gicler

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Franco-Provençal gicllar or Occitan gisclar, from Vulgar Latin *cistulāre, an alteration of Latin fistulāre (“to play the flute”), which is derived from Latin fistula (“flute”). Compare Catalan xisclar and Spanish chillar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒi.kle/

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Verb

gicler

1. to squirt, to spurt

Conjugation

Conjugation of gicler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	gicler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	giclant /ʒi.klɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		giclé /ʒi.kle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	gicle /ʒikl/	gicles /ʒikl/	gicle /ʒikl/	giclons /ʒi.klɔ̃/	giclez /ʒi.kle/	giclent /ʒikl/
	imperfect	giclais /ʒi.klɛ/	giclais /ʒi.klɛ/	giclait /ʒi.klɛ/	giclions /ʒi.kli.jɔ̃/	gicliez /ʒi.kli.je/	giclaient /ʒi.klɛ/
	past historic2	giclai /ʒi.kle/	giclas /ʒi.kla/	gicla /ʒi.kla/	giclâmes /ʒi.klam/	giclâtes /ʒi.klat/	giclèrent /ʒi.klɛʁ/
	future	giclerai /ʒi.klə.ʁe/	gicleras /ʒi.klə.ʁa/	giclera /ʒi.klə.ʁa/	giclerons /ʒi.klə.ʁɔ̃/	giclerez /ʒi.klə.ʁe/	gicleront /ʒi.klə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	giclerais /ʒi.klə.ʁɛ/	giclerais /ʒi.klə.ʁɛ/	giclerait /ʒi.klə.ʁɛ/	giclerions /ʒi.klə.ʁjɔ̃/	gicleriez /ʒi.klə.ʁje/	gicleraient /ʒi.klə.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	gicle /ʒikl/	gicles /ʒikl/	gicle /ʒikl/	giclions /ʒi.kli.jɔ̃/	gicliez /ʒi.kli.je/	giclent /ʒikl/
	imperfect2	giclasse /ʒi.klas/	giclasses /ʒi.klas/	giclât /ʒi.kla/	giclassions /ʒi.kla.sjɔ̃/	giclassiez /ʒi.kla.sje/	giclassent /ʒi.klas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	gicle /ʒikl/	—	giclons /ʒi.klɔ̃/	giclez /ʒi.kle/	—
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

• giclée
• giclement
• gicleur

Further reading

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