mêler
See also: meler
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French mesler, from Old French mesler, from Early Medieval Latin misculāre, derived from Latin miscēre.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /mɛ.le/, /me.le/
Audio (file) - Homophones: mailer, mêlé, mêlée, mêlées, mêlés, mêlez, Mellé
- Rhymes: -e
Verb edit
mêler
- (transitive) to mix
- 1869, Paul Verlaine, Clair de lune [Moonlight][1]:
- Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune, / Au calme clair de lune triste et beau, / Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres / Et sangloter d’extase les jets d’eau, / Les grands jets d’eau sveltes parmi les marbres.
- And their song blends with the moonlight, / With the sad and beautiful moonlight, / Which sets the birds in the trees dreaming, / And makes the fountains sob with ecstasy, / The tall slim water streams among the marble statues.
- (reflexive, followed by the preposition de) to meddle in, to interfere in, to get mixed up in
- (card games) to shuffle
Usage notes edit
- Mêler may take a direct object that indicates multiple things being mixed together; or, it may take a direct object that indicates a single thing being mixed into another thing, as well as an object with a preposition, such as avec (“with”), à (“to”), dans (“in, into”), parmi (“among”), de (“of”), that indicates the thing it is being mixed into.
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of mêler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | mêler | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | mêlant /mɛ.lɑ̃/ or /me.lɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | mêlé /mɛ.le/ or /me.le/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | mêle /mɛl/ |
mêles /mɛl/ |
mêle /mɛl/ |
mêlons /mɛ.lɔ̃/ or /me.lɔ̃/ |
mêlez /mɛ.le/ or /me.le/ |
mêlent /mɛl/ |
imperfect | mêlais /mɛ.lɛ/ or /me.lɛ/ |
mêlais /mɛ.lɛ/ or /me.lɛ/ |
mêlait /mɛ.lɛ/ or /me.lɛ/ |
mêlions /mɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /me.ljɔ̃/ |
mêliez /mɛ.lje/ or /me.lje/ |
mêlaient /mɛ.lɛ/ or /me.lɛ/ | |
past historic2 | mêlai /mɛ.le/ or /me.le/ |
mêlas /mɛ.la/ or /me.la/ |
mêla /mɛ.la/ or /me.la/ |
mêlâmes /mɛ.lam/ or /me.lam/ |
mêlâtes /mɛ.lat/ or /me.lat/ |
mêlèrent /mɛ.lɛʁ/ or /me.lɛʁ/ | |
future | mêlerai /mɛl.ʁe/ |
mêleras /mɛl.ʁa/ |
mêlera /mɛl.ʁa/ |
mêlerons /mɛl.ʁɔ̃/ |
mêlerez /mɛl.ʁe/ |
mêleront /mɛl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | mêlerais /mɛl.ʁɛ/ |
mêlerais /mɛl.ʁɛ/ |
mêlerait /mɛl.ʁɛ/ |
mêlerions /mɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /me.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mêleriez /mɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /me.lə.ʁje/ |
mêleraient /mɛl.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 | mêle /mɛl/ |
mêles /mɛl/ |
mêle /mɛl/ |
mêlions /mɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /me.ljɔ̃/ |
mêliez /mɛ.lje/ or /me.lje/ |
mêlent /mɛl/ |
imperfect2 | mêlasse /mɛ.las/ or /me.las/ |
mêlasses /mɛ.las/ or /me.las/ |
mêlât /mɛ.la/ or /me.la/ |
mêlassions /mɛ.la.sjɔ̃/ or /me.la.sjɔ̃/ |
mêlassiez /mɛ.la.sje/ or /me.la.sje/ |
mêlassent /mɛ.las/ or /me.las/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | mêle /mɛl/ |
— | mêlons /mɛ.lɔ̃/ or /me.lɔ̃/ |
mêlez /mɛ.le/ or /me.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 [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
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Descendants edit
- → Dutch: mêleren
References edit
- “mêler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading edit
- “mêler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French mesler, from Old French mesler, from Early Medieval Latin misculāre, derived from Latin miscēre.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Jersey) (file)
Verb edit
mêler (gerund mêl'lie)