intercaler

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin intercalāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.le/

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Verb

intercaler

1. to intercalate (add an extra day)
2. to insert
3. (rugby) to join in a ruck

Conjugation

Conjugation of intercaler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	intercaler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	intercalant /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		intercalé /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	intercale /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal/	intercales /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal/	intercale /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal/	intercalons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.lɔ̃/	intercalez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.le/	intercalent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal/
	imperfect	intercalais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.lɛ/	intercalais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.lɛ/	intercalait /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.lɛ/	intercalions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.ljɔ̃/	intercaliez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.lje/	intercalaient /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.lɛ/
	past historic2	intercalai /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.le/	intercalas /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.la/	intercala /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.la/	intercalâmes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.lam/	intercalâtes /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.lat/	intercalèrent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.lɛʁ/
	future	intercalerai /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal.ʁe/	intercaleras /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal.ʁa/	intercalera /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal.ʁa/	intercalerons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal.ʁɔ̃/	intercalerez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal.ʁe/	intercaleront /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	intercalerais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal.ʁɛ/	intercalerais /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal.ʁɛ/	intercalerait /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal.ʁɛ/	intercalerions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	intercaleriez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.lə.ʁje/	intercaleraient /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal.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	intercale /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal/	intercales /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal/	intercale /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal/	intercalions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.ljɔ̃/	intercaliez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.lje/	intercalent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal/
	imperfect2	intercalasse /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.las/	intercalasses /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.las/	intercalât /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.la/	intercalassions /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.la.sjɔ̃/	intercalassiez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.la.sje/	intercalassent /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	intercale /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.kal/	—	intercalons /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.lɔ̃/	intercalez /ɛ̃.tɛʁ.ka.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

• intercalaire
• intercalation

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

intercaler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of intercalō