osciller

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin oscillāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.si.le/, (proscribed but common) /ɔ.si.je/

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Verb

osciller

1. to oscillate
2. to wobble

Conjugation

Conjugation of osciller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	osciller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	oscillant /ɔ.si.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		oscillé /ɔ.si.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	oscille /ɔ.sil/	oscilles /ɔ.sil/	oscille /ɔ.sil/	oscillons /ɔ.si.lɔ̃/	oscillez /ɔ.si.le/	oscillent /ɔ.sil/
	imperfect	oscillais /ɔ.si.lɛ/	oscillais /ɔ.si.lɛ/	oscillait /ɔ.si.lɛ/	oscillions /ɔ.si.ljɔ̃/	oscilliez /ɔ.si.lje/	oscillaient /ɔ.si.lɛ/
	past historic2	oscillai /ɔ.si.le/	oscillas /ɔ.si.la/	oscilla /ɔ.si.la/	oscillâmes /ɔ.si.lam/	oscillâtes /ɔ.si.lat/	oscillèrent /ɔ.si.lɛʁ/
	future	oscillerai /ɔ.sil.ʁe/	oscilleras /ɔ.sil.ʁa/	oscillera /ɔ.sil.ʁa/	oscillerons /ɔ.sil.ʁɔ̃/	oscillerez /ɔ.sil.ʁe/	oscilleront /ɔ.sil.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	oscillerais /ɔ.sil.ʁɛ/	oscillerais /ɔ.sil.ʁɛ/	oscillerait /ɔ.sil.ʁɛ/	oscillerions /ɔ.si.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	oscilleriez /ɔ.si.lə.ʁje/	oscilleraient /ɔ.sil.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	oscille /ɔ.sil/	oscilles /ɔ.sil/	oscille /ɔ.sil/	oscillions /ɔ.si.ljɔ̃/	oscilliez /ɔ.si.lje/	oscillent /ɔ.sil/
	imperfect2	oscillasse /ɔ.si.las/	oscillasses /ɔ.si.las/	oscillât /ɔ.si.la/	oscillassions /ɔ.si.la.sjɔ̃/	oscillassiez /ɔ.si.la.sje/	oscillassent /ɔ.si.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	oscille /ɔ.sil/	—	oscillons /ɔ.si.lɔ̃/	oscillez /ɔ.si.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).

Related terms

• oscillation

Further reading

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