malmener
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]malmener
- to mistreat
- Synonym: maltraiter
- to misuse, use incorrectly
Conjugation
[edit]This verb is conjugated like parler, except the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-, as in the third-person singular present indicative il malmène and the third-person singular future indicative il malmènera.
Conjugation of malmener (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | malmener | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | malmenant /mal.mə.nɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | malmené /mal.mə.ne/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | malmène /mal.mɛn/ |
malmènes /mal.mɛn/ |
malmène /mal.mɛn/ |
malmenons /mal.mə.nɔ̃/ |
malmenez /mal.mə.ne/ |
malmènent /mal.mɛn/ |
imperfect | malmenais /mal.mə.nɛ/ |
malmenais /mal.mə.nɛ/ |
malmenait /mal.mə.nɛ/ |
malmenions /mal.mə.njɔ̃/ |
malmeniez /mal.mə.nje/ |
malmenaient /mal.mə.nɛ/ | |
past historic2 | malmenai /mal.mə.ne/ |
malmenas /mal.mə.na/ |
malmena /mal.mə.na/ |
malmenâmes /mal.mə.nam/ |
malmenâtes /mal.mə.nat/ |
malmenèrent /mal.mə.nɛʁ/ | |
future | malmènerai /mal.mɛn.ʁe/ |
malmèneras /mal.mɛn.ʁa/ |
malmènera /mal.mɛn.ʁa/ |
malmènerons /mal.mɛn.ʁɔ̃/ |
malmènerez /mal.mɛn.ʁe/ |
malmèneront /mal.mɛn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | malmènerais /mal.mɛn.ʁɛ/ |
malmènerais /mal.mɛn.ʁɛ/ |
malmènerait /mal.mɛn.ʁɛ/ |
malmènerions /mal.mɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /mal.me.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
malmèneriez /mal.mɛ.nə.ʁje/ or /mal.me.nə.ʁje/ |
malmèneraient /mal.mɛn.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 | malmène /mal.mɛn/ |
malmènes /mal.mɛn/ |
malmène /mal.mɛn/ |
malmenions /mal.mə.njɔ̃/ |
malmeniez /mal.mə.nje/ |
malmènent /mal.mɛn/ |
imperfect2 | malmenasse /mal.mə.nas/ |
malmenasses /mal.mə.nas/ |
malmenât /mal.mə.na/ |
malmenassions /mal.mə.na.sjɔ̃/ |
malmenassiez /mal.mə.na.sje/ |
malmenassent /mal.mə.nas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | malmène /mal.mɛn/ |
— | malmenons /mal.mə.nɔ̃/ |
malmenez /mal.mə.ne/ |
— | |
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). |
Further reading
[edit]- “malmener”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.