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écouler
écouler
French
Verb
écouler
- to sell off, to shift
- (reflexive) to flow
- (reflexive, of time) to pass, to elapse
- (reflexive, of one's fortune) to diminish, to dwindle away slowly
Conjugation
Conjugation of écouler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | écouler | avoir écoulé | |||||
| gerund | en écoulant | en ayant écoulé | |||||
| present participle | écoulant /e.ku.lɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | écoulé /e.ku.le/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | écoule /e.kul/ |
écoules /e.kul/ |
écoule /e.kul/ |
écoulons /e.ku.lɔ̃/ |
écoulez /e.ku.le/ |
écoulent /e.kul/ |
| imperfect | écoulais /e.ku.lɛ/ |
écoulais /e.ku.lɛ/ |
écoulait /e.ku.lɛ/ |
écoulions /e.ku.ljɔ̃/ |
écouliez /e.ku.lje/ |
écoulaient /e.ku.lɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | écoulai /e.ku.le/ |
écoulas /e.ku.la/ |
écoula /e.ku.la/ |
écoulâmes /e.ku.lam/ |
écoulâtes /e.ku.lat/ |
écoulèrent /e.ku.lɛʁ/ |
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| future | écoulerai /e.kul.ʁe/ |
écouleras /e.kul.ʁa/ |
écoulera /e.kul.ʁa/ |
écoulerons /e.kul.ʁɔ̃/ |
écoulerez /e.kul.ʁe/ |
écouleront /e.kul.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | écoulerais /e.kul.ʁɛ/ |
écoulerais /e.kul.ʁɛ/ |
écoulerait /e.kul.ʁɛ/ |
écoulerions /e.ku.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
écouleriez /e.ku.lə.ʁje/ |
écouleraient /e.kul.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | écoule /e.kul/ |
écoules /e.kul/ |
écoule /e.kul/ |
écoulions /e.ku.ljɔ̃/ |
écouliez /e.ku.lje/ |
écoulent /e.kul/ |
| imperfect1 |
écoulasse /e.ku.las/ |
écoulasses /e.ku.las/ |
écoulât /e.ku.la/ |
écoulassions /e.ku.la.sjɔ̃/ |
écoulassiez /e.ku.la.sje/ |
écoulassent /e.ku.las/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | écoule /e.kul/ |
— | écoulons /e.ku.lɔ̃/ |
écoulez /e.ku.le/ |
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