maquiller

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French macquiller (“to work, do”):

• partly from Old French *makier (“to build, make”), from Frankish *makjan, *makōn or Old Dutch macōn (“to make, do”), both from Proto-West Germanic *makōn (“to build, work, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, mix, make”);
• partly from Picard maquier, makier (“to make, do”), from Middle Dutch maken (“to make, do”).

Akin to Old High German mahhōn (“to make, do”) (German machen), Old English macian (“to make, build”). More at mason, make.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ki.je/

• Audio:

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Verb

maquiller

1. to disguise, cover or apply makeup (to); to dress up, to embellish
2. to make up (a story, lie, scenario, etc.), to fabricate; to pretend

Conjugation

Conjugation of maquiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	maquiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	maquillant /ma.ki.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		maquillé /ma.ki.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	maquille /ma.kij/	maquilles /ma.kij/	maquille /ma.kij/	maquillons /ma.ki.jɔ̃/	maquillez /ma.ki.je/	maquillent /ma.kij/
	imperfect	maquillais /ma.ki.jɛ/	maquillais /ma.ki.jɛ/	maquillait /ma.ki.jɛ/	maquillions /ma.kij.jɔ̃/	maquilliez /ma.kij.je/	maquillaient /ma.ki.jɛ/
	past historic2	maquillai /ma.ki.je/	maquillas /ma.ki.ja/	maquilla /ma.ki.ja/	maquillâmes /ma.ki.jam/	maquillâtes /ma.ki.jat/	maquillèrent /ma.ki.jɛʁ/
	future	maquillerai /ma.kij.ʁe/	maquilleras /ma.kij.ʁa/	maquillera /ma.kij.ʁa/	maquillerons /ma.kij.ʁɔ̃/	maquillerez /ma.kij.ʁe/	maquilleront /ma.kij.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	maquillerais /ma.kij.ʁɛ/	maquillerais /ma.kij.ʁɛ/	maquillerait /ma.kij.ʁɛ/	maquillerions /ma.ki.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	maquilleriez /ma.ki.jə.ʁje/	maquilleraient /ma.kij.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	maquille /ma.kij/	maquilles /ma.kij/	maquille /ma.kij/	maquillions /ma.kij.jɔ̃/	maquilliez /ma.kij.je/	maquillent /ma.kij/
	imperfect2	maquillasse /ma.ki.jas/	maquillasses /ma.ki.jas/	maquillât /ma.ki.ja/	maquillassions /ma.ki.ja.sjɔ̃/	maquillassiez /ma.ki.ja.sje/	maquillassent /ma.ki.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	maquille /ma.kij/	—	maquillons /ma.ki.jɔ̃/	maquillez /ma.ki.je/	—
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).

Derived terms

• maquillage
• maquillé comme une voiture volée

Descendants

• → Catalan: maquillar
• → Dutch: maquilleren
• → Spanish: maquillar
• → Portuguese: maquilhar, maquiar (Brazil)
• → Romanian: machia

Further reading

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