gesticuler

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin gesticulor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒɛs.ti.ky.le/

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Verb

gesticuler

1. to gesticulate (make gestures)

Conjugation

Conjugation of gesticuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	gesticuler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	gesticulant /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		gesticulé /ʒɛs.ti.ky.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	gesticule /ʒɛs.ti.kyl/	gesticules /ʒɛs.ti.kyl/	gesticule /ʒɛs.ti.kyl/	gesticulons /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lɔ̃/	gesticulez /ʒɛs.ti.ky.le/	gesticulent /ʒɛs.ti.kyl/
	imperfect	gesticulais /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lɛ/	gesticulais /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lɛ/	gesticulait /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lɛ/	gesticulions /ʒɛs.ti.ky.ljɔ̃/	gesticuliez /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lje/	gesticulaient /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lɛ/
	past historic2	gesticulai /ʒɛs.ti.ky.le/	gesticulas /ʒɛs.ti.ky.la/	gesticula /ʒɛs.ti.ky.la/	gesticulâmes /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lam/	gesticulâtes /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lat/	gesticulèrent /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lɛʁ/
	future	gesticulerai /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.ʁe/	gesticuleras /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.ʁa/	gesticulera /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.ʁa/	gesticulerons /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.ʁɔ̃/	gesticulerez /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.ʁe/	gesticuleront /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	gesticulerais /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.ʁɛ/	gesticulerais /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.ʁɛ/	gesticulerait /ʒɛs.ti.kyl.ʁɛ/	gesticulerions /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	gesticuleriez /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lə.ʁje/	gesticuleraient /ʒɛs.ti.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	gesticule /ʒɛs.ti.kyl/	gesticules /ʒɛs.ti.kyl/	gesticule /ʒɛs.ti.kyl/	gesticulions /ʒɛs.ti.ky.ljɔ̃/	gesticuliez /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lje/	gesticulent /ʒɛs.ti.kyl/
	imperfect2	gesticulasse /ʒɛs.ti.ky.las/	gesticulasses /ʒɛs.ti.ky.las/	gesticulât /ʒɛs.ti.ky.la/	gesticulassions /ʒɛs.ti.ky.la.sjɔ̃/	gesticulassiez /ʒɛs.ti.ky.la.sje/	gesticulassent /ʒɛs.ti.ky.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	gesticule /ʒɛs.ti.kyl/	—	gesticulons /ʒɛs.ti.ky.lɔ̃/	gesticulez /ʒɛs.ti.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

• gesticulation

Further reading

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