mendier

French

Etymology

From Latin mendīcāre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.dje/

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Verb

mendier

1. to beg (plead for money or goods)

   Synonym: faire la manche

Conjugation

Conjugation of mendier (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mendier
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mendiant /mɑ̃.djɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		mendié /mɑ̃.dje/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mendie /mɑ̃.di/	mendies /mɑ̃.di/	mendie /mɑ̃.di/	mendions /mɑ̃.djɔ̃/	mendiez /mɑ̃.dje/	mendient /mɑ̃.di/
	imperfect	mendiais /mɑ̃.djɛ/	mendiais /mɑ̃.djɛ/	mendiait /mɑ̃.djɛ/	mendiions /mɑ̃.di.jɔ̃/	mendiiez /mɑ̃.di.je/	mendiaient /mɑ̃.djɛ/
	past historic2	mendiai /mɑ̃.dje/	mendias /mɑ̃.dja/	mendia /mɑ̃.dja/	mendiâmes /mɑ̃.djam/	mendiâtes /mɑ̃.djat/	mendièrent /mɑ̃.djɛʁ/
	future	mendierai /mɑ̃.di.ʁe/	mendieras /mɑ̃.di.ʁa/	mendiera /mɑ̃.di.ʁa/	mendierons /mɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/	mendierez /mɑ̃.di.ʁe/	mendieront /mɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mendierais /mɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/	mendierais /mɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/	mendierait /mɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/	mendierions /mɑ̃.di.ʁjɔ̃/	mendieriez /mɑ̃.di.ʁje/	mendieraient /mɑ̃.di.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	mendie /mɑ̃.di/	mendies /mɑ̃.di/	mendie /mɑ̃.di/	mendiions /mɑ̃.di.jɔ̃/	mendiiez /mɑ̃.di.je/	mendient /mɑ̃.di/
	imperfect2	mendiasse /mɑ̃.djas/	mendiasses /mɑ̃.djas/	mendiât /mɑ̃.dja/	mendiassions /mɑ̃.dja.sjɔ̃/	mendiassiez /mɑ̃.dja.sje/	mendiassent /mɑ̃.djas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mendie /mɑ̃.di/	—	mendions /mɑ̃.djɔ̃/	mendiez /mɑ̃.dje/	—
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).

Related terms

• mendiant
• mendigot

Further reading

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