fulgurer

French

Etymology

From fulgurant or borrowed from Latin fulgurāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fyl.ɡy.ʁe/

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Verb

fulgurer

1. to fulgurate

Conjugation

Conjugation of fulgurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	fulgurer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	fulgurant /fyl.ɡy.ʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		fulguré /fyl.ɡy.ʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	fulgure /fyl.ɡyʁ/	fulgures /fyl.ɡyʁ/	fulgure /fyl.ɡyʁ/	fulgurons /fyl.ɡy.ʁɔ̃/	fulgurez /fyl.ɡy.ʁe/	fulgurent /fyl.ɡyʁ/
	imperfect	fulgurais /fyl.ɡy.ʁɛ/	fulgurais /fyl.ɡy.ʁɛ/	fulgurait /fyl.ɡy.ʁɛ/	fulgurions /fyl.ɡy.ʁjɔ̃/	fulguriez /fyl.ɡy.ʁje/	fulguraient /fyl.ɡy.ʁɛ/
	past historic2	fulgurai /fyl.ɡy.ʁe/	fulguras /fyl.ɡy.ʁa/	fulgura /fyl.ɡy.ʁa/	fulgurâmes /fyl.ɡy.ʁam/	fulgurâtes /fyl.ɡy.ʁat/	fulgurèrent /fyl.ɡy.ʁɛʁ/
	future	fulgurerai /fyl.ɡy.ʁə.ʁe/	fulgureras /fyl.ɡy.ʁə.ʁa/	fulgurera /fyl.ɡy.ʁə.ʁa/	fulgurerons /fyl.ɡy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/	fulgurerez /fyl.ɡy.ʁə.ʁe/	fulgureront /fyl.ɡy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	fulgurerais /fyl.ɡy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	fulgurerais /fyl.ɡy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	fulgurerait /fyl.ɡy.ʁə.ʁɛ/	fulgurerions /fyl.ɡy.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	fulgureriez /fyl.ɡy.ʁə.ʁje/	fulgureraient /fyl.ɡy.ʁə.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	fulgure /fyl.ɡyʁ/	fulgures /fyl.ɡyʁ/	fulgure /fyl.ɡyʁ/	fulgurions /fyl.ɡy.ʁjɔ̃/	fulguriez /fyl.ɡy.ʁje/	fulgurent /fyl.ɡyʁ/
	imperfect2	fulgurasse /fyl.ɡy.ʁas/	fulgurasses /fyl.ɡy.ʁas/	fulgurât /fyl.ɡy.ʁa/	fulgurassions /fyl.ɡy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/	fulgurassiez /fyl.ɡy.ʁa.sje/	fulgurassent /fyl.ɡy.ʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	fulgure /fyl.ɡyʁ/	—	fulgurons /fyl.ɡy.ʁɔ̃/	fulgurez /fyl.ɡy.ʁe/	—
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).

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

fulgurer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of fulgurō