ruisseler

French

Etymology

From ruissel- +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɥi.sle/

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Verb

ruisseler

1. to stream, drip, pour

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il ruissèle and the third-person singular future indicative il ruissèlera.

Conjugation of ruisseler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ruisseler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ruisselant /ʁɥi.slɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ruisselé /ʁɥi.sle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ruissèle /ʁɥi.sɛl/	ruissèles /ʁɥi.sɛl/	ruissèle /ʁɥi.sɛl/	ruisselons /ʁɥi.slɔ̃/	ruisselez /ʁɥi.sle/	ruissèlent /ʁɥi.sɛl/
	imperfect	ruisselais /ʁɥi.slɛ/	ruisselais /ʁɥi.slɛ/	ruisselait /ʁɥi.slɛ/	ruisselions /ʁɥi.sə.ljɔ̃/	ruisseliez /ʁɥi.sə.lje/	ruisselaient /ʁɥi.slɛ/
	past historic2	ruisselai /ʁɥi.sle/	ruisselas /ʁɥi.sla/	ruissela /ʁɥi.sla/	ruisselâmes /ʁɥi.slam/	ruisselâtes /ʁɥi.slat/	ruisselèrent /ʁɥi.slɛʁ/
	future	ruissèlerai /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁe/	ruissèleras /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁa/	ruissèlera /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁa/	ruissèlerons /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁɔ̃/	ruissèlerez /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁe/	ruissèleront /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ruissèlerais /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁɛ/	ruissèlerais /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁɛ/	ruissèlerait /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁɛ/	ruissèlerions /ʁɥi.sɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁɥi.se.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	ruissèleriez /ʁɥi.sɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /ʁɥi.se.lə.ʁje/	ruissèleraient /ʁɥi.sɛl.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	ruissèle /ʁɥi.sɛl/	ruissèles /ʁɥi.sɛl/	ruissèle /ʁɥi.sɛl/	ruisselions /ʁɥi.sə.ljɔ̃/	ruisseliez /ʁɥi.sə.lje/	ruissèlent /ʁɥi.sɛl/
	imperfect2	ruisselasse /ʁɥi.slas/	ruisselasses /ʁɥi.slas/	ruisselât /ʁɥi.sla/	ruisselassions /ʁɥi.sla.sjɔ̃/	ruisselassiez /ʁɥi.sla.sje/	ruisselassent /ʁɥi.slas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ruissèle /ʁɥi.sɛl/	—	ruisselons /ʁɥi.slɔ̃/	ruisselez /ʁɥi.sle/	—
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).

Derived terms

• ruisseau
• ruissellement

Further reading

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