cornemuser

French

Etymology

From cornemuse +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.nə.my.ze/

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• Homophones: cornemusai, cornemusé, cornemusée, cornemusées, cornemusés, cornemusez

Verb

cornemuser

1. to play the bagpipes

Conjugation

Conjugation of cornemuser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	cornemuser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	cornemusant /kɔʁ.nə.my.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		cornemusé /kɔʁ.nə.my.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	cornemuse /kɔʁ.nə.myz/	cornemuses /kɔʁ.nə.myz/	cornemuse /kɔʁ.nə.myz/	cornemusons /kɔʁ.nə.my.zɔ̃/	cornemusez /kɔʁ.nə.my.ze/	cornemusent /kɔʁ.nə.myz/
	imperfect	cornemusais /kɔʁ.nə.my.zɛ/	cornemusais /kɔʁ.nə.my.zɛ/	cornemusait /kɔʁ.nə.my.zɛ/	cornemusions /kɔʁ.nə.my.zjɔ̃/	cornemusiez /kɔʁ.nə.my.zje/	cornemusaient /kɔʁ.nə.my.zɛ/
	past historic2	cornemusai /kɔʁ.nə.my.ze/	cornemusas /kɔʁ.nə.my.za/	cornemusa /kɔʁ.nə.my.za/	cornemusâmes /kɔʁ.nə.my.zam/	cornemusâtes /kɔʁ.nə.my.zat/	cornemusèrent /kɔʁ.nə.my.zɛʁ/
	future	cornemuserai /kɔʁ.nə.myz.ʁe/	cornemuseras /kɔʁ.nə.myz.ʁa/	cornemusera /kɔʁ.nə.myz.ʁa/	cornemuserons /kɔʁ.nə.myz.ʁɔ̃/	cornemuserez /kɔʁ.nə.myz.ʁe/	cornemuseront /kɔʁ.nə.myz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	cornemuserais /kɔʁ.nə.myz.ʁɛ/	cornemuserais /kɔʁ.nə.myz.ʁɛ/	cornemuserait /kɔʁ.nə.myz.ʁɛ/	cornemuserions /kɔʁ.nə.my.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	cornemuseriez /kɔʁ.nə.my.zə.ʁje/	cornemuseraient /kɔʁ.nə.myz.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	cornemuse /kɔʁ.nə.myz/	cornemuses /kɔʁ.nə.myz/	cornemuse /kɔʁ.nə.myz/	cornemusions /kɔʁ.nə.my.zjɔ̃/	cornemusiez /kɔʁ.nə.my.zje/	cornemusent /kɔʁ.nə.myz/
	imperfect2	cornemusasse /kɔʁ.nə.my.zas/	cornemusasses /kɔʁ.nə.my.zas/	cornemusât /kɔʁ.nə.my.za/	cornemusassions /kɔʁ.nə.my.za.sjɔ̃/	cornemusassiez /kɔʁ.nə.my.za.sje/	cornemusassent /kɔʁ.nə.my.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	cornemuse /kɔʁ.nə.myz/	—	cornemusons /kɔʁ.nə.my.zɔ̃/	cornemusez /kɔʁ.nə.my.ze/	—
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).

Further reading

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