interpeler

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin interpellāre (infinitive interpellāre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.le/

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Verb

interpeler

1. post-1990 spelling of interpeller

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 interpeler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	interpeler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	interpelant /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		interpelé /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	interpelle or interpèle /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl/	interpelles or interpèles /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl/	interpelle or interpèle /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl/	interpelons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.lɔ̃/	interpelez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.le/	interpellent or interpèlent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl/
	imperfect	interpelais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.lɛ/	interpelais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.lɛ/	interpelait /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.lɛ/	interpelions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.ljɔ̃/	interpeliez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.lje/	interpelaient /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.lɛ/
	past historic2	interpelai /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.le/	interpelas /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.la/	interpela /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.la/	interpelâmes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.lam/	interpelâtes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.lat/	interpelèrent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.lɛʁ/
	future	interpellerai or interpèlerai /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl.ʁe/	interpelleras or interpèleras /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl.ʁa/	interpellera or interpèlera /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl.ʁa/	interpellerons or interpèlerons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl.ʁɔ̃/	interpellerez or interpèlerez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl.ʁe/	interpelleront or interpèleront /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	interpellerais or interpèlerais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl.ʁɛ/	interpellerais or interpèlerais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl.ʁɛ/	interpellerait or interpèlerait /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl.ʁɛ/	interpellerions or interpèlerions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pe.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	interpelleriez or interpèleriez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pe.lə.ʁje/	interpelleraient or interpèleraient /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl.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	interpelle or interpèle /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl/	interpelles or interpèles /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl/	interpelle or interpèle /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl/	interpelions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.ljɔ̃/	interpeliez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.lje/	interpellent or interpèlent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl/
	imperfect2	interpelasse /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.las/	interpelasses /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.las/	interpelât /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.la/	interpelassions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.la.sjɔ̃/	interpelassiez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.la.sje/	interpelassent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	interpelle or interpèle /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pɛl/	—	interpelons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.lɔ̃/	interpelez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.pə.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).

Further reading

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