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caracoler
caracoler
French
Verb
caracoler
- (of a horse) to caracole
- go round and round, buzz round, flit about, flit around
- (figuratively) to sit pretty, to be (well) ahead, nestle (appear comfortable at the top of a ranking)
- ses tubes caracolent en tête du classement
- their tunes are high at the top of the charts.
- ses tubes caracolent en tête du classement
Conjugation
Conjugation of caracoler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | caracoler | avoir caracolé | |||||
| gerund | en caracolant | en ayant caracolé | |||||
| present participle | caracolant /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | caracolé /ka.ʁa.kɔ.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 | caracole /ka.ʁa.kɔl/ |
caracoles /ka.ʁa.kɔl/ |
caracole /ka.ʁa.kɔl/ |
caracolons /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lɔ̃/ |
caracolez /ka.ʁa.kɔ.le/ |
caracolent /ka.ʁa.kɔl/ |
| imperfect | caracolais /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lɛ/ |
caracolais /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lɛ/ |
caracolait /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lɛ/ |
caracolions /ka.ʁa.kɔ.ljɔ̃/ |
caracoliez /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lje/ |
caracolaient /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | caracolai /ka.ʁa.kɔ.le/ |
caracolas /ka.ʁa.kɔ.la/ |
caracola /ka.ʁa.kɔ.la/ |
caracolâmes /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lam/ |
caracolâtes /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lat/ |
caracolèrent /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lɛʁ/ |
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| future | caracolerai /ka.ʁa.kɔl.ʁe/ |
caracoleras /ka.ʁa.kɔl.ʁa/ |
caracolera /ka.ʁa.kɔl.ʁa/ |
caracolerons /ka.ʁa.kɔl.ʁɔ̃/ |
caracolerez /ka.ʁa.kɔl.ʁe/ |
caracoleront /ka.ʁa.kɔl.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | caracolerais /ka.ʁa.kɔl.ʁɛ/ |
caracolerais /ka.ʁa.kɔl.ʁɛ/ |
caracolerait /ka.ʁa.kɔl.ʁɛ/ |
caracolerions /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
caracoleriez /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lə.ʁje/ |
caracoleraient /ka.ʁa.kɔl.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 | caracole /ka.ʁa.kɔl/ |
caracoles /ka.ʁa.kɔl/ |
caracole /ka.ʁa.kɔl/ |
caracolions /ka.ʁa.kɔ.ljɔ̃/ |
caracoliez /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lje/ |
caracolent /ka.ʁa.kɔl/ |
| imperfect1 |
caracolasse /ka.ʁa.kɔ.las/ |
caracolasses /ka.ʁa.kɔ.las/ |
caracolât /ka.ʁa.kɔ.la/ |
caracolassions /ka.ʁa.kɔ.la.sjɔ̃/ |
caracolassiez /ka.ʁa.kɔ.la.sje/ |
caracolassent /ka.ʁa.kɔ.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 | – | |
| — | caracole /ka.ʁa.kɔl/ |
— | caracolons /ka.ʁa.kɔ.lɔ̃/ |
caracolez /ka.ʁa.kɔ.le/ |
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