combler
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French, from Latin cumulāre. Doublet of the borrowing cumuler.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.ble/
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Verb
combler
- to fulfil, satisfy
- 2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays [Small Country]:
- Un rêve, ils en avaient eu un chacun, égoïste, et ils n’étaient pas prêts à combler les attentes de l’autre.
- Each one of them had a dream, a self-centred one, and they weren't willing to satisfy each other's expectations.
- (literal and figurative) to fill (add contents to, so it is full)
- 1640, Pierre Corneille, Horace, act 2, scene 1:
- Ce choix pouvait combler trois familles de gloire / Consacrer hautement leurs noms à la mémoire
- This choice could fill three families with glory / Consecrate in high memory their names
- to fill (to install someone)
- to counter
- (sports) to deliver
Conjugation
Conjugation of combler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | combler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | comblant /kɔ̃.blɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | comblé /kɔ̃.ble/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | comble /kɔ̃bl/ |
combles /kɔ̃bl/ |
comble /kɔ̃bl/ |
comblons /kɔ̃.blɔ̃/ |
comblez /kɔ̃.ble/ |
comblent /kɔ̃bl/ |
| imperfect | comblais /kɔ̃.blɛ/ |
comblais /kɔ̃.blɛ/ |
comblait /kɔ̃.blɛ/ |
comblions /kɔ̃.bli.jɔ̃/ |
combliez /kɔ̃.bli.je/ |
comblaient /kɔ̃.blɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | comblai /kɔ̃.ble/ |
comblas /kɔ̃.bla/ |
combla /kɔ̃.bla/ |
comblâmes /kɔ̃.blam/ |
comblâtes /kɔ̃.blat/ |
comblèrent /kɔ̃.blɛʁ/ | |
| future | comblerai /kɔ̃.blə.ʁe/ |
combleras /kɔ̃.blə.ʁa/ |
comblera /kɔ̃.blə.ʁa/ |
comblerons /kɔ̃.blə.ʁɔ̃/ |
comblerez /kɔ̃.blə.ʁe/ |
combleront /kɔ̃.blə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | comblerais /kɔ̃.blə.ʁɛ/ |
comblerais /kɔ̃.blə.ʁɛ/ |
comblerait /kɔ̃.blə.ʁɛ/ |
comblerions /kɔ̃.blə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
combleriez /kɔ̃.blə.ʁje/ |
combleraient /kɔ̃.blə.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 | comble /kɔ̃bl/ |
combles /kɔ̃bl/ |
comble /kɔ̃bl/ |
comblions /kɔ̃.bli.jɔ̃/ |
combliez /kɔ̃.bli.je/ |
comblent /kɔ̃bl/ |
| imperfect2 | comblasse /kɔ̃.blas/ |
comblasses /kɔ̃.blas/ |
comblât /kɔ̃.bla/ |
comblassions /kɔ̃.bla.sjɔ̃/ |
comblassiez /kɔ̃.bla.sje/ |
comblassent /kɔ̃.blas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | comble /kɔ̃bl/ |
— | comblons /kɔ̃.blɔ̃/ |
comblez /kɔ̃.ble/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Synonyms
Further reading
- “combler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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