consteller

French

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃s.tɛ.le/ ~ /kɔ̃s.te.le/

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Verb

consteller

1. to cluster
2. to constellate

Conjugation

Conjugation of consteller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	consteller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	constellant /kɔ̃s.tɛ.lɑ̃/ or /kɔ̃s.te.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		constellé /kɔ̃s.tɛ.le/ or /kɔ̃s.te.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	constelle /kɔ̃s.tɛl/	constelles /kɔ̃s.tɛl/	constelle /kɔ̃s.tɛl/	constellons /kɔ̃s.tɛ.lɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃s.te.lɔ̃/	constellez /kɔ̃s.tɛ.le/ or /kɔ̃s.te.le/	constellent /kɔ̃s.tɛl/
	imperfect	constellais /kɔ̃s.tɛ.lɛ/ or /kɔ̃s.te.lɛ/	constellais /kɔ̃s.tɛ.lɛ/ or /kɔ̃s.te.lɛ/	constellait /kɔ̃s.tɛ.lɛ/ or /kɔ̃s.te.lɛ/	constellions /kɔ̃s.tɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃s.te.ljɔ̃/	constelliez /kɔ̃s.tɛ.lje/ or /kɔ̃s.te.lje/	constellaient /kɔ̃s.tɛ.lɛ/ or /kɔ̃s.te.lɛ/
	past historic2	constellai /kɔ̃s.tɛ.le/ or /kɔ̃s.te.le/	constellas /kɔ̃s.tɛ.la/ or /kɔ̃s.te.la/	constella /kɔ̃s.tɛ.la/ or /kɔ̃s.te.la/	constellâmes /kɔ̃s.tɛ.lam/ or /kɔ̃s.te.lam/	constellâtes /kɔ̃s.tɛ.lat/ or /kɔ̃s.te.lat/	constellèrent /kɔ̃s.tɛ.lɛʁ/ or /kɔ̃s.te.lɛʁ/
	future	constellerai /kɔ̃s.tɛl.ʁe/	constelleras /kɔ̃s.tɛl.ʁa/	constellera /kɔ̃s.tɛl.ʁa/	constellerons /kɔ̃s.tɛl.ʁɔ̃/	constellerez /kɔ̃s.tɛl.ʁe/	constelleront /kɔ̃s.tɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	constellerais /kɔ̃s.tɛl.ʁɛ/	constellerais /kɔ̃s.tɛl.ʁɛ/	constellerait /kɔ̃s.tɛl.ʁɛ/	constellerions /kɔ̃s.tɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃s.te.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	constelleriez /kɔ̃s.tɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /kɔ̃s.te.lə.ʁje/	constelleraient /kɔ̃s.tɛl.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	constelle /kɔ̃s.tɛl/	constelles /kɔ̃s.tɛl/	constelle /kɔ̃s.tɛl/	constellions /kɔ̃s.tɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃s.te.ljɔ̃/	constelliez /kɔ̃s.tɛ.lje/ or /kɔ̃s.te.lje/	constellent /kɔ̃s.tɛl/
	imperfect2	constellasse /kɔ̃s.tɛ.las/ or /kɔ̃s.te.las/	constellasses /kɔ̃s.tɛ.las/ or /kɔ̃s.te.las/	constellât /kɔ̃s.tɛ.la/ or /kɔ̃s.te.la/	constellassions /kɔ̃s.tɛ.la.sjɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃s.te.la.sjɔ̃/	constellassiez /kɔ̃s.tɛ.la.sje/ or /kɔ̃s.te.la.sje/	constellassent /kɔ̃s.tɛ.las/ or /kɔ̃s.te.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	constelle /kɔ̃s.tɛl/	—	constellons /kɔ̃s.tɛ.lɔ̃/ or /kɔ̃s.te.lɔ̃/	constellez /kɔ̃s.tɛ.le/ or /kɔ̃s.te.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

• constellation

Further reading

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