intituler

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French entituler, ultimately from Latin titulus (“title”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.ti.ty.le/

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Verb

intituler

1. (transitive) to title (eg. a book)
2. (reflexive) to be titled

Conjugation

Conjugation of intituler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	intituler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	intitulant /ɛ̃.ti.ty.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		intitulé /ɛ̃.ti.ty.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	intitule /ɛ̃.ti.tyl/	intitules /ɛ̃.ti.tyl/	intitule /ɛ̃.ti.tyl/	intitulons /ɛ̃.ti.ty.lɔ̃/	intitulez /ɛ̃.ti.ty.le/	intitulent /ɛ̃.ti.tyl/
	imperfect	intitulais /ɛ̃.ti.ty.lɛ/	intitulais /ɛ̃.ti.ty.lɛ/	intitulait /ɛ̃.ti.ty.lɛ/	intitulions /ɛ̃.ti.ty.ljɔ̃/	intituliez /ɛ̃.ti.ty.lje/	intitulaient /ɛ̃.ti.ty.lɛ/
	past historic2	intitulai /ɛ̃.ti.ty.le/	intitulas /ɛ̃.ti.ty.la/	intitula /ɛ̃.ti.ty.la/	intitulâmes /ɛ̃.ti.ty.lam/	intitulâtes /ɛ̃.ti.ty.lat/	intitulèrent /ɛ̃.ti.ty.lɛʁ/
	future	intitulerai /ɛ̃.ti.tyl.ʁe/	intituleras /ɛ̃.ti.tyl.ʁa/	intitulera /ɛ̃.ti.tyl.ʁa/	intitulerons /ɛ̃.ti.tyl.ʁɔ̃/	intitulerez /ɛ̃.ti.tyl.ʁe/	intituleront /ɛ̃.ti.tyl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	intitulerais /ɛ̃.ti.tyl.ʁɛ/	intitulerais /ɛ̃.ti.tyl.ʁɛ/	intitulerait /ɛ̃.ti.tyl.ʁɛ/	intitulerions /ɛ̃.ti.ty.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	intituleriez /ɛ̃.ti.ty.lə.ʁje/	intituleraient /ɛ̃.ti.tyl.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	intitule /ɛ̃.ti.tyl/	intitules /ɛ̃.ti.tyl/	intitule /ɛ̃.ti.tyl/	intitulions /ɛ̃.ti.ty.ljɔ̃/	intituliez /ɛ̃.ti.ty.lje/	intitulent /ɛ̃.ti.tyl/
	imperfect2	intitulasse /ɛ̃.ti.ty.las/	intitulasses /ɛ̃.ti.ty.las/	intitulât /ɛ̃.ti.ty.la/	intitulassions /ɛ̃.ti.ty.la.sjɔ̃/	intitulassiez /ɛ̃.ti.ty.la.sje/	intitulassent /ɛ̃.ti.ty.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	intitule /ɛ̃.ti.tyl/	—	intitulons /ɛ̃.ti.ty.lɔ̃/	intitulez /ɛ̃.ti.ty.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).

Further reading

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