inculper

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin inculpāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kyl.pe/

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Verb

inculper

1. (law) to charge

   Deux hommes ont été inculpés de meurtre.

   Two men have been charged with murder.

Conjugation

Conjugation of inculper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	inculper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	inculpant /ɛ̃.kyl.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		inculpé /ɛ̃.kyl.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	inculpe /ɛ̃.kylp/	inculpes /ɛ̃.kylp/	inculpe /ɛ̃.kylp/	inculpons /ɛ̃.kyl.pɔ̃/	inculpez /ɛ̃.kyl.pe/	inculpent /ɛ̃.kylp/
	imperfect	inculpais /ɛ̃.kyl.pɛ/	inculpais /ɛ̃.kyl.pɛ/	inculpait /ɛ̃.kyl.pɛ/	inculpions /ɛ̃.kyl.pjɔ̃/	inculpiez /ɛ̃.kyl.pje/	inculpaient /ɛ̃.kyl.pɛ/
	past historic2	inculpai /ɛ̃.kyl.pe/	inculpas /ɛ̃.kyl.pa/	inculpa /ɛ̃.kyl.pa/	inculpâmes /ɛ̃.kyl.pam/	inculpâtes /ɛ̃.kyl.pat/	inculpèrent /ɛ̃.kyl.pɛʁ/
	future	inculperai /ɛ̃.kyl.pə.ʁe/	inculperas /ɛ̃.kyl.pə.ʁa/	inculpera /ɛ̃.kyl.pə.ʁa/	inculperons /ɛ̃.kyl.pə.ʁɔ̃/	inculperez /ɛ̃.kyl.pə.ʁe/	inculperont /ɛ̃.kyl.pə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	inculperais /ɛ̃.kyl.pə.ʁɛ/	inculperais /ɛ̃.kyl.pə.ʁɛ/	inculperait /ɛ̃.kyl.pə.ʁɛ/	inculperions /ɛ̃.kyl.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	inculperiez /ɛ̃.kyl.pə.ʁje/	inculperaient /ɛ̃.kyl.pə.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	inculpe /ɛ̃.kylp/	inculpes /ɛ̃.kylp/	inculpe /ɛ̃.kylp/	inculpions /ɛ̃.kyl.pjɔ̃/	inculpiez /ɛ̃.kyl.pje/	inculpent /ɛ̃.kylp/
	imperfect2	inculpasse /ɛ̃.kyl.pas/	inculpasses /ɛ̃.kyl.pas/	inculpât /ɛ̃.kyl.pa/	inculpassions /ɛ̃.kyl.pa.sjɔ̃/	inculpassiez /ɛ̃.kyl.pa.sje/	inculpassent /ɛ̃.kyl.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	inculpe /ɛ̃.kylp/	—	inculpons /ɛ̃.kyl.pɔ̃/	inculpez /ɛ̃.kyl.pe/	—
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

• inculpation
• inculpé

Related terms

• disculper
• coupable

Further reading

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