inculquer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inculcāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kyl.ke/

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Verb

inculquer

1. to inculcate
2. to instill into

Conjugation

Conjugation of inculquer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	inculquer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	inculquant /ɛ̃.kyl.kɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		inculqué /ɛ̃.kyl.ke/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	inculque /ɛ̃.kylk/	inculques /ɛ̃.kylk/	inculque /ɛ̃.kylk/	inculquons /ɛ̃.kyl.kɔ̃/	inculquez /ɛ̃.kyl.ke/	inculquent /ɛ̃.kylk/
	imperfect	inculquais /ɛ̃.kyl.kɛ/	inculquais /ɛ̃.kyl.kɛ/	inculquait /ɛ̃.kyl.kɛ/	inculquions /ɛ̃.kyl.kjɔ̃/	inculquiez /ɛ̃.kyl.kje/	inculquaient /ɛ̃.kyl.kɛ/
	past historic2	inculquai /ɛ̃.kyl.ke/	inculquas /ɛ̃.kyl.ka/	inculqua /ɛ̃.kyl.ka/	inculquâmes /ɛ̃.kyl.kam/	inculquâtes /ɛ̃.kyl.kat/	inculquèrent /ɛ̃.kyl.kɛʁ/
	future	inculquerai /ɛ̃.kyl.kə.ʁe/	inculqueras /ɛ̃.kyl.kə.ʁa/	inculquera /ɛ̃.kyl.kə.ʁa/	inculquerons /ɛ̃.kyl.kə.ʁɔ̃/	inculquerez /ɛ̃.kyl.kə.ʁe/	inculqueront /ɛ̃.kyl.kə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	inculquerais /ɛ̃.kyl.kə.ʁɛ/	inculquerais /ɛ̃.kyl.kə.ʁɛ/	inculquerait /ɛ̃.kyl.kə.ʁɛ/	inculquerions /ɛ̃.kyl.kə.ʁjɔ̃/	inculqueriez /ɛ̃.kyl.kə.ʁje/	inculqueraient /ɛ̃.kyl.kə.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	inculque /ɛ̃.kylk/	inculques /ɛ̃.kylk/	inculque /ɛ̃.kylk/	inculquions /ɛ̃.kyl.kjɔ̃/	inculquiez /ɛ̃.kyl.kje/	inculquent /ɛ̃.kylk/
	imperfect2	inculquasse /ɛ̃.kyl.kas/	inculquasses /ɛ̃.kyl.kas/	inculquât /ɛ̃.kyl.ka/	inculquassions /ɛ̃.kyl.ka.sjɔ̃/	inculquassiez /ɛ̃.kyl.ka.sje/	inculquassent /ɛ̃.kyl.kas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	inculque /ɛ̃.kylk/	—	inculquons /ɛ̃.kyl.kɔ̃/	inculquez /ɛ̃.kyl.ke/	—
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

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