cumuler

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cumulāre (“to heap together”). Doublet of the inherited combler.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.my.le/

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Verb

cumuler

1. to accumulate
2. to multitask (do many things at once)

Conjugation

Conjugation of cumuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cumuler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cumulant /ky.my.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cumulé /ky.my.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cumule /ky.myl/	cumules /ky.myl/	cumule /ky.myl/	cumulons /ky.my.lɔ̃/	cumulez /ky.my.le/	cumulent /ky.myl/
	imperfect	cumulais /ky.my.lɛ/	cumulais /ky.my.lɛ/	cumulait /ky.my.lɛ/	cumulions /ky.my.ljɔ̃/	cumuliez /ky.my.lje/	cumulaient /ky.my.lɛ/
	past historic2	cumulai /ky.my.le/	cumulas /ky.my.la/	cumula /ky.my.la/	cumulâmes /ky.my.lam/	cumulâtes /ky.my.lat/	cumulèrent /ky.my.lɛʁ/
	future	cumulerai /ky.myl.ʁe/	cumuleras /ky.myl.ʁa/	cumulera /ky.myl.ʁa/	cumulerons /ky.myl.ʁɔ̃/	cumulerez /ky.myl.ʁe/	cumuleront /ky.myl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cumulerais /ky.myl.ʁɛ/	cumulerais /ky.myl.ʁɛ/	cumulerait /ky.myl.ʁɛ/	cumulerions /ky.my.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	cumuleriez /ky.my.lə.ʁje/	cumuleraient /ky.myl.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	cumule /ky.myl/	cumules /ky.myl/	cumule /ky.myl/	cumulions /ky.my.ljɔ̃/	cumuliez /ky.my.lje/	cumulent /ky.myl/
	imperfect2	cumulasse /ky.my.las/	cumulasses /ky.my.las/	cumulât /ky.my.la/	cumulassions /ky.my.la.sjɔ̃/	cumulassiez /ky.my.la.sje/	cumulassent /ky.my.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cumule /ky.myl/	—	cumulons /ky.my.lɔ̃/	cumulez /ky.my.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

• accumuler
• combler
• cumulus

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

cumuler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of cumulō