postuler

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin postulāre.

Verb

postuler

1. (transitive, obsolete) to claim, to request, to ask for
2. (transitive or intransitive) to apply for [with direct object or à or (colloquial) pour ‘a job, position, title, etc.’]

Etymology 2

Back-formation from postulat.

Verb

postuler

1. to postulate (assume as true)
2. to posit

Conjugation

Conjugation of postuler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	postuler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	postulant /pɔs.ty.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		postulé /pɔs.ty.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	postule /pɔs.tyl/	postules /pɔs.tyl/	postule /pɔs.tyl/	postulons /pɔs.ty.lɔ̃/	postulez /pɔs.ty.le/	postulent /pɔs.tyl/
	imperfect	postulais /pɔs.ty.lɛ/	postulais /pɔs.ty.lɛ/	postulait /pɔs.ty.lɛ/	postulions /pɔs.ty.ljɔ̃/	postuliez /pɔs.ty.lje/	postulaient /pɔs.ty.lɛ/
	past historic2	postulai /pɔs.ty.le/	postulas /pɔs.ty.la/	postula /pɔs.ty.la/	postulâmes /pɔs.ty.lam/	postulâtes /pɔs.ty.lat/	postulèrent /pɔs.ty.lɛʁ/
	future	postulerai /pɔs.tyl.ʁe/	postuleras /pɔs.tyl.ʁa/	postulera /pɔs.tyl.ʁa/	postulerons /pɔs.tyl.ʁɔ̃/	postulerez /pɔs.tyl.ʁe/	postuleront /pɔs.tyl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	postulerais /pɔs.tyl.ʁɛ/	postulerais /pɔs.tyl.ʁɛ/	postulerait /pɔs.tyl.ʁɛ/	postulerions /pɔs.ty.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	postuleriez /pɔs.ty.lə.ʁje/	postuleraient /pɔs.tyl.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	postule /pɔs.tyl/	postules /pɔs.tyl/	postule /pɔs.tyl/	postulions /pɔs.ty.ljɔ̃/	postuliez /pɔs.ty.lje/	postulent /pɔs.tyl/
	imperfect2	postulasse /pɔs.ty.las/	postulasses /pɔs.ty.las/	postulât /pɔs.ty.la/	postulassions /pɔs.ty.la.sjɔ̃/	postulassiez /pɔs.ty.la.sje/	postulassent /pɔs.ty.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	postule /pɔs.tyl/	—	postulons /pɔs.ty.lɔ̃/	postulez /pɔs.ty.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).

Related terms

• poste

Further reading

• “postuler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “postuler” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.

Latin

Verb

postuler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of postulō

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

postuler

1. imperative of postulere