menuiser

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French menusier, from Vulgar Latin *minūtiāre, from Latin minūtus (whence French menu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mə.nɥi.ze/

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Verb

menuiser

1. to do craftwork or small handiwork

Conjugation

Conjugation of menuiser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	menuiser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	menuisant /mə.nɥi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		menuisé /mə.nɥi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	menuise /mə.nɥiz/	menuises /mə.nɥiz/	menuise /mə.nɥiz/	menuisons /mə.nɥi.zɔ̃/	menuisez /mə.nɥi.ze/	menuisent /mə.nɥiz/
	imperfect	menuisais /mə.nɥi.zɛ/	menuisais /mə.nɥi.zɛ/	menuisait /mə.nɥi.zɛ/	menuisions /mə.nɥi.zjɔ̃/	menuisiez /mə.nɥi.zje/	menuisaient /mə.nɥi.zɛ/
	past historic2	menuisai /mə.nɥi.ze/	menuisas /mə.nɥi.za/	menuisa /mə.nɥi.za/	menuisâmes /mə.nɥi.zam/	menuisâtes /mə.nɥi.zat/	menuisèrent /mə.nɥi.zɛʁ/
	future	menuiserai /mə.nɥiz.ʁe/	menuiseras /mə.nɥiz.ʁa/	menuisera /mə.nɥiz.ʁa/	menuiserons /mə.nɥiz.ʁɔ̃/	menuiserez /mə.nɥiz.ʁe/	menuiseront /mə.nɥiz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	menuiserais /mə.nɥiz.ʁɛ/	menuiserais /mə.nɥiz.ʁɛ/	menuiserait /mə.nɥiz.ʁɛ/	menuiserions /mə.nɥi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	menuiseriez /mə.nɥi.zə.ʁje/	menuiseraient /mə.nɥiz.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	menuise /mə.nɥiz/	menuises /mə.nɥiz/	menuise /mə.nɥiz/	menuisions /mə.nɥi.zjɔ̃/	menuisiez /mə.nɥi.zje/	menuisent /mə.nɥiz/
	imperfect2	menuisasse /mə.nɥi.zas/	menuisasses /mə.nɥi.zas/	menuisât /mə.nɥi.za/	menuisassions /mə.nɥi.za.sjɔ̃/	menuisassiez /mə.nɥi.za.sje/	menuisassent /mə.nɥi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	menuise /mə.nɥiz/	—	menuisons /mə.nɥi.zɔ̃/	menuisez /mə.nɥi.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).

Derived terms

• amenuiser
• menuiserie
• menuisier

Related terms

• menuise

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• meuniers, mineures, numérise, numérisé, réunîmes, Sumérien, sumérien