exulter

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French exulter, borrowed from Latin exsultāre, frequentative of exsiliō (“jump up”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zyl.te/

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Verb

exulter

1. to exult, rejoice

Conjugation

Conjugation of exulter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	exulter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	exultant /ɛɡ.zyl.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		exulté /ɛɡ.zyl.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	exulte /ɛɡ.zylt/	exultes /ɛɡ.zylt/	exulte /ɛɡ.zylt/	exultons /ɛɡ.zyl.tɔ̃/	exultez /ɛɡ.zyl.te/	exultent /ɛɡ.zylt/
	imperfect	exultais /ɛɡ.zyl.tɛ/	exultais /ɛɡ.zyl.tɛ/	exultait /ɛɡ.zyl.tɛ/	exultions /ɛɡ.zyl.tjɔ̃/	exultiez /ɛɡ.zyl.tje/	exultaient /ɛɡ.zyl.tɛ/
	past historic2	exultai /ɛɡ.zyl.te/	exultas /ɛɡ.zyl.ta/	exulta /ɛɡ.zyl.ta/	exultâmes /ɛɡ.zyl.tam/	exultâtes /ɛɡ.zyl.tat/	exultèrent /ɛɡ.zyl.tɛʁ/
	future	exulterai /ɛɡ.zyl.tə.ʁe/	exulteras /ɛɡ.zyl.tə.ʁa/	exultera /ɛɡ.zyl.tə.ʁa/	exulterons /ɛɡ.zyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/	exulterez /ɛɡ.zyl.tə.ʁe/	exulteront /ɛɡ.zyl.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	exulterais /ɛɡ.zyl.tə.ʁɛ/	exulterais /ɛɡ.zyl.tə.ʁɛ/	exulterait /ɛɡ.zyl.tə.ʁɛ/	exulterions /ɛɡ.zyl.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	exulteriez /ɛɡ.zyl.tə.ʁje/	exulteraient /ɛɡ.zyl.tə.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	exulte /ɛɡ.zylt/	exultes /ɛɡ.zylt/	exulte /ɛɡ.zylt/	exultions /ɛɡ.zyl.tjɔ̃/	exultiez /ɛɡ.zyl.tje/	exultent /ɛɡ.zylt/
	imperfect2	exultasse /ɛɡ.zyl.tas/	exultasses /ɛɡ.zyl.tas/	exultât /ɛɡ.zyl.ta/	exultassions /ɛɡ.zyl.ta.sjɔ̃/	exultassiez /ɛɡ.zyl.ta.sje/	exultassent /ɛɡ.zyl.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	exulte /ɛɡ.zylt/	—	exultons /ɛɡ.zyl.tɔ̃/	exultez /ɛɡ.zyl.te/	—
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

• exultant
• exultation

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

exulter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of exultō