culer

Catalan

Camp de la Indústria, 1920

Etymology

From cul (“bottom, butt”) ‎ -er. The football sense is from fans sitting on the walls of the first stadium in Barcelona, exposing their culs to passersby.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kuˈle]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kuˈleɾ]

Adjective

culer m or f (masculine and feminine plural culers)

1. (soccer, relational) of FC Barcelona, as a player, fan, coach etc.

   Synonyms: blaugrana, barcelonista

Noun

culer m or f by sense (plural culers)

1. (obsolete) sodomite
2. (soccer) a person connected with FC Barcelona, as a player, fan, staff, coach etc.

   Synonym: barcelonista

Descendants

• → Spanish: culé

Further reading

• “culer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “culer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “culer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• culer on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.le/

• Audio:

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Verb

culer

1. to go astern, to back up

Conjugation

Conjugation of culer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	culer
	compound	avoir past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	culant /ky.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant past participle
past participle		culé /ky.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cule /kyl/	cules /kyl/	cule /kyl/	culons /ky.lɔ̃/	culez /ky.le/	culent /kyl/
	imperfect	culais /ky.lɛ/	culais /ky.lɛ/	culait /ky.lɛ/	culions /ky.ljɔ̃/	culiez /ky.lje/	culaient /ky.lɛ/
	past historic2	culai /ky.le/	culas /ky.la/	cula /ky.la/	culâmes /ky.lam/	culâtes /ky.lat/	culèrent /ky.lɛʁ/
	future	culerai /kyl.ʁe/	culeras /kyl.ʁa/	culera /kyl.ʁa/	culerons /kyl.ʁɔ̃/	culerez /kyl.ʁe/	culeront /kyl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	culerais /kyl.ʁɛ/	culerais /kyl.ʁɛ/	culerait /kyl.ʁɛ/	culerions /ky.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	culeriez /ky.lə.ʁje/	culeraient /kyl.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	cule /kyl/	cules /kyl/	cule /kyl/	culions /ky.ljɔ̃/	culiez /ky.lje/	culent /kyl/
	imperfect2	culasse /ky.las/	culasses /ky.las/	culât /ky.la/	culassions /ky.la.sjɔ̃/	culassiez /ky.la.sje/	culassent /ky.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cule /kyl/	—	culons /ky.lɔ̃/	culez /ky.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: 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

• acculer
• enculer
• reculer

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• cruel, recul