moucheter
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French moucheter. By surface analysis, mouche + -eter.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
moucheter
- to fleck
Conjugation edit
With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.
Conjugation of moucheter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | moucheter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | mouchetant /muʃ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | moucheté /muʃ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | mouchette or mouchète /mu.ʃɛt/ |
mouchettes or mouchètes /mu.ʃɛt/ |
mouchette or mouchète /mu.ʃɛt/ |
mouchetons /muʃ.tɔ̃/ |
mouchetez /muʃ.te/ |
mouchettent or mouchètent /mu.ʃɛt/ |
| imperfect | mouchetais /muʃ.tɛ/ |
mouchetais /muʃ.tɛ/ |
mouchetait /muʃ.tɛ/ |
mouchetions /mu.ʃə.tjɔ̃/ |
mouchetiez /mu.ʃə.tje/ |
mouchetaient /muʃ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | mouchetai /muʃ.te/ |
mouchetas /muʃ.ta/ |
moucheta /muʃ.ta/ |
mouchetâmes /muʃ.tam/ |
mouchetâtes /muʃ.tat/ |
mouchetèrent /muʃ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | mouchetterai or mouchèterai /mu.ʃɛ.tʁe/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁe/ |
mouchetteras or mouchèteras /mu.ʃɛ.tʁa/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁa/ |
mouchettera or mouchètera /mu.ʃɛ.tʁa/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁa/ |
mouchetterons or mouchèterons /mu.ʃɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁɔ̃/ |
mouchetterez or mouchèterez /mu.ʃɛ.tʁe/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁe/ |
mouchetteront or mouchèteront /mu.ʃɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | mouchetterais or mouchèterais /mu.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁɛ/ |
mouchetterais or mouchèterais /mu.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁɛ/ |
mouchetterait or mouchèterait /mu.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁɛ/ |
mouchetterions or mouchèterions /mu.ʃɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /mu.ʃe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mouchetteriez or mouchèteriez /mu.ʃɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /mu.ʃe.tə.ʁje/ |
mouchetteraient or mouchèteraient /mu.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | mouchette or mouchète /mu.ʃɛt/ |
mouchettes or mouchètes /mu.ʃɛt/ |
mouchette or mouchète /mu.ʃɛt/ |
mouchetions /mu.ʃə.tjɔ̃/ |
mouchetiez /mu.ʃə.tje/ |
mouchettent or mouchètent /mu.ʃɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | mouchetasse /muʃ.tas/ |
mouchetasses /muʃ.tas/ |
mouchetât /muʃ.ta/ |
mouchetassions /muʃ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
mouchetassiez /muʃ.ta.sje/ |
mouchetassent /muʃ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | mouchette or mouchète /mu.ʃɛt/ |
— | mouchetons /muʃ.tɔ̃/ |
mouchetez /muʃ.te/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading edit
- “moucheter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.