postuler
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔs.ty.le/
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Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin postulāre.
Verb
postuler
- (transitive, obsolete) to claim, to request, to ask for
- (transitive or intransitive) to apply for [with direct object or à or (colloquial) pour ‘a job, position, title, etc.’]
Etymology 2
Back-formation from postulat.
Verb
postuler
Conjugation
Conjugation of postuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | postuler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | postulant /pɔs.ty.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | postulé /pɔs.ty.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | postule /pɔs.tyl/ |
postules /pɔs.tyl/ |
postule /pɔs.tyl/ |
postulons /pɔs.ty.lɔ̃/ |
postulez /pɔs.ty.le/ |
postulent /pɔs.tyl/ |
| imperfect | postulais /pɔs.ty.lɛ/ |
postulais /pɔs.ty.lɛ/ |
postulait /pɔs.ty.lɛ/ |
postulions /pɔs.ty.ljɔ̃/ |
postuliez /pɔs.ty.lje/ |
postulaient /pɔs.ty.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | postulai /pɔs.ty.le/ |
postulas /pɔs.ty.la/ |
postula /pɔs.ty.la/ |
postulâmes /pɔs.ty.lam/ |
postulâtes /pɔs.ty.lat/ |
postulèrent /pɔs.ty.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | postulerai /pɔs.tyl.ʁe/ |
postuleras /pɔs.tyl.ʁa/ |
postulera /pɔs.tyl.ʁa/ |
postulerons /pɔs.tyl.ʁɔ̃/ |
postulerez /pɔs.tyl.ʁe/ |
postuleront /pɔs.tyl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | postulerais /pɔs.tyl.ʁɛ/ |
postulerais /pɔs.tyl.ʁɛ/ |
postulerait /pɔs.tyl.ʁɛ/ |
postulerions /pɔs.ty.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
postuleriez /pɔs.ty.lə.ʁje/ |
postuleraient /pɔs.tyl.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 | postule /pɔs.tyl/ |
postules /pɔs.tyl/ |
postule /pɔs.tyl/ |
postulions /pɔs.ty.ljɔ̃/ |
postuliez /pɔs.ty.lje/ |
postulent /pɔs.tyl/ |
| imperfect2 | postulasse /pɔs.ty.las/ |
postulasses /pɔs.ty.las/ |
postulât /pɔs.ty.la/ |
postulassions /pɔs.ty.la.sjɔ̃/ |
postulassiez /pɔs.ty.la.sje/ |
postulassent /pɔs.ty.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | postule /pɔs.tyl/ |
— | postulons /pɔs.ty.lɔ̃/ |
postulez /pɔs.ty.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
- “postuler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
- “postuler” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.
Latin
Verb
postuler
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of postulō
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
postuler
- imperative of postulere