immiscer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin immisceō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.mi.se/

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Verb

immiscer

1. (transitive) to involve (someone)
2. (reflexive) to interfere (dans in)

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of immiscer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	immiscer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	immisçant /i.mi.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		immiscé /i.mi.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	immisce /i.mis/	immisces /i.mis/	immisce /i.mis/	immisçons /i.mi.sɔ̃/	immiscez /i.mi.se/	immiscent /i.mis/
	imperfect	immisçais /i.mi.sɛ/	immisçais /i.mi.sɛ/	immisçait /i.mi.sɛ/	immiscions /i.mi.sjɔ̃/	immisciez /i.mi.sje/	immisçaient /i.mi.sɛ/
	past historic2	immisçai /i.mi.se/	immisças /i.mi.sa/	immisça /i.mi.sa/	immisçâmes /i.mi.sam/	immisçâtes /i.mi.sat/	immiscèrent /i.mi.sɛʁ/
	future	immiscerai /i.mi.sʁe/	immisceras /i.mi.sʁa/	immiscera /i.mi.sʁa/	immiscerons /i.mi.sʁɔ̃/	immiscerez /i.mi.sʁe/	immisceront /i.mi.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	immiscerais /i.mi.sʁɛ/	immiscerais /i.mi.sʁɛ/	immiscerait /i.mi.sʁɛ/	immiscerions /i.mi.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	immisceriez /i.mi.sə.ʁje/	immisceraient /i.mi.sʁɛ/
(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	immisce /i.mis/	immisces /i.mis/	immisce /i.mis/	immiscions /i.mi.sjɔ̃/	immisciez /i.mi.sje/	immiscent /i.mis/
	imperfect2	immisçasse /i.mi.sas/	immisçasses /i.mi.sas/	immisçât /i.mi.sa/	immisçassions /i.mi.sa.sjɔ̃/	immisçassiez /i.mi.sa.sje/	immisçassent /i.mi.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	immisce /i.mis/	—	immisçons /i.mi.sɔ̃/	immiscez /i.mi.se/	—
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).

Related terms

• immixtion

Further reading

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