exclure

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exclūdere. Doublet of the inherited éclore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.sklyʁ/

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Verb

exclure

1. to exclude
2. to leave out

Conjugation

Conjugation of exclure (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	exclure
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	excluant /ɛk.skly.ɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		exclu /ɛk.skly/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	exclus /ɛk.skly/	exclus /ɛk.skly/	exclut /ɛk.skly/	excluons /ɛk.skly.ɔ̃/	excluez /ɛk.skly.e/	excluent /ɛk.skly/
	imperfect	excluais /ɛk.skly.ɛ/	excluais /ɛk.skly.ɛ/	excluait /ɛk.skly.ɛ/	excluions /ɛk.skly.jɔ̃/	excluiez /ɛk.skly.je/	excluaient /ɛk.skly.ɛ/
	past historic2	exclus /ɛk.skly/	exclus /ɛk.skly/	exclut /ɛk.skly/	exclûmes /ɛk.sklym/	exclûtes /ɛk.sklyt/	exclurent /ɛk.sklyʁ/
	future	exclurai /ɛk.skly.ʁe/	excluras /ɛk.skly.ʁa/	exclura /ɛk.skly.ʁa/	exclurons /ɛk.skly.ʁɔ̃/	exclurez /ɛk.skly.ʁe/	excluront /ɛk.skly.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	exclurais /ɛk.skly.ʁɛ/	exclurais /ɛk.skly.ʁɛ/	exclurait /ɛk.skly.ʁɛ/	exclurions /ɛk.skly.ʁjɔ̃/	excluriez /ɛk.skly.ʁje/	excluraient /ɛk.skly.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	exclue /ɛk.skly/	exclues /ɛk.skly/	exclue /ɛk.skly/	excluions /ɛk.skly.jɔ̃/	excluiez /ɛk.skly.je/	excluent /ɛk.skly/
	imperfect2	exclusse /ɛk.sklys/	exclusses /ɛk.sklys/	exclût /ɛk.skly/	exclussions /ɛk.skly.sjɔ̃/	exclussiez /ɛk.skly.sje/	exclussent /ɛk.sklys/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	exclus /ɛk.skly/	—	excluons /ɛk.skly.ɔ̃/	excluez /ɛk.skly.e/	—
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).

Antonyms

• inclure

Derived terms

• exclusion

Related terms

• exclusif

Further reading

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