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mouveter

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French

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Etymology

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Diminutive of mouver, mouvoir.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /muv.te/
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Verb

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mouveter

  1. (uncommon, dialectal, Picardy) to budge
    • 1946, Yves Gandon, Le métier d'homme:
      Firmin souffrait d’un lumbago; il ne pouvait plus «mouveter», le pauvre !
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  2. Alternative form of moufter

Conjugation

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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.