moduler

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin modulor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.dy.le/

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Verb

moduler

1. (transitive) to modulate
2. (intransitive, music) to modulate (to move from one key or tonality to another, especially by using a chord progression)

Conjugation

Conjugation of moduler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	moduler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	modulant /mɔ.dy.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		modulé /mɔ.dy.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	module /mɔ.dyl/	modules /mɔ.dyl/	module /mɔ.dyl/	modulons /mɔ.dy.lɔ̃/	modulez /mɔ.dy.le/	modulent /mɔ.dyl/
	imperfect	modulais /mɔ.dy.lɛ/	modulais /mɔ.dy.lɛ/	modulait /mɔ.dy.lɛ/	modulions /mɔ.dy.ljɔ̃/	moduliez /mɔ.dy.lje/	modulaient /mɔ.dy.lɛ/
	past historic2	modulai /mɔ.dy.le/	modulas /mɔ.dy.la/	modula /mɔ.dy.la/	modulâmes /mɔ.dy.lam/	modulâtes /mɔ.dy.lat/	modulèrent /mɔ.dy.lɛʁ/
	future	modulerai /mɔ.dyl.ʁe/	moduleras /mɔ.dyl.ʁa/	modulera /mɔ.dyl.ʁa/	modulerons /mɔ.dyl.ʁɔ̃/	modulerez /mɔ.dyl.ʁe/	moduleront /mɔ.dyl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	modulerais /mɔ.dyl.ʁɛ/	modulerais /mɔ.dyl.ʁɛ/	modulerait /mɔ.dyl.ʁɛ/	modulerions /mɔ.dy.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	moduleriez /mɔ.dy.lə.ʁje/	moduleraient /mɔ.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	module /mɔ.dyl/	modules /mɔ.dyl/	module /mɔ.dyl/	modulions /mɔ.dy.ljɔ̃/	moduliez /mɔ.dy.lje/	modulent /mɔ.dyl/
	imperfect2	modulasse /mɔ.dy.las/	modulasses /mɔ.dy.las/	modulât /mɔ.dy.la/	modulassions /mɔ.dy.la.sjɔ̃/	modulassiez /mɔ.dy.la.sje/	modulassent /mɔ.dy.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	module /mɔ.dyl/	—	modulons /mɔ.dy.lɔ̃/	modulez /mɔ.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).

Derived terms

• démoduler

Related terms

• modulation

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

moduler

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of modulor

Swedish

Noun

moduler

1. indefinite plural of modul