ovuler

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.vy.le/

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Verb

ovuler

1. to ovulate

Conjugation

Conjugation of ovuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ovuler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ovulant /ɔ.vy.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ovulé /ɔ.vy.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ovule /ɔ.vyl/	ovules /ɔ.vyl/	ovule /ɔ.vyl/	ovulons /ɔ.vy.lɔ̃/	ovulez /ɔ.vy.le/	ovulent /ɔ.vyl/
	imperfect	ovulais /ɔ.vy.lɛ/	ovulais /ɔ.vy.lɛ/	ovulait /ɔ.vy.lɛ/	ovulions /ɔ.vy.ljɔ̃/	ovuliez /ɔ.vy.lje/	ovulaient /ɔ.vy.lɛ/
	past historic2	ovulai /ɔ.vy.le/	ovulas /ɔ.vy.la/	ovula /ɔ.vy.la/	ovulâmes /ɔ.vy.lam/	ovulâtes /ɔ.vy.lat/	ovulèrent /ɔ.vy.lɛʁ/
	future	ovulerai /ɔ.vyl.ʁe/	ovuleras /ɔ.vyl.ʁa/	ovulera /ɔ.vyl.ʁa/	ovulerons /ɔ.vyl.ʁɔ̃/	ovulerez /ɔ.vyl.ʁe/	ovuleront /ɔ.vyl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ovulerais /ɔ.vyl.ʁɛ/	ovulerais /ɔ.vyl.ʁɛ/	ovulerait /ɔ.vyl.ʁɛ/	ovulerions /ɔ.vy.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	ovuleriez /ɔ.vy.lə.ʁje/	ovuleraient /ɔ.vyl.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	ovule /ɔ.vyl/	ovules /ɔ.vyl/	ovule /ɔ.vyl/	ovulions /ɔ.vy.ljɔ̃/	ovuliez /ɔ.vy.lje/	ovulent /ɔ.vyl/
	imperfect2	ovulasse /ɔ.vy.las/	ovulasses /ɔ.vy.las/	ovulât /ɔ.vy.la/	ovulassions /ɔ.vy.la.sjɔ̃/	ovulassiez /ɔ.vy.la.sje/	ovulassent /ɔ.vy.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ovule /ɔ.vyl/	—	ovulons /ɔ.vy.lɔ̃/	ovulez /ɔ.vy.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).