mouveter
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Diminutive of mouver, mouvoir.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]mouveter
- (uncommon, dialectal, Picardy) to budge
- 1946, Yves Gandon, Le métier d'homme:
- Firmin souffrait d’un lumbago; il ne pouvait plus «mouveter», le pauvre !
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Alternative form of moufter
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 mouvète and the third-person singular future indicative il mouvètera.
Conjugation of mouveter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | mouveter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | mouvetant /muv.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | mouveté /muv.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | mouvète /mu.vɛt/ |
mouvètes /mu.vɛt/ |
mouvète /mu.vɛt/ |
mouvetons /muv.tɔ̃/ |
mouvetez /muv.te/ |
mouvètent /mu.vɛt/ |
imperfect | mouvetais /muv.tɛ/ |
mouvetais /muv.tɛ/ |
mouvetait /muv.tɛ/ |
mouvetions /mu.və.tjɔ̃/ |
mouvetiez /mu.və.tje/ |
mouvetaient /muv.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | mouvetai /muv.te/ |
mouvetas /muv.ta/ |
mouveta /muv.ta/ |
mouvetâmes /muv.tam/ |
mouvetâtes /muv.tat/ |
mouvetèrent /muv.tɛʁ/ | |
future | mouvèterai /mu.vɛ.tʁe/ or /mu.ve.tʁe/ |
mouvèteras /mu.vɛ.tʁa/ or /mu.ve.tʁa/ |
mouvètera /mu.vɛ.tʁa/ or /mu.ve.tʁa/ |
mouvèterons /mu.vɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /mu.ve.tʁɔ̃/ |
mouvèterez /mu.vɛ.tʁe/ or /mu.ve.tʁe/ |
mouvèteront /mu.vɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /mu.ve.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | mouvèterais /mu.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mu.ve.tʁɛ/ |
mouvèterais /mu.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mu.ve.tʁɛ/ |
mouvèterait /mu.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mu.ve.tʁɛ/ |
mouvèterions /mu.vɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /mu.ve.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mouvèteriez /mu.vɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /mu.ve.tə.ʁje/ |
mouvèteraient /mu.vɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mu.ve.tʁɛ/ | |
(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 | mouvète /mu.vɛt/ |
mouvètes /mu.vɛt/ |
mouvète /mu.vɛt/ |
mouvetions /mu.və.tjɔ̃/ |
mouvetiez /mu.və.tje/ |
mouvètent /mu.vɛt/ |
imperfect2 | mouvetasse /muv.tas/ |
mouvetasses /muv.tas/ |
mouvetât /muv.ta/ |
mouvetassions /muv.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
mouvetassiez /muv.ta.sje/ |
mouvetassent /muv.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | mouvète /mu.vɛt/ |
— | mouvetons /muv.tɔ̃/ |
mouvetez /muv.te/ |
— | |
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). |