meubler
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From meuble (“piece of furniture”) + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]meubler
- (transitive) to furnish
- 1908, Gaston Leroux, Le Mystère de la chambre jaune, 2009 ed., Wikisource, chap. 1; translated 1908 by anonymous, Margaret Jull Costa (ed.), as The Mystery of the Yellow Room, 2003 ed., Dedalus, →ISBN:
- Il faut vous dire encore, monsieur, que la «Chambre Jaune» est toute petite. Mademoiselle l’avait meublée d’un lit en fer assez large, d’une petite table, d’une table de nuit, d’une toilette et de deux chaises.
- — I must also tell you, sir, that the Yellow Room is quite small. Mademoiselle had furnished it with a fairly large iron bedstead, a small table, a night-commode, a washing-stand and two chairs.
- 1908, Gaston Leroux, Le Mystère de la chambre jaune, 2009 ed., Wikisource, chap. 1; translated 1908 by anonymous, Margaret Jull Costa (ed.), as The Mystery of the Yellow Room, 2003 ed., Dedalus, →ISBN:
- (intransitive) to break the silence
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of meubler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | meubler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | meublant /mœ.blɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | meublé /mœ.ble/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | meuble /mœbl/ |
meubles /mœbl/ |
meuble /mœbl/ |
meublons /mœ.blɔ̃/ |
meublez /mœ.ble/ |
meublent /mœbl/ |
| imperfect | meublais /mœ.blɛ/ |
meublais /mœ.blɛ/ |
meublait /mœ.blɛ/ |
meublions /mœ.bli.jɔ̃/ |
meubliez /mœ.bli.je/ |
meublaient /mœ.blɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | meublai /mœ.ble/ |
meublas /mœ.bla/ |
meubla /mœ.bla/ |
meublâmes /mœ.blam/ |
meublâtes /mœ.blat/ |
meublèrent /mœ.blɛʁ/ | |
| future | meublerai /mœ.blə.ʁe/ |
meubleras /mœ.blə.ʁa/ |
meublera /mœ.blə.ʁa/ |
meublerons /mœ.blə.ʁɔ̃/ |
meublerez /mœ.blə.ʁe/ |
meubleront /mœ.blə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | meublerais /mœ.blə.ʁɛ/ |
meublerais /mœ.blə.ʁɛ/ |
meublerait /mœ.blə.ʁɛ/ |
meublerions /mœ.blə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
meubleriez /mœ.blə.ʁje/ |
meubleraient /mœ.blə.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 | meuble /mœbl/ |
meubles /mœbl/ |
meuble /mœbl/ |
meublions /mœ.bli.jɔ̃/ |
meubliez /mœ.bli.je/ |
meublent /mœbl/ |
| imperfect2 | meublasse /mœ.blas/ |
meublasses /mœ.blas/ |
meublât /mœ.bla/ |
meublassions /mœ.bla.sjɔ̃/ |
meublassiez /mœ.bla.sje/ |
meublassent /mœ.blas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | meuble /mœbl/ |
— | meublons /mœ.blɔ̃/ |
meublez /mœ.ble/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “meubler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.