mystifier
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editmystifier (plural mystifiers)
- A person who obscures or muddles information, making something appear to be a mystery.
- A situation that is puzzling, or mystifying
French
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editVerb
editmystifier
Conjugation
editConjugation of mystifier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | mystifier | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | mystifiant /mis.ti.fjɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | mystifié /mis.ti.fje/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | mystifie /mis.ti.fi/ |
mystifies /mis.ti.fi/ |
mystifie /mis.ti.fi/ |
mystifions /mis.ti.fjɔ̃/ |
mystifiez /mis.ti.fje/ |
mystifient /mis.ti.fi/ |
imperfect | mystifiais /mis.ti.fjɛ/ |
mystifiais /mis.ti.fjɛ/ |
mystifiait /mis.ti.fjɛ/ |
mystifiions /mis.ti.fi.jɔ̃/ |
mystifiiez /mis.ti.fi.je/ |
mystifiaient /mis.ti.fjɛ/ | |
past historic2 | mystifiai /mis.ti.fje/ |
mystifias /mis.ti.fja/ |
mystifia /mis.ti.fja/ |
mystifiâmes /mis.ti.fjam/ |
mystifiâtes /mis.ti.fjat/ |
mystifièrent /mis.ti.fjɛʁ/ | |
future | mystifierai /mis.ti.fi.ʁe/ |
mystifieras /mis.ti.fi.ʁa/ |
mystifiera /mis.ti.fi.ʁa/ |
mystifierons /mis.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/ |
mystifierez /mis.ti.fi.ʁe/ |
mystifieront /mis.ti.fi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | mystifierais /mis.ti.fi.ʁɛ/ |
mystifierais /mis.ti.fi.ʁɛ/ |
mystifierait /mis.ti.fi.ʁɛ/ |
mystifierions /mis.ti.fi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mystifieriez /mis.ti.fi.ʁje/ |
mystifieraient /mis.ti.fi.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 | mystifie /mis.ti.fi/ |
mystifies /mis.ti.fi/ |
mystifie /mis.ti.fi/ |
mystifiions /mis.ti.fi.jɔ̃/ |
mystifiiez /mis.ti.fi.je/ |
mystifient /mis.ti.fi/ |
imperfect2 | mystifiasse /mis.ti.fjas/ |
mystifiasses /mis.ti.fjas/ |
mystifiât /mis.ti.fja/ |
mystifiassions /mis.ti.fja.sjɔ̃/ |
mystifiassiez /mis.ti.fja.sje/ |
mystifiassent /mis.ti.fjas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | mystifie /mis.ti.fi/ |
— | mystifions /mis.ti.fjɔ̃/ |
mystifiez /mis.ti.fje/ |
— | |
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). |
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “mystifier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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- English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- French terms derived from Latin
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- French terms with audio pronunciation
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- French first group verbs