truculer

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

truculer

1. (intransitive) to be truculent (in all senses)

Conjugation

Conjugation of truculer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	truculer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	truculant /tʁy.ky.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		truculé /tʁy.ky.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trucule /tʁy.kyl/	trucules /tʁy.kyl/	trucule /tʁy.kyl/	truculons /tʁy.ky.lɔ̃/	truculez /tʁy.ky.le/	truculent /tʁy.kyl/
	imperfect	truculais /tʁy.ky.lɛ/	truculais /tʁy.ky.lɛ/	truculait /tʁy.ky.lɛ/	truculions /tʁy.ky.ljɔ̃/	truculiez /tʁy.ky.lje/	truculaient /tʁy.ky.lɛ/
	past historic2	truculai /tʁy.ky.le/	truculas /tʁy.ky.la/	trucula /tʁy.ky.la/	truculâmes /tʁy.ky.lam/	truculâtes /tʁy.ky.lat/	truculèrent /tʁy.ky.lɛʁ/
	future	truculerai /tʁy.kyl.ʁe/	truculeras /tʁy.kyl.ʁa/	truculera /tʁy.kyl.ʁa/	truculerons /tʁy.kyl.ʁɔ̃/	truculerez /tʁy.kyl.ʁe/	truculeront /tʁy.kyl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	truculerais /tʁy.kyl.ʁɛ/	truculerais /tʁy.kyl.ʁɛ/	truculerait /tʁy.kyl.ʁɛ/	truculerions /tʁy.ky.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	truculeriez /tʁy.ky.lə.ʁje/	truculeraient /tʁy.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	trucule /tʁy.kyl/	trucules /tʁy.kyl/	trucule /tʁy.kyl/	truculions /tʁy.ky.ljɔ̃/	truculiez /tʁy.ky.lje/	truculent /tʁy.kyl/
	imperfect2	truculasse /tʁy.ky.las/	truculasses /tʁy.ky.las/	truculât /tʁy.ky.la/	truculassions /tʁy.ky.la.sjɔ̃/	truculassiez /tʁy.ky.la.sje/	truculassent /tʁy.ky.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trucule /tʁy.kyl/	—	truculons /tʁy.ky.lɔ̃/	truculez /tʁy.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

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