trémuler

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin tremulāre, present active infinitive of tremulō, from Latin tremulus or tremō. Doublet with the inherited trembler.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʁe.my.le/
Homophones: trémulai, trémulé, trémulée, trémulées, trémulés, trémulez

Verb

trémuler

(intransitive) to tremble, to shake
(transitive) to shake

Conjugation

Conjugation of trémuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		trémuler			avoir trémulé
gerund		en trémulant			en ayant trémulé
present participle		trémulant /tʁe.my.lɑ̃/
past participle		trémulé /tʁe.my.le/
person		singular			plural
person		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	trémule /tʁe.myl/	trémules /tʁe.myl/	trémule /tʁe.myl/	trémulons /tʁe.my.lɔ̃/	trémulez /tʁe.my.le/	trémulent /tʁe.myl/
	imperfect	trémulais /tʁe.my.lɛ/	trémulais /tʁe.my.lɛ/	trémulait /tʁe.my.lɛ/	trémulions /tʁe.my.ljɔ̃/	trémuliez /tʁe.my.lje/	trémulaient /tʁe.my.lɛ/
	past historic¹	trémulai /tʁe.my.le/	trémulas /tʁe.my.la/	trémula /tʁe.my.la/	trémulâmes /tʁe.my.lam/	trémulâtes /tʁe.my.lat/	trémulèrent /tʁe.my.lɛʁ/
	future	trémulerai /tʁe.myl.ʁe/	trémuleras /tʁe.myl.ʁa/	trémulera /tʁe.myl.ʁa/	trémulerons /tʁe.myl.ʁɔ̃/	trémulerez /tʁe.myl.ʁe/	trémuleront /tʁe.myl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trémulerais /tʁe.myl.ʁɛ/	trémulerais /tʁe.myl.ʁɛ/	trémulerait /tʁe.myl.ʁɛ/	trémulerions /tʁe.my.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	trémuleriez /tʁe.my.lə.ʁje/	trémuleraient /tʁe.myl.ʁɛ/
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior¹	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	trémule /tʁe.myl/	trémules /tʁe.myl/	trémule /tʁe.myl/	trémulions /tʁe.my.ljɔ̃/	trémuliez /tʁe.my.lje/	trémulent /tʁe.myl/
simple tenses	imperfect¹	trémulasse /tʁe.my.las/	trémulasses /tʁe.my.las/	trémulât /tʁe.my.la/	trémulassions /tʁe.my.la.sjɔ̃/	trémulassiez /tʁe.my.la.sje/	trémulassent /tʁe.my.las/
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
compound tenses	pluperfect¹	Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
imperative		—	trémule /tʁe.myl/	—	trémulons /tʁe.my.lɔ̃/	trémulez /tʁe.my.le/	—
¹literary tenses