transmuer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trānsmūtāre (infinitive trānsmūtāre), using the conjugation of muer. Doublet of transmuter, which was remade after the Latin source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃s.mɥe/

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Verb

transmuer

1. (transitive) to transmute

   Synonym: transmuter

Conjugation

Conjugation of transmuer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	transmuer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	transmuant /tʁɑ̃s.mɥɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		transmué /tʁɑ̃s.mɥe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	transmue /tʁɑ̃s.my/	transmues /tʁɑ̃s.my/	transmue /tʁɑ̃s.my/	transmuons /tʁɑ̃s.mɥɔ̃/	transmuez /tʁɑ̃s.mɥe/	transmuent /tʁɑ̃s.my/
	imperfect	transmuais /tʁɑ̃s.mɥɛ/	transmuais /tʁɑ̃s.mɥɛ/	transmuait /tʁɑ̃s.mɥɛ/	transmuions /tʁɑ̃s.my.jɔ̃/	transmuiez /tʁɑ̃s.my.je/	transmuaient /tʁɑ̃s.mɥɛ/
	past historic2	transmuai /tʁɑ̃s.mɥe/	transmuas /tʁɑ̃s.mɥa/	transmua /tʁɑ̃s.mɥa/	transmuâmes /tʁɑ̃s.mɥam/	transmuâtes /tʁɑ̃s.mɥat/	transmuèrent /tʁɑ̃s.mɥɛʁ/
	future	transmuerai /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁe/	transmueras /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁa/	transmuera /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁa/	transmuerons /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁɔ̃/	transmuerez /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁe/	transmueront /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	transmuerais /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁɛ/	transmuerais /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁɛ/	transmuerait /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁɛ/	transmuerions /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁjɔ̃/	transmueriez /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁje/	transmueraient /tʁɑ̃s.my.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	transmue /tʁɑ̃s.my/	transmues /tʁɑ̃s.my/	transmue /tʁɑ̃s.my/	transmuions /tʁɑ̃s.my.jɔ̃/	transmuiez /tʁɑ̃s.my.je/	transmuent /tʁɑ̃s.my/
	imperfect2	transmuasse /tʁɑ̃s.mɥas/	transmuasses /tʁɑ̃s.mɥas/	transmuât /tʁɑ̃s.mɥa/	transmuassions /tʁɑ̃s.mɥa.sjɔ̃/	transmuassiez /tʁɑ̃s.mɥa.sje/	transmuassent /tʁɑ̃s.mɥas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	transmue /tʁɑ̃s.my/	—	transmuons /tʁɑ̃s.mɥɔ̃/	transmuez /tʁɑ̃s.mɥe/	—
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).

Further reading

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