maculer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin maculāre (infinitive maculāre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ky.le/

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Verb

maculer

1. to mark; to spoil (with a mark or marks)

Conjugation

Conjugation of maculer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	maculer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	maculant /ma.ky.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		maculé /ma.ky.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	macule /ma.kyl/	macules /ma.kyl/	macule /ma.kyl/	maculons /ma.ky.lɔ̃/	maculez /ma.ky.le/	maculent /ma.kyl/
	imperfect	maculais /ma.ky.lɛ/	maculais /ma.ky.lɛ/	maculait /ma.ky.lɛ/	maculions /ma.ky.ljɔ̃/	maculiez /ma.ky.lje/	maculaient /ma.ky.lɛ/
	past historic2	maculai /ma.ky.le/	maculas /ma.ky.la/	macula /ma.ky.la/	maculâmes /ma.ky.lam/	maculâtes /ma.ky.lat/	maculèrent /ma.ky.lɛʁ/
	future	maculerai /ma.kyl.ʁe/	maculeras /ma.kyl.ʁa/	maculera /ma.kyl.ʁa/	maculerons /ma.kyl.ʁɔ̃/	maculerez /ma.kyl.ʁe/	maculeront /ma.kyl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	maculerais /ma.kyl.ʁɛ/	maculerais /ma.kyl.ʁɛ/	maculerait /ma.kyl.ʁɛ/	maculerions /ma.ky.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	maculeriez /ma.ky.lə.ʁje/	maculeraient /ma.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	macule /ma.kyl/	macules /ma.kyl/	macule /ma.kyl/	maculions /ma.ky.ljɔ̃/	maculiez /ma.ky.lje/	maculent /ma.kyl/
	imperfect2	maculasse /ma.ky.las/	maculasses /ma.ky.las/	maculât /ma.ky.la/	maculassions /ma.ky.la.sjɔ̃/	maculassiez /ma.ky.la.sje/	maculassent /ma.ky.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	macule /ma.kyl/	—	maculons /ma.ky.lɔ̃/	maculez /ma.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).

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• clameur

Latin

Verb

maculer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of maculō