mijoter

French

Etymology

From Old French musgode (“provision of food”), which has the variant Old French murjoe, from Low-Frankish musgauda, composed by "muos" (food) and "gaude" (< gelde, tropue) or "geld/gold" with reference to the yellow colour.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mi.ʒɔ.te/
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Verb

mijoter

(intransitive) to simmer
Synonym: bouillotter

Conjugation

Conjugation of mijoter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	compound	avoir + past participle
infinitive	simple	mijoter
present participle or gerund¹	simple	mijotant /mi.ʒɔ.tɑ̃/
present participle or gerund¹	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		mijoté /mi.ʒɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mijote /mi.ʒɔt/	mijotes /mi.ʒɔt/	mijote /mi.ʒɔt/	mijotons /mi.ʒɔ.tɔ̃/	mijotez /mi.ʒɔ.te/	mijotent /mi.ʒɔt/
	imperfect	mijotais /mi.ʒɔ.tɛ/	mijotais /mi.ʒɔ.tɛ/	mijotait /mi.ʒɔ.tɛ/	mijotions /mi.ʒɔ.tjɔ̃/	mijotiez /mi.ʒɔ.tje/	mijotaient /mi.ʒɔ.tɛ/
	past historic²	mijotai /mi.ʒɔ.te/	mijotas /mi.ʒɔ.ta/	mijota /mi.ʒɔ.ta/	mijotâmes /mi.ʒɔ.tam/	mijotâtes /mi.ʒɔ.tat/	mijotèrent /mi.ʒɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	mijoterai /mi.ʒɔ.tʁe/	mijoteras /mi.ʒɔ.tʁa/	mijotera /mi.ʒɔ.tʁa/	mijoterons /mi.ʒɔ.tʁɔ̃/	mijoterez /mi.ʒɔ.tʁe/	mijoteront /mi.ʒɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mijoterais /mi.ʒɔ.tʁɛ/	mijoterais /mi.ʒɔ.tʁɛ/	mijoterait /mi.ʒɔ.tʁɛ/	mijoterions /mi.ʒɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	mijoteriez /mi.ʒɔ.tə.ʁje/	mijoteraient /mi.ʒɔ.tʁɛ/
(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	mijote /mi.ʒɔt/	mijotes /mi.ʒɔt/	mijote /mi.ʒɔt/	mijotions /mi.ʒɔ.tjɔ̃/	mijotiez /mi.ʒɔ.tje/	mijotent /mi.ʒɔt/
(simple tenses)	imperfect²	mijotasse /mi.ʒɔ.tas/	mijotasses /mi.ʒɔ.tas/	mijotât /mi.ʒɔ.ta/	mijotassions /mi.ʒɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	mijotassiez /mi.ʒɔ.ta.sje/	mijotassent /mi.ʒɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
(compound tenses)	pluperfect²	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	~~nous~~	~~vous~~	–
simple		—	mijote /mi.ʒɔt/	—	mijotons /mi.ʒɔ.tɔ̃/	mijotez /mi.ʒɔ.te/	—
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).