muloter

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

muloter

1. to mouse (hunt mice (or similar prey) by pouncing on them from above.)

Conjugation

Conjugation of muloter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	muloter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mulotant /my.lɔ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		muloté /my.lɔ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mulote /my.lɔt/	mulotes /my.lɔt/	mulote /my.lɔt/	mulotons /my.lɔ.tɔ̃/	mulotez /my.lɔ.te/	mulotent /my.lɔt/
	imperfect	mulotais /my.lɔ.tɛ/	mulotais /my.lɔ.tɛ/	mulotait /my.lɔ.tɛ/	mulotions /my.lɔ.tjɔ̃/	mulotiez /my.lɔ.tje/	mulotaient /my.lɔ.tɛ/
	past historic2	mulotai /my.lɔ.te/	mulotas /my.lɔ.ta/	mulota /my.lɔ.ta/	mulotâmes /my.lɔ.tam/	mulotâtes /my.lɔ.tat/	mulotèrent /my.lɔ.tɛʁ/
	future	muloterai /my.lɔ.tʁe/	muloteras /my.lɔ.tʁa/	mulotera /my.lɔ.tʁa/	muloterons /my.lɔ.tʁɔ̃/	muloterez /my.lɔ.tʁe/	muloteront /my.lɔ.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	muloterais /my.lɔ.tʁɛ/	muloterais /my.lɔ.tʁɛ/	muloterait /my.lɔ.tʁɛ/	muloterions /my.lɔ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	muloteriez /my.lɔ.tə.ʁje/	muloteraient /my.lɔ.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	mulote /my.lɔt/	mulotes /my.lɔt/	mulote /my.lɔt/	mulotions /my.lɔ.tjɔ̃/	mulotiez /my.lɔ.tje/	mulotent /my.lɔt/
	imperfect2	mulotasse /my.lɔ.tas/	mulotasses /my.lɔ.tas/	mulotât /my.lɔ.ta/	mulotassions /my.lɔ.ta.sjɔ̃/	mulotassiez /my.lɔ.ta.sje/	mulotassent /my.lɔ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mulote /my.lɔt/	—	mulotons /my.lɔ.tɔ̃/	mulotez /my.lɔ.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: 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

• mulot
• mulotage