muscler

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mys.kle/

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Verb

muscler

1. (transitive) to develop someone's muscles, to muscle up

   Il passe toutes ses journées à se muscler. ― He spends all his time building up his muscles.

Conjugation

Conjugation of muscler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	muscler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	musclant /mys.klɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		musclé /mys.kle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	muscle /myskl/	muscles /myskl/	muscle /myskl/	musclons /mys.klɔ̃/	musclez /mys.kle/	musclent /myskl/
	imperfect	musclais /mys.klɛ/	musclais /mys.klɛ/	musclait /mys.klɛ/	musclions /mys.kli.jɔ̃/	muscliez /mys.kli.je/	musclaient /mys.klɛ/
	past historic2	musclai /mys.kle/	musclas /mys.kla/	muscla /mys.kla/	musclâmes /mys.klam/	musclâtes /mys.klat/	musclèrent /mys.klɛʁ/
	future	musclerai /mys.klə.ʁe/	muscleras /mys.klə.ʁa/	musclera /mys.klə.ʁa/	musclerons /mys.klə.ʁɔ̃/	musclerez /mys.klə.ʁe/	muscleront /mys.klə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	musclerais /mys.klə.ʁɛ/	musclerais /mys.klə.ʁɛ/	musclerait /mys.klə.ʁɛ/	musclerions /mys.klə.ʁjɔ̃/	muscleriez /mys.klə.ʁje/	muscleraient /mys.klə.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	muscle /myskl/	muscles /myskl/	muscle /myskl/	musclions /mys.kli.jɔ̃/	muscliez /mys.kli.je/	musclent /myskl/
	imperfect2	musclasse /mys.klas/	musclasses /mys.klas/	musclât /mys.kla/	musclassions /mys.kla.sjɔ̃/	musclassiez /mys.kla.sje/	musclassent /mys.klas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	muscle /myskl/	—	musclons /mys.klɔ̃/	musclez /mys.kle/	—
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

• musclé
• muscle
• musculature
• musculaire
• musculation
• musculeux

Further reading

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