coulisser

French

Etymology

From coulisse +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku.li.se/

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Verb

coulisser

1. (intransitive) to slide

Conjugation

Conjugation of coulisser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	coulisser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	coulissant /ku.li.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		coulissé /ku.li.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	coulisse /ku.lis/	coulisses /ku.lis/	coulisse /ku.lis/	coulissons /ku.li.sɔ̃/	coulissez /ku.li.se/	coulissent /ku.lis/
	imperfect	coulissais /ku.li.sɛ/	coulissais /ku.li.sɛ/	coulissait /ku.li.sɛ/	coulissions /ku.li.sjɔ̃/	coulissiez /ku.li.sje/	coulissaient /ku.li.sɛ/
	past historic2	coulissai /ku.li.se/	coulissas /ku.li.sa/	coulissa /ku.li.sa/	coulissâmes /ku.li.sam/	coulissâtes /ku.li.sat/	coulissèrent /ku.li.sɛʁ/
	future	coulisserai /ku.li.sʁe/	coulisseras /ku.li.sʁa/	coulissera /ku.li.sʁa/	coulisserons /ku.li.sʁɔ̃/	coulisserez /ku.li.sʁe/	coulisseront /ku.li.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	coulisserais /ku.li.sʁɛ/	coulisserais /ku.li.sʁɛ/	coulisserait /ku.li.sʁɛ/	coulisserions /ku.li.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	coulisseriez /ku.li.sə.ʁje/	coulisseraient /ku.li.sʁɛ/
(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	coulisse /ku.lis/	coulisses /ku.lis/	coulisse /ku.lis/	coulissions /ku.li.sjɔ̃/	coulissiez /ku.li.sje/	coulissent /ku.lis/
	imperfect2	coulissasse /ku.li.sas/	coulissasses /ku.li.sas/	coulissât /ku.li.sa/	coulissassions /ku.li.sa.sjɔ̃/	coulissassiez /ku.li.sa.sje/	coulissassent /ku.li.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	coulisse /ku.lis/	—	coulissons /ku.li.sɔ̃/	coulissez /ku.li.se/	—
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

• coulissant

Further reading

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