soulever
French edit
Etymology edit
From sou- + lever, or Latin sublevāre. Compare Spanish solevar.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
soulever
- to raise, to lift up, to pick up
- 2018, Zaz, Plume:
- Et quand je tombe, je rêve que l’air chaud me soulève.
- And when I fall, I dream that the warm air will lift me up.
- to stir up (emotions), to rouse (interest)
- (reflexive) to revolt, to rise up (against)
Conjugation edit
This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il soulève and the third-person singular future indicative il soulèvera.
Conjugation of soulever (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | soulever | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | soulevant /sul.vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | soulevé /sul.ve/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | soulève /su.lɛv/ |
soulèves /su.lɛv/ |
soulève /su.lɛv/ |
soulevons /sul.vɔ̃/ |
soulevez /sul.ve/ |
soulèvent /su.lɛv/ |
| imperfect | soulevais /sul.vɛ/ |
soulevais /sul.vɛ/ |
soulevait /sul.vɛ/ |
soulevions /su.lə.vjɔ̃/ |
souleviez /su.lə.vje/ |
soulevaient /sul.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | soulevai /sul.ve/ |
soulevas /sul.va/ |
souleva /sul.va/ |
soulevâmes /sul.vam/ |
soulevâtes /sul.vat/ |
soulevèrent /sul.vɛʁ/ | |
| future | soulèverai /su.lɛ.vʁe/ or /su.le.vʁe/ |
soulèveras /su.lɛ.vʁa/ or /su.le.vʁa/ |
soulèvera /su.lɛ.vʁa/ or /su.le.vʁa/ |
soulèverons /su.lɛ.vʁɔ̃/ or /su.le.vʁɔ̃/ |
soulèverez /su.lɛ.vʁe/ or /su.le.vʁe/ |
soulèveront /su.lɛ.vʁɔ̃/ or /su.le.vʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | soulèverais /su.lɛ.vʁɛ/ or /su.le.vʁɛ/ |
soulèverais /su.lɛ.vʁɛ/ or /su.le.vʁɛ/ |
soulèverait /su.lɛ.vʁɛ/ or /su.le.vʁɛ/ |
soulèverions /su.lɛ.və.ʁjɔ̃/ or /su.le.və.ʁjɔ̃/ |
soulèveriez /su.lɛ.və.ʁje/ or /su.le.və.ʁje/ |
soulèveraient /su.lɛ.vʁɛ/ or /su.le.vʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | soulève /su.lɛv/ |
soulèves /su.lɛv/ |
soulève /su.lɛv/ |
soulevions /su.lə.vjɔ̃/ |
souleviez /su.lə.vje/ |
soulèvent /su.lɛv/ |
| imperfect2 | soulevasse /sul.vas/ |
soulevasses /sul.vas/ |
soulevât /sul.va/ |
soulevassions /sul.va.sjɔ̃/ |
soulevassiez /sul.va.sje/ |
soulevassent /sul.vas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | soulève /su.lɛv/ |
— | soulevons /sul.vɔ̃/ |
soulevez /sul.ve/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “soulever”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.