muter

English

muter (plural muters)

Something that mutes sound.
The violinist often uses a muter when she practices.

Borrowed from Latin mūtāre, present active infinitive of mūtō. Compare the inherited doublet muer.

muter

Conjugation of muter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		muter			avoir muté
gerund		en mutant			en ayant muté
present participle		mutant
past participle		muté
person		singular			plural
person		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	mute	mutes	mute	mutons	mutez	mutent
	imperfect	mutais	mutais	mutait	mutions	mutiez	mutaient
	past historic¹	mutai	mutas	muta	mutâmes	mutâtes	mutèrent
	future	muterai	muteras	mutera	muterons	muterez	muteront
	conditional	muterais	muterais	muterait	muterions	muteriez	muteraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior¹	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	mute	mutes	mute	mutions	mutiez	mutent
simple tenses	imperfect¹	mutasse	mutasses	mutât	mutassions	mutassiez	mutassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
compound tenses	pluperfect¹	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
imperative		—	mute	—	mutons	mutez	—
¹literary tenses