mousser

French

Etymology

From mousse +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu.se/

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Verb

mousser

1. to foam (produce foam)

Conjugation

Conjugation of mousser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mousser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	moussant /mu.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		moussé /mu.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mousse /mus/	mousses /mus/	mousse /mus/	moussons /mu.sɔ̃/	moussez /mu.se/	moussent /mus/
	imperfect	moussais /mu.sɛ/	moussais /mu.sɛ/	moussait /mu.sɛ/	moussions /mu.sjɔ̃/	moussiez /mu.sje/	moussaient /mu.sɛ/
	past historic2	moussai /mu.se/	moussas /mu.sa/	moussa /mu.sa/	moussâmes /mu.sam/	moussâtes /mu.sat/	moussèrent /mu.sɛʁ/
	future	mousserai /mu.sʁe/	mousseras /mu.sʁa/	moussera /mu.sʁa/	mousserons /mu.sʁɔ̃/	mousserez /mu.sʁe/	mousseront /mu.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mousserais /mu.sʁɛ/	mousserais /mu.sʁɛ/	mousserait /mu.sʁɛ/	mousserions /mu.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	mousseriez /mu.sə.ʁje/	mousseraient /mu.sʁɛ/
(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	mousse /mus/	mousses /mus/	mousse /mus/	moussions /mu.sjɔ̃/	moussiez /mu.sje/	moussent /mus/
	imperfect2	moussasse /mu.sas/	moussasses /mu.sas/	moussât /mu.sa/	moussassions /mu.sa.sjɔ̃/	moussassiez /mu.sa.sje/	moussassent /mu.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mousse /mus/	—	moussons /mu.sɔ̃/	moussez /mu.se/	—
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

• mousseux

Descendants

• → Dutch: mousseren
• → German: moussieren
• → Swedish: moussera

Further reading

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