ameuter

French

Etymology

From a- +‎ meute +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.mø.te/

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Verb

ameuter

1. to incite, to stir up
2. to alert

Conjugation

Conjugation of ameuter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ameuter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ameutant /a.mø.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ameuté /a.mø.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ameute /a.møt/	ameutes /a.møt/	ameute /a.møt/	ameutons /a.mø.tɔ̃/	ameutez /a.mø.te/	ameutent /a.møt/
	imperfect	ameutais /a.mø.tɛ/	ameutais /a.mø.tɛ/	ameutait /a.mø.tɛ/	ameutions /a.mø.tjɔ̃/	ameutiez /a.mø.tje/	ameutaient /a.mø.tɛ/
	past historic2	ameutai /a.mø.te/	ameutas /a.mø.ta/	ameuta /a.mø.ta/	ameutâmes /a.mø.tam/	ameutâtes /a.mø.tat/	ameutèrent /a.mø.tɛʁ/
	future	ameuterai /a.mø.tʁe/	ameuteras /a.mø.tʁa/	ameutera /a.mø.tʁa/	ameuterons /a.mø.tʁɔ̃/	ameuterez /a.mø.tʁe/	ameuteront /a.mø.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ameuterais /a.mø.tʁɛ/	ameuterais /a.mø.tʁɛ/	ameuterait /a.mø.tʁɛ/	ameuterions /a.mø.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	ameuteriez /a.mø.tə.ʁje/	ameuteraient /a.mø.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	ameute /a.møt/	ameutes /a.møt/	ameute /a.møt/	ameutions /a.mø.tjɔ̃/	ameutiez /a.mø.tje/	ameutent /a.møt/
	imperfect2	ameutasse /a.mø.tas/	ameutasses /a.mø.tas/	ameutât /a.mø.ta/	ameutassions /a.mø.ta.sjɔ̃/	ameutassiez /a.mø.ta.sje/	ameutassent /a.mø.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ameute /a.møt/	—	ameutons /a.mø.tɔ̃/	ameutez /a.mø.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: 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

• ameutable
• rameuter

Further reading

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