exceller
French
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin excellō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛk.sɛ.le/ ~ /ɛk.se.le/
- Rhymes: -e
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Verb
exceller
- to excel
Conjugation
Conjugation of exceller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | exceller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | excellant /ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃/ or /ɛk.se.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | excellé /ɛk.sɛ.le/ or /ɛk.se.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | excelle /ɛk.sɛl/ |
excelles /ɛk.sɛl/ |
excelle /ɛk.sɛl/ |
excellons /ɛk.sɛ.lɔ̃/ or /ɛk.se.lɔ̃/ |
excellez /ɛk.sɛ.le/ or /ɛk.se.le/ |
excellent /ɛk.sɛl/ |
| imperfect | excellais /ɛk.sɛ.lɛ/ or /ɛk.se.lɛ/ |
excellais /ɛk.sɛ.lɛ/ or /ɛk.se.lɛ/ |
excellait /ɛk.sɛ.lɛ/ or /ɛk.se.lɛ/ |
excellions /ɛk.sɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /ɛk.se.ljɔ̃/ |
excelliez /ɛk.sɛ.lje/ or /ɛk.se.lje/ |
excellaient /ɛk.sɛ.lɛ/ or /ɛk.se.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | excellai /ɛk.sɛ.le/ or /ɛk.se.le/ |
excellas /ɛk.sɛ.la/ or /ɛk.se.la/ |
excella /ɛk.sɛ.la/ or /ɛk.se.la/ |
excellâmes /ɛk.sɛ.lam/ or /ɛk.se.lam/ |
excellâtes /ɛk.sɛ.lat/ or /ɛk.se.lat/ |
excellèrent /ɛk.sɛ.lɛʁ/ or /ɛk.se.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | excellerai /ɛk.sɛl.ʁe/ |
excelleras /ɛk.sɛl.ʁa/ |
excellera /ɛk.sɛl.ʁa/ |
excellerons /ɛk.sɛl.ʁɔ̃/ |
excellerez /ɛk.sɛl.ʁe/ |
excelleront /ɛk.sɛl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | excellerais /ɛk.sɛl.ʁɛ/ |
excellerais /ɛk.sɛl.ʁɛ/ |
excellerait /ɛk.sɛl.ʁɛ/ |
excellerions /ɛk.sɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ɛk.se.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
excelleriez /ɛk.sɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /ɛk.se.lə.ʁje/ |
excelleraient /ɛk.sɛl.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 | excelle /ɛk.sɛl/ |
excelles /ɛk.sɛl/ |
excelle /ɛk.sɛl/ |
excellions /ɛk.sɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /ɛk.se.ljɔ̃/ |
excelliez /ɛk.sɛ.lje/ or /ɛk.se.lje/ |
excellent /ɛk.sɛl/ |
| imperfect2 | excellasse /ɛk.sɛ.las/ or /ɛk.se.las/ |
excellasses /ɛk.sɛ.las/ or /ɛk.se.las/ |
excellât /ɛk.sɛ.la/ or /ɛk.se.la/ |
excellassions /ɛk.sɛ.la.sjɔ̃/ or /ɛk.se.la.sjɔ̃/ |
excellassiez /ɛk.sɛ.la.sje/ or /ɛk.se.la.sje/ |
excellassent /ɛk.sɛ.las/ or /ɛk.se.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | excelle /ɛk.sɛl/ |
— | excellons /ɛk.sɛ.lɔ̃/ or /ɛk.se.lɔ̃/ |
excellez /ɛk.sɛ.le/ or /ɛk.se.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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “exceller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Portuguese
Verb
exceller (first-person singular present excello, first-person singular preterite excelli, past participle excellido)
- obsolete spelling of exceler
Conjugation
Conjugation of exceller (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)