méduser

French

Etymology

From Méduse (“Medusa”) +‎ -er. From Medusa's ability to turn people into stone via eye contact.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.dy.ze/

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Verb

méduser

1. (transitive) to dumbfound, stupefy

Conjugation

Conjugation of méduser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	méduser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	médusant /me.dy.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		médusé /me.dy.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	méduse /me.dyz/	méduses /me.dyz/	méduse /me.dyz/	médusons /me.dy.zɔ̃/	médusez /me.dy.ze/	médusent /me.dyz/
	imperfect	médusais /me.dy.zɛ/	médusais /me.dy.zɛ/	médusait /me.dy.zɛ/	médusions /me.dy.zjɔ̃/	médusiez /me.dy.zje/	médusaient /me.dy.zɛ/
	past historic2	médusai /me.dy.ze/	médusas /me.dy.za/	médusa /me.dy.za/	médusâmes /me.dy.zam/	médusâtes /me.dy.zat/	médusèrent /me.dy.zɛʁ/
	future	méduserai /me.dyz.ʁe/	méduseras /me.dyz.ʁa/	médusera /me.dyz.ʁa/	méduserons /me.dyz.ʁɔ̃/	méduserez /me.dyz.ʁe/	méduseront /me.dyz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	méduserais /me.dyz.ʁɛ/	méduserais /me.dyz.ʁɛ/	méduserait /me.dyz.ʁɛ/	méduserions /me.dy.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	méduseriez /me.dy.zə.ʁje/	méduseraient /me.dyz.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	méduse /me.dyz/	méduses /me.dyz/	méduse /me.dyz/	médusions /me.dy.zjɔ̃/	médusiez /me.dy.zje/	médusent /me.dyz/
	imperfect2	médusasse /me.dy.zas/	médusasses /me.dy.zas/	médusât /me.dy.za/	médusassions /me.dy.za.sjɔ̃/	médusassiez /me.dy.za.sje/	médusassent /me.dy.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	méduse /me.dyz/	—	médusons /me.dy.zɔ̃/	médusez /me.dy.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

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