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simuler

imperative of simulere

Learned borrowing from Latin simulāre (“to imitate, to feign”). Doublet of sembler.

IPA^(key): /si.my.le/

simuler

(transitive) to feign, to fake, to put on, to pretend to have
(intransitive, sports) to dive (to pretend to be fouled in order to gain an advantage)
(intransitive, sex) to fake it (to feign to be enjoying sex; to pretend to have an orgasm)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	simuler
present participle or gerund¹	simple	simulant /si.my.lɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		simulé /si.my.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	simule /si.myl/	simules /si.myl/	simule /si.myl/	simulons /si.my.lɔ̃/	simulez /si.my.le/	simulent /si.myl/
	imperfect	simulais /si.my.lɛ/	simulais /si.my.lɛ/	simulait /si.my.lɛ/	simulions /si.my.ljɔ̃/	simuliez /si.my.lje/	simulaient /si.my.lɛ/
	past historic²	simulai /si.my.le/	simulas /si.my.la/	simula /si.my.la/	simulâmes /si.my.lam/	simulâtes /si.my.lat/	simulèrent /si.my.lɛʁ/
	future	simulerai /si.myl.ʁe/	simuleras /si.myl.ʁa/	simulera /si.myl.ʁa/	simulerons /si.myl.ʁɔ̃/	simulerez /si.myl.ʁe/	simuleront /si.myl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	simulerais /si.myl.ʁɛ/	simulerais /si.myl.ʁɛ/	simulerait /si.myl.ʁɛ/	simulerions /si.my.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	simuleriez /si.my.lə.ʁje/	simuleraient /si.myl.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	simule /si.myl/	simules /si.myl/	simule /si.myl/	simulions /si.my.ljɔ̃/	simuliez /si.my.lje/	simulent /si.myl/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	simulasse /si.my.las/	simulasses /si.my.las/	simulât /si.my.la/	simulassions /si.my.la.sjɔ̃/	simulassiez /si.my.la.sje/	simulassent /si.my.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	simule /si.myl/	—	simulons /si.my.lɔ̃/	simulez /si.my.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).

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

simuler

first-person singular present passive subjunctive of simulō

simuler

imperative of simulere