aduler

See also: adulêr

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adulārī (“to fawn on, to flatter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dy.le/

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Verb

aduler

1. to adulate

Conjugation

Conjugation of aduler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	aduler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	adulant /a.dy.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		adulé /a.dy.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	adule /a.dyl/	adules /a.dyl/	adule /a.dyl/	adulons /a.dy.lɔ̃/	adulez /a.dy.le/	adulent /a.dyl/
	imperfect	adulais /a.dy.lɛ/	adulais /a.dy.lɛ/	adulait /a.dy.lɛ/	adulions /a.dy.ljɔ̃/	aduliez /a.dy.lje/	adulaient /a.dy.lɛ/
	past historic2	adulai /a.dy.le/	adulas /a.dy.la/	adula /a.dy.la/	adulâmes /a.dy.lam/	adulâtes /a.dy.lat/	adulèrent /a.dy.lɛʁ/
	future	adulerai /a.dyl.ʁe/	aduleras /a.dyl.ʁa/	adulera /a.dyl.ʁa/	adulerons /a.dyl.ʁɔ̃/	adulerez /a.dyl.ʁe/	aduleront /a.dyl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	adulerais /a.dyl.ʁɛ/	adulerais /a.dyl.ʁɛ/	adulerait /a.dyl.ʁɛ/	adulerions /a.dy.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	aduleriez /a.dy.lə.ʁje/	aduleraient /a.dyl.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	adule /a.dyl/	adules /a.dyl/	adule /a.dyl/	adulions /a.dy.ljɔ̃/	aduliez /a.dy.lje/	adulent /a.dyl/
	imperfect2	adulasse /a.dy.las/	adulasses /a.dy.las/	adulât /a.dy.la/	adulassions /a.dy.la.sjɔ̃/	adulassiez /a.dy.la.sje/	adulassent /a.dy.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	adule /a.dyl/	—	adulons /a.dy.lɔ̃/	adulez /a.dy.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).

Related terms

• adulation
• adulateur

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

adūler

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of adūlor