mêler
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See also: meler
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French mesler, from Old French mesler, from Early Medieval Latin misculāre, derived from Latin miscēre.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /mɛ.le/ ~ /me.le/
Audio: (file) - Homophones: mailer, mêlé, mêlée, mêlées, mêlés, mêlez, Mellé
- Rhymes: -e
Verb
[edit]mêler
- (transitive) to mix
- 1869, Paul Verlaine, Clair de lune [Moonlight][1]:
- Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune, / Au calme clair de lune triste et beau, / Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres / Et sangloter d’extase les jets d’eau, / Les grands jets d’eau sveltes parmi les marbres.
- And their song blends with the moonlight, / With the sad and beautiful moonlight, / Which sets the birds in the trees dreaming, / And makes the fountains sob with ecstasy, / The tall slim water streams among the marble statues.
- (reflexive, followed by the preposition de) to meddle in, to interfere in, to get mixed up in
- (card games) to shuffle
Usage notes
[edit]- Mêler may take a direct object that indicates multiple things being mixed together; or, it may take a direct object that indicates a single thing being mixed into another thing, as well as an object with a preposition, such as avec (“with”), à (“to”), dans (“in, into”), parmi (“among”), de (“of”), that indicates the thing it is being mixed into.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of mêler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | mêler | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | mêlant /mɛ.lɑ̃/ or /me.lɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | mêlé /mɛ.le/ or /me.le/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | mêle /mɛl/ |
mêles /mɛl/ |
mêle /mɛl/ |
mêlons /mɛ.lɔ̃/ or /me.lɔ̃/ |
mêlez /mɛ.le/ or /me.le/ |
mêlent /mɛl/ |
imperfect | mêlais /mɛ.lɛ/ or /me.lɛ/ |
mêlais /mɛ.lɛ/ or /me.lɛ/ |
mêlait /mɛ.lɛ/ or /me.lɛ/ |
mêlions /mɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /me.ljɔ̃/ |
mêliez /mɛ.lje/ or /me.lje/ |
mêlaient /mɛ.lɛ/ or /me.lɛ/ | |
past historic2 | mêlai /mɛ.le/ or /me.le/ |
mêlas /mɛ.la/ or /me.la/ |
mêla /mɛ.la/ or /me.la/ |
mêlâmes /mɛ.lam/ or /me.lam/ |
mêlâtes /mɛ.lat/ or /me.lat/ |
mêlèrent /mɛ.lɛʁ/ or /me.lɛʁ/ | |
future | mêlerai /mɛl.ʁe/ |
mêleras /mɛl.ʁa/ |
mêlera /mɛl.ʁa/ |
mêlerons /mɛl.ʁɔ̃/ |
mêlerez /mɛl.ʁe/ |
mêleront /mɛl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | mêlerais /mɛl.ʁɛ/ |
mêlerais /mɛl.ʁɛ/ |
mêlerait /mɛl.ʁɛ/ |
mêlerions /mɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /me.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mêleriez /mɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /me.lə.ʁje/ |
mêleraient /mɛl.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 | mêle /mɛl/ |
mêles /mɛl/ |
mêle /mɛl/ |
mêlions /mɛ.ljɔ̃/ or /me.ljɔ̃/ |
mêliez /mɛ.lje/ or /me.lje/ |
mêlent /mɛl/ |
imperfect2 | mêlasse /mɛ.las/ or /me.las/ |
mêlasses /mɛ.las/ or /me.las/ |
mêlât /mɛ.la/ or /me.la/ |
mêlassions /mɛ.la.sjɔ̃/ or /me.la.sjɔ̃/ |
mêlassiez /mɛ.la.sje/ or /me.la.sje/ |
mêlassent /mɛ.las/ or /me.las/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | mêle /mɛl/ |
— | mêlons /mɛ.lɔ̃/ or /me.lɔ̃/ |
mêlez /mɛ.le/ or /me.le/ |
— | |
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). |
Synonyms
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[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “mêler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Further reading
[edit]- “mêler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French mesler, from Early Medieval Latin misculāre, derived from Latin miscēre.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]mêler (gerund mêl'lie)
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