onduler

French

Etymology

Back-formation from ondulation; corresponds to a Medieval or later Latin undulo, undulare, from Late Latin undula, a diminutive of Latin unda (whence French onde).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̃.dy.le/

• onduler

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Verb

onduler

1. to undulate, to ripple, to wave

   Synonym: ondoyer

Conjugation

Conjugation of onduler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	onduler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ondulant /ɔ̃.dy.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ondulé /ɔ̃.dy.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ondule /ɔ̃.dyl/	ondules /ɔ̃.dyl/	ondule /ɔ̃.dyl/	ondulons /ɔ̃.dy.lɔ̃/	ondulez /ɔ̃.dy.le/	ondulent /ɔ̃.dyl/
	imperfect	ondulais /ɔ̃.dy.lɛ/	ondulais /ɔ̃.dy.lɛ/	ondulait /ɔ̃.dy.lɛ/	ondulions /ɔ̃.dy.ljɔ̃/	onduliez /ɔ̃.dy.lje/	ondulaient /ɔ̃.dy.lɛ/
	past historic2	ondulai /ɔ̃.dy.le/	ondulas /ɔ̃.dy.la/	ondula /ɔ̃.dy.la/	ondulâmes /ɔ̃.dy.lam/	ondulâtes /ɔ̃.dy.lat/	ondulèrent /ɔ̃.dy.lɛʁ/
	future	ondulerai /ɔ̃.dyl.ʁe/	onduleras /ɔ̃.dyl.ʁa/	ondulera /ɔ̃.dyl.ʁa/	ondulerons /ɔ̃.dyl.ʁɔ̃/	ondulerez /ɔ̃.dyl.ʁe/	onduleront /ɔ̃.dyl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ondulerais /ɔ̃.dyl.ʁɛ/	ondulerais /ɔ̃.dyl.ʁɛ/	ondulerait /ɔ̃.dyl.ʁɛ/	ondulerions /ɔ̃.dy.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	onduleriez /ɔ̃.dy.lə.ʁje/	onduleraient /ɔ̃.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	ondule /ɔ̃.dyl/	ondules /ɔ̃.dyl/	ondule /ɔ̃.dyl/	ondulions /ɔ̃.dy.ljɔ̃/	onduliez /ɔ̃.dy.lje/	ondulent /ɔ̃.dyl/
	imperfect2	ondulasse /ɔ̃.dy.las/	ondulasses /ɔ̃.dy.las/	ondulât /ɔ̃.dy.la/	ondulassions /ɔ̃.dy.la.sjɔ̃/	ondulassiez /ɔ̃.dy.la.sje/	ondulassent /ɔ̃.dy.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ondule /ɔ̃.dyl/	—	ondulons /ɔ̃.dy.lɔ̃/	ondulez /ɔ̃.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).

Related terms

• ondulation
• onde

Further reading

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