articuler

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin articulāre. See also article.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʁ.ti.ky.le/

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Verb

articuler

1. to join, articulate

Conjugation

Conjugation of articuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	articuler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	articulant /aʁ.ti.ky.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		articulé /aʁ.ti.ky.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	articule /aʁ.ti.kyl/	articules /aʁ.ti.kyl/	articule /aʁ.ti.kyl/	articulons /aʁ.ti.ky.lɔ̃/	articulez /aʁ.ti.ky.le/	articulent /aʁ.ti.kyl/
	imperfect	articulais /aʁ.ti.ky.lɛ/	articulais /aʁ.ti.ky.lɛ/	articulait /aʁ.ti.ky.lɛ/	articulions /aʁ.ti.ky.ljɔ̃/	articuliez /aʁ.ti.ky.lje/	articulaient /aʁ.ti.ky.lɛ/
	past historic2	articulai /aʁ.ti.ky.le/	articulas /aʁ.ti.ky.la/	articula /aʁ.ti.ky.la/	articulâmes /aʁ.ti.ky.lam/	articulâtes /aʁ.ti.ky.lat/	articulèrent /aʁ.ti.ky.lɛʁ/
	future	articulerai /aʁ.ti.kyl.ʁe/	articuleras /aʁ.ti.kyl.ʁa/	articulera /aʁ.ti.kyl.ʁa/	articulerons /aʁ.ti.kyl.ʁɔ̃/	articulerez /aʁ.ti.kyl.ʁe/	articuleront /aʁ.ti.kyl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	articulerais /aʁ.ti.kyl.ʁɛ/	articulerais /aʁ.ti.kyl.ʁɛ/	articulerait /aʁ.ti.kyl.ʁɛ/	articulerions /aʁ.ti.ky.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	articuleriez /aʁ.ti.ky.lə.ʁje/	articuleraient /aʁ.ti.kyl.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	articule /aʁ.ti.kyl/	articules /aʁ.ti.kyl/	articule /aʁ.ti.kyl/	articulions /aʁ.ti.ky.ljɔ̃/	articuliez /aʁ.ti.ky.lje/	articulent /aʁ.ti.kyl/
	imperfect2	articulasse /aʁ.ti.ky.las/	articulasses /aʁ.ti.ky.las/	articulât /aʁ.ti.ky.la/	articulassions /aʁ.ti.ky.la.sjɔ̃/	articulassiez /aʁ.ti.ky.la.sje/	articulassent /aʁ.ti.ky.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	articule /aʁ.ti.kyl/	—	articulons /aʁ.ti.ky.lɔ̃/	articulez /aʁ.ti.ky.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).

Derived terms

• désarticuler

Related terms

• articulation

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

articuler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of articulō