muscler
French
Pronunciation
Verb
muscler
- (transitive) to develop someone's muscles, to muscle up
- Il passe toutes ses journées à se muscler. ― He spends all his time building up his muscles.
Conjugation
Conjugation of muscler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | muscler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | musclant /mys.klɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | musclé /mys.kle/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | muscle /myskl/ |
muscles /myskl/ |
muscle /myskl/ |
musclons /mys.klɔ̃/ |
musclez /mys.kle/ |
musclent /myskl/ |
| imperfect | musclais /mys.klɛ/ |
musclais /mys.klɛ/ |
musclait /mys.klɛ/ |
musclions /mys.kli.jɔ̃/ |
muscliez /mys.kli.je/ |
musclaient /mys.klɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | musclai /mys.kle/ |
musclas /mys.kla/ |
muscla /mys.kla/ |
musclâmes /mys.klam/ |
musclâtes /mys.klat/ |
musclèrent /mys.klɛʁ/ | |
| future | musclerai /mys.klə.ʁe/ |
muscleras /mys.klə.ʁa/ |
musclera /mys.klə.ʁa/ |
musclerons /mys.klə.ʁɔ̃/ |
musclerez /mys.klə.ʁe/ |
muscleront /mys.klə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | musclerais /mys.klə.ʁɛ/ |
musclerais /mys.klə.ʁɛ/ |
musclerait /mys.klə.ʁɛ/ |
musclerions /mys.klə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
muscleriez /mys.klə.ʁje/ |
muscleraient /mys.klə.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 | muscle /myskl/ |
muscles /myskl/ |
muscle /myskl/ |
musclions /mys.kli.jɔ̃/ |
muscliez /mys.kli.je/ |
musclent /myskl/ |
| imperfect2 | musclasse /mys.klas/ |
musclasses /mys.klas/ |
musclât /mys.kla/ |
musclassions /mys.kla.sjɔ̃/ |
musclassiez /mys.kla.sje/ |
musclassent /mys.klas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | muscle /myskl/ |
— | musclons /mys.klɔ̃/ |
musclez /mys.kle/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “muscler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.