pulluler

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pullulāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /py.ly.le/

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Verb

pulluler

1. (intransitive) to teem
2. (intransitive) to swarm

Conjugation

Conjugation of pulluler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	pulluler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	pullulant /py.ly.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		pullulé /py.ly.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	pullule /py.lyl/	pullules /py.lyl/	pullule /py.lyl/	pullulons /py.ly.lɔ̃/	pullulez /py.ly.le/	pullulent /py.lyl/
	imperfect	pullulais /py.ly.lɛ/	pullulais /py.ly.lɛ/	pullulait /py.ly.lɛ/	pullulions /py.ly.ljɔ̃/	pulluliez /py.ly.lje/	pullulaient /py.ly.lɛ/
	past historic2	pullulai /py.ly.le/	pullulas /py.ly.la/	pullula /py.ly.la/	pullulâmes /py.ly.lam/	pullulâtes /py.ly.lat/	pullulèrent /py.ly.lɛʁ/
	future	pullulerai /py.lyl.ʁe/	pulluleras /py.lyl.ʁa/	pullulera /py.lyl.ʁa/	pullulerons /py.lyl.ʁɔ̃/	pullulerez /py.lyl.ʁe/	pulluleront /py.lyl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	pullulerais /py.lyl.ʁɛ/	pullulerais /py.lyl.ʁɛ/	pullulerait /py.lyl.ʁɛ/	pullulerions /py.ly.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	pulluleriez /py.ly.lə.ʁje/	pulluleraient /py.lyl.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	pullule /py.lyl/	pullules /py.lyl/	pullule /py.lyl/	pullulions /py.ly.ljɔ̃/	pulluliez /py.ly.lje/	pullulent /py.lyl/
	imperfect2	pullulasse /py.ly.las/	pullulasses /py.ly.las/	pullulât /py.ly.la/	pullulassions /py.ly.la.sjɔ̃/	pullulassiez /py.ly.la.sje/	pullulassent /py.ly.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	pullule /py.lyl/	—	pullulons /py.ly.lɔ̃/	pullulez /py.ly.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

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

Latin

Verb

pulluler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of pullulō