ruisseler

French

Etymology

From ruissel- ‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɥi.sle/

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Verb

ruisseler

1. to stream, drip, pour

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il ruissèle and the third-person singular future indicative il ruissèlera.

Conjugation of ruisseler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ruisseler
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ruisselant /ʁɥi.slɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		ruisselé /ʁɥi.sle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ruissèle /ʁɥi.sɛl/	ruissèles /ʁɥi.sɛl/	ruissèle /ʁɥi.sɛl/	ruisselons /ʁɥi.slɔ̃/	ruisselez /ʁɥi.sle/	ruissèlent /ʁɥi.sɛl/
	imperfect	ruisselais /ʁɥi.slɛ/	ruisselais /ʁɥi.slɛ/	ruisselait /ʁɥi.slɛ/	ruisselions /ʁɥi.sə.ljɔ̃/	ruisseliez /ʁɥi.sə.lje/	ruisselaient /ʁɥi.slɛ/
	past historic2	ruisselai /ʁɥi.sle/	ruisselas /ʁɥi.sla/	ruissela /ʁɥi.sla/	ruisselâmes /ʁɥi.slam/	ruisselâtes /ʁɥi.slat/	ruisselèrent /ʁɥi.slɛʁ/
	future	ruissèlerai /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁe/	ruissèleras /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁa/	ruissèlera /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁa/	ruissèlerons /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁɔ̃/	ruissèlerez /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁe/	ruissèleront /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ruissèlerais /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁɛ/	ruissèlerais /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁɛ/	ruissèlerait /ʁɥi.sɛl.ʁɛ/	ruissèlerions /ʁɥi.sɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /ʁɥi.se.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	ruissèleriez /ʁɥi.sɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /ʁɥi.se.lə.ʁje/	ruissèleraient /ʁɥi.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	ruissèle /ʁɥi.sɛl/	ruissèles /ʁɥi.sɛl/	ruissèle /ʁɥi.sɛl/	ruisselions /ʁɥi.sə.ljɔ̃/	ruisseliez /ʁɥi.sə.lje/	ruissèlent /ʁɥi.sɛl/
	imperfect2	ruisselasse /ʁɥi.slas/	ruisselasses /ʁɥi.slas/	ruisselât /ʁɥi.sla/	ruisselassions /ʁɥi.sla.sjɔ̃/	ruisselassiez /ʁɥi.sla.sje/	ruisselassent /ʁɥi.slas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ruissèle /ʁɥi.sɛl/	—	ruisselons /ʁɥi.slɔ̃/	ruisselez /ʁɥi.sle/	—
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).

Derived terms

• ruisseau
• ruissellement

Further reading

• “ruisseler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.