moucher
French
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *muccāre, from mucus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mu.ʃe/
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Verb
moucher
- (transitive) to blow (someone's) nose
- (transitive, colloquial) to put someone in their place
- (reflexive) to blow one's nose
- (transitive) to snuff out (a candle etc.)
Conjugation
Conjugation of moucher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | moucher | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | mouchant /mu.ʃɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | mouché /mu.ʃe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | mouche /muʃ/ |
mouches /muʃ/ |
mouche /muʃ/ |
mouchons /mu.ʃɔ̃/ |
mouchez /mu.ʃe/ |
mouchent /muʃ/ |
| imperfect | mouchais /mu.ʃɛ/ |
mouchais /mu.ʃɛ/ |
mouchait /mu.ʃɛ/ |
mouchions /mu.ʃjɔ̃/ |
mouchiez /mu.ʃje/ |
mouchaient /mu.ʃɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | mouchai /mu.ʃe/ |
mouchas /mu.ʃa/ |
moucha /mu.ʃa/ |
mouchâmes /mu.ʃam/ |
mouchâtes /mu.ʃat/ |
mouchèrent /mu.ʃɛʁ/ | |
| future | moucherai /muʃ.ʁe/ |
moucheras /muʃ.ʁa/ |
mouchera /muʃ.ʁa/ |
moucherons /muʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
moucherez /muʃ.ʁe/ |
moucheront /muʃ.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | moucherais /muʃ.ʁɛ/ |
moucherais /muʃ.ʁɛ/ |
moucherait /muʃ.ʁɛ/ |
moucherions /mu.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
moucheriez /mu.ʃə.ʁje/ |
moucheraient /muʃ.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 | mouche /muʃ/ |
mouches /muʃ/ |
mouche /muʃ/ |
mouchions /mu.ʃjɔ̃/ |
mouchiez /mu.ʃje/ |
mouchent /muʃ/ |
| imperfect2 | mouchasse /mu.ʃas/ |
mouchasses /mu.ʃas/ |
mouchât /mu.ʃa/ |
mouchassions /mu.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
mouchassiez /mu.ʃa.sje/ |
mouchassent /mu.ʃas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | mouche /muʃ/ |
— | mouchons /mu.ʃɔ̃/ |
mouchez /mu.ʃe/ |
— | |
| 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
Further reading
- “moucher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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