mélanger
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mélanger
Conjugation edit
This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written mélange- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.
Conjugation of mélanger (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | mélanger | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | mélangeant /me.lɑ̃.ʒɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | mélangé /me.lɑ̃.ʒe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | mélange /me.lɑ̃ʒ/ |
mélanges /me.lɑ̃ʒ/ |
mélange /me.lɑ̃ʒ/ |
mélangeons /me.lɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/ |
mélangez /me.lɑ̃.ʒe/ |
mélangent /me.lɑ̃ʒ/ |
| imperfect | mélangeais /me.lɑ̃.ʒɛ/ |
mélangeais /me.lɑ̃.ʒɛ/ |
mélangeait /me.lɑ̃.ʒɛ/ |
mélangions /me.lɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/ |
mélangiez /me.lɑ̃.ʒje/ |
mélangeaient /me.lɑ̃.ʒɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | mélangeai /me.lɑ̃.ʒe/ |
mélangeas /me.lɑ̃.ʒa/ |
mélangea /me.lɑ̃.ʒa/ |
mélangeâmes /me.lɑ̃.ʒam/ |
mélangeâtes /me.lɑ̃.ʒat/ |
mélangèrent /me.lɑ̃.ʒɛʁ/ | |
| future | mélangerai /me.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/ |
mélangeras /me.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/ |
mélangera /me.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/ |
mélangerons /me.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/ |
mélangerez /me.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/ |
mélangeront /me.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | mélangerais /me.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
mélangerais /me.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
mélangerait /me.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/ |
mélangerions /me.lɑ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mélangeriez /me.lɑ̃.ʒə.ʁje/ |
mélangeraient /me.lɑ̃ʒ.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 | mélange /me.lɑ̃ʒ/ |
mélanges /me.lɑ̃ʒ/ |
mélange /me.lɑ̃ʒ/ |
mélangions /me.lɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/ |
mélangiez /me.lɑ̃.ʒje/ |
mélangent /me.lɑ̃ʒ/ |
| imperfect2 | mélangeasse /me.lɑ̃.ʒas/ |
mélangeasses /me.lɑ̃.ʒas/ |
mélangeât /me.lɑ̃.ʒa/ |
mélangeassions /me.lɑ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/ |
mélangeassiez /me.lɑ̃.ʒa.sje/ |
mélangeassent /me.lɑ̃.ʒas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | mélange /me.lɑ̃ʒ/ |
— | mélangeons /me.lɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/ |
mélangez /me.lɑ̃.ʒe/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
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Further reading edit
- “mélanger”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.