moufter

French

Alternative forms

• mouveter, moufeter, mouffeter

Etymology

From mouveter, derived from mouvoir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muf.te/

• Audio:

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Verb

moufter

1. (colloquial, intransitive, chiefly in the negative) to protest, complain

Conjugation

Conjugation of moufter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	moufter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mouftant /muf.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		moufté /muf.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	moufte /muft/	mouftes /muft/	moufte /muft/	mouftons /muf.tɔ̃/	mouftez /muf.te/	mouftent /muft/
	imperfect	mouftais /muf.tɛ/	mouftais /muf.tɛ/	mouftait /muf.tɛ/	mouftions /muf.tjɔ̃/	mouftiez /muf.tje/	mouftaient /muf.tɛ/
	past historic2	mouftai /muf.te/	mouftas /muf.ta/	moufta /muf.ta/	mouftâmes /muf.tam/	mouftâtes /muf.tat/	mouftèrent /muf.tɛʁ/
	future	moufterai /muf.tə.ʁe/	moufteras /muf.tə.ʁa/	mouftera /muf.tə.ʁa/	moufterons /muf.tə.ʁɔ̃/	moufterez /muf.tə.ʁe/	moufteront /muf.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	moufterais /muf.tə.ʁɛ/	moufterais /muf.tə.ʁɛ/	moufterait /muf.tə.ʁɛ/	moufterions /muf.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	moufteriez /muf.tə.ʁje/	moufteraient /muf.tə.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	moufte /muft/	mouftes /muft/	moufte /muft/	mouftions /muf.tjɔ̃/	mouftiez /muf.tje/	mouftent /muft/
	imperfect2	mouftasse /muf.tas/	mouftasses /muf.tas/	mouftât /muf.ta/	mouftassions /muf.ta.sjɔ̃/	mouftassiez /muf.ta.sje/	mouftassent /muf.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	moufte /muft/	—	mouftons /muf.tɔ̃/	mouftez /muf.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).

Further reading

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