁ/
	imperfect2	cylindrasse /si.lɛ̃.dʁas/	cylindrasses /si.lɛ̃.dʁas/	cylindrât /si.lɛ̃.dʁa/	cylindrassions /si.lɛ̃.dʁa.sjɔ̃/	cylindrassiez /si.lɛ̃.dʁa.sje/	cylindrassent /si.lɛ̃.dʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cylindre /si.lɛ̃dʁ/	—	cylindrons /si.lɛ̃.dʁɔ̃/	cylindrez /si.lɛ̃.dʁe/	—
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).

Further reading

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