culer

Catalan

Camp de la Indústria, 1920

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [kuˈle]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kuˈleɾ]

Adjective

culer m or f (masculine and feminine plural culers)

1. (soccer, relational) of FC Barcelona, as a player, fan, coach etc.

   Synonyms: blaugrana, barcelonista

Noun

culer m or f by sense (plural culers)

1. (obsolete) sodomite
2. (soccer) a person connected with FC Barcelona, as a player, fan, staff, coach etc.

   Synonym: barcelonista

Descendants

• → Spanish: culé

Further reading

• “culer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “culer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “culer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• culer on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.le/

• Audio:

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Verb

culer

1. to go astern, to back up

Conjugation

Conjugation of culer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	culer
	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		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
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: 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

• acculer
• enculer
• reculer

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• cruel, recul