osciller
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin oscillāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ.si.le/, (proscribed but common) /ɔ.si.je/
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Verb
osciller
Conjugation
Conjugation of osciller (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | osciller | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | oscillant /ɔ.si.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | oscillé /ɔ.si.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | oscille /ɔ.sil/ |
oscilles /ɔ.sil/ |
oscille /ɔ.sil/ |
oscillons /ɔ.si.lɔ̃/ |
oscillez /ɔ.si.le/ |
oscillent /ɔ.sil/ |
| imperfect | oscillais /ɔ.si.lɛ/ |
oscillais /ɔ.si.lɛ/ |
oscillait /ɔ.si.lɛ/ |
oscillions /ɔ.si.ljɔ̃/ |
oscilliez /ɔ.si.lje/ |
oscillaient /ɔ.si.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | oscillai /ɔ.si.le/ |
oscillas /ɔ.si.la/ |
oscilla /ɔ.si.la/ |
oscillâmes /ɔ.si.lam/ |
oscillâtes /ɔ.si.lat/ |
oscillèrent /ɔ.si.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | oscillerai /ɔ.sil.ʁe/ |
oscilleras /ɔ.sil.ʁa/ |
oscillera /ɔ.sil.ʁa/ |
oscillerons /ɔ.sil.ʁɔ̃/ |
oscillerez /ɔ.sil.ʁe/ |
oscilleront /ɔ.sil.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | oscillerais /ɔ.sil.ʁɛ/ |
oscillerais /ɔ.sil.ʁɛ/ |
oscillerait /ɔ.sil.ʁɛ/ |
oscillerions /ɔ.si.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
oscilleriez /ɔ.si.lə.ʁje/ |
oscilleraient /ɔ.sil.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 | oscille /ɔ.sil/ |
oscilles /ɔ.sil/ |
oscille /ɔ.sil/ |
oscillions /ɔ.si.ljɔ̃/ |
oscilliez /ɔ.si.lje/ |
oscillent /ɔ.sil/ |
| imperfect2 | oscillasse /ɔ.si.las/ |
oscillasses /ɔ.si.las/ |
oscillât /ɔ.si.la/ |
oscillassions /ɔ.si.la.sjɔ̃/ |
oscillassiez /ɔ.si.la.sje/ |
oscillassent /ɔ.si.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | oscille /ɔ.sil/ |
— | oscillons /ɔ.si.lɔ̃/ |
oscillez /ɔ.si.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
- “osciller”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012