compulser

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin compulsāre (“push with force”), intensitive form of Latin compellere (“compel, impel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.pyl.se/

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Verb

compulser

1. (transitive) to consult

Conjugation

Conjugation of compulser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	compulser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	compulsant /kɔ̃.pyl.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		compulsé /kɔ̃.pyl.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	compulse /kɔ̃.pyls/	compulses /kɔ̃.pyls/	compulse /kɔ̃.pyls/	compulsons /kɔ̃.pyl.sɔ̃/	compulsez /kɔ̃.pyl.se/	compulsent /kɔ̃.pyls/
	imperfect	compulsais /kɔ̃.pyl.sɛ/	compulsais /kɔ̃.pyl.sɛ/	compulsait /kɔ̃.pyl.sɛ/	compulsions /kɔ̃.pyl.sjɔ̃/	compulsiez /kɔ̃.pyl.sje/	compulsaient /kɔ̃.pyl.sɛ/
	past historic2	compulsai /kɔ̃.pyl.se/	compulsas /kɔ̃.pyl.sa/	compulsa /kɔ̃.pyl.sa/	compulsâmes /kɔ̃.pyl.sam/	compulsâtes /kɔ̃.pyl.sat/	compulsèrent /kɔ̃.pyl.sɛʁ/
	future	compulserai /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁe/	compulseras /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁa/	compulsera /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁa/	compulserons /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁɔ̃/	compulserez /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁe/	compulseront /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	compulserais /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁɛ/	compulserais /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁɛ/	compulserait /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁɛ/	compulserions /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	compulseriez /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.ʁje/	compulseraient /kɔ̃.pyl.sə.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	compulse /kɔ̃.pyls/	compulses /kɔ̃.pyls/	compulse /kɔ̃.pyls/	compulsions /kɔ̃.pyl.sjɔ̃/	compulsiez /kɔ̃.pyl.sje/	compulsent /kɔ̃.pyls/
	imperfect2	compulsasse /kɔ̃.pyl.sas/	compulsasses /kɔ̃.pyl.sas/	compulsât /kɔ̃.pyl.sa/	compulsassions /kɔ̃.pyl.sa.sjɔ̃/	compulsassiez /kɔ̃.pyl.sa.sje/	compulsassent /kɔ̃.pyl.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	compulse /kɔ̃.pyls/	—	compulsons /kɔ̃.pyl.sɔ̃/	compulsez /kɔ̃.pyl.se/	—
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

• compulsif
• compulsion

Descendants

• → Romanian: compulsa

Further reading

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