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.
culer m or f (masculine and feminine plural culers)
culer m or f by sense (plural culers)
culer
infinitive | simple | culer | |||||
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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 | – | – | – | ||||
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:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |