pédaler
See also: pedaler
French
Pronunciation
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Verb
pédaler
- to pedal (a bicycle)
Conjugation
Conjugation of pédaler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | pédaler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | pédalant /pe.da.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | pédalé /pe.da.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | pédale /pe.dal/ |
pédales /pe.dal/ |
pédale /pe.dal/ |
pédalons /pe.da.lɔ̃/ |
pédalez /pe.da.le/ |
pédalent /pe.dal/ |
| imperfect | pédalais /pe.da.lɛ/ |
pédalais /pe.da.lɛ/ |
pédalait /pe.da.lɛ/ |
pédalions /pe.da.ljɔ̃/ |
pédaliez /pe.da.lje/ |
pédalaient /pe.da.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | pédalai /pe.da.le/ |
pédalas /pe.da.la/ |
pédala /pe.da.la/ |
pédalâmes /pe.da.lam/ |
pédalâtes /pe.da.lat/ |
pédalèrent /pe.da.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | pédalerai /pe.dal.ʁe/ |
pédaleras /pe.dal.ʁa/ |
pédalera /pe.dal.ʁa/ |
pédalerons /pe.dal.ʁɔ̃/ |
pédalerez /pe.dal.ʁe/ |
pédaleront /pe.dal.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | pédalerais /pe.dal.ʁɛ/ |
pédalerais /pe.dal.ʁɛ/ |
pédalerait /pe.dal.ʁɛ/ |
pédalerions /pe.da.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
pédaleriez /pe.da.lə.ʁje/ |
pédaleraient /pe.dal.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 | pédale /pe.dal/ |
pédales /pe.dal/ |
pédale /pe.dal/ |
pédalions /pe.da.ljɔ̃/ |
pédaliez /pe.da.lje/ |
pédalent /pe.dal/ |
| imperfect2 | pédalasse /pe.da.las/ |
pédalasses /pe.da.las/ |
pédalât /pe.da.la/ |
pédalassions /pe.da.la.sjɔ̃/ |
pédalassiez /pe.da.la.sje/ |
pédalassent /pe.da.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | pédale /pe.dal/ |
— | pédalons /pe.da.lɔ̃/ |
pédalez /pe.da.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pédaler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.