amonceler
French edit
Etymology edit
From a- + Old French moncel + -er.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
amonceler
- (reflexive) to build up; to accumulate
- 1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, I.2.xiii:
- Des pensées inexprimables s’amoncelèrent ainsi en lui toute la journée.
- Inexpressible thoughts built up like this inside him all day long.
- (transitive, uncommon) to pile up
Conjugation edit
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Descendants edit
- Saint Dominican Creole French: monceler
Further reading edit
- “amonceler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.