méandrer

See also: meandrer

French

Etymology

From méandre +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.ɑ̃.dʁe/

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Verb

méandrer

1. to meander (wind, turn or twist)

Conjugation

Conjugation of méandrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	méandrer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	méandrant /me.ɑ̃.dʁɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		méandré /me.ɑ̃.dʁe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	méandre /me.ɑ̃dʁ/	méandres /me.ɑ̃dʁ/	méandre /me.ɑ̃dʁ/	méandrons /me.ɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/	méandrez /me.ɑ̃.dʁe/	méandrent /me.ɑ̃dʁ/
	imperfect	méandrais /me.ɑ̃.dʁɛ/	méandrais /me.ɑ̃.dʁɛ/	méandrait /me.ɑ̃.dʁɛ/	méandrions /me.ɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	méandriez /me.ɑ̃.dʁi.je/	méandraient /me.ɑ̃.dʁɛ/
	past historic2	méandrai /me.ɑ̃.dʁe/	méandras /me.ɑ̃.dʁa/	méandra /me.ɑ̃.dʁa/	méandrâmes /me.ɑ̃.dʁam/	méandrâtes /me.ɑ̃.dʁat/	méandrèrent /me.ɑ̃.dʁɛʁ/
	future	méandrerai /me.ɑ̃.dʁə.ʁe/	méandreras /me.ɑ̃.dʁə.ʁa/	méandrera /me.ɑ̃.dʁə.ʁa/	méandrerons /me.ɑ̃.dʁə.ʁɔ̃/	méandrerez /me.ɑ̃.dʁə.ʁe/	méandreront /me.ɑ̃.dʁə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	méandrerais /me.ɑ̃.dʁə.ʁɛ/	méandrerais /me.ɑ̃.dʁə.ʁɛ/	méandrerait /me.ɑ̃.dʁə.ʁɛ/	méandrerions /me.ɑ̃.dʁə.ʁjɔ̃/	méandreriez /me.ɑ̃.dʁə.ʁje/	méandreraient /me.ɑ̃.dʁə.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	méandre /me.ɑ̃dʁ/	méandres /me.ɑ̃dʁ/	méandre /me.ɑ̃dʁ/	méandrions /me.ɑ̃.dʁi.jɔ̃/	méandriez /me.ɑ̃.dʁi.je/	méandrent /me.ɑ̃dʁ/
	imperfect2	méandrasse /me.ɑ̃.dʁas/	méandrasses /me.ɑ̃.dʁas/	méandrât /me.ɑ̃.dʁa/	méandrassions /me.ɑ̃.dʁa.sjɔ̃/	méandrassiez /me.ɑ̃.dʁa.sje/	méandrassent /me.ɑ̃.dʁas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	méandre /me.ɑ̃dʁ/	—	méandrons /me.ɑ̃.dʁɔ̃/	méandrez /me.ɑ̃.dʁe/	—
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

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