muscler

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mys.kle/
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Verb

muscler

  1. (transitive) to develop someone's muscles, to muscle up
    Il passe toutes ses journées à se muscler. ― He spends all his time building up his muscles.

Conjugation
Conjugation of muscler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple muscler
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple musclant
/mys.klɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle musclé
/mys.kle/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present muscle
/myskl/		 muscles
/myskl/		 muscle
/myskl/		 musclons
/mys.klɔ̃/		 musclez
/mys.kle/		 musclent
/myskl/
imperfect musclais
/mys.klɛ/		 musclais
/mys.klɛ/		 musclait
/mys.klɛ/		 musclions
/mys.kli.jɔ̃/		 muscliez
/mys.kli.je/		 musclaient
/mys.klɛ/
past historic2 musclai
/mys.kle/		 musclas
/mys.kla/		 muscla
/mys.kla/		 musclâmes
/mys.klam/		 musclâtes
/mys.klat/		 musclèrent
/mys.klɛʁ/
future musclerai
/mys.klə.ʁe/		 muscleras
/mys.klə.ʁa/		 musclera
/mys.klə.ʁa/		 musclerons
/mys.klə.ʁɔ̃/		 musclerez
/mys.klə.ʁe/		 muscleront
/mys.klə.ʁɔ̃/
conditional musclerais
/mys.klə.ʁɛ/		 musclerais
/mys.klə.ʁɛ/		 musclerait
/mys.klə.ʁɛ/		 musclerions
/mys.klə.ʁjɔ̃/		 muscleriez
/mys.klə.ʁje/		 muscleraient
/mys.klə.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 muscle
/myskl/		 muscles
/myskl/		 muscle
/myskl/		 musclions
/mys.kli.jɔ̃/		 muscliez
/mys.kli.je/		 musclent
/myskl/
imperfect2 musclasse
/mys.klas/		 musclasses
/mys.klas/		 musclât
/mys.kla/		 musclassions
/mys.kla.sjɔ̃/		 musclassiez
/mys.kla.sje/		 musclassent
/mys.klas/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — muscle
/myskl/		 — musclons
/mys.klɔ̃/		 musclez
/mys.kle/		 —
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:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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