morceler

French

Etymology

From morceau +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁ.sə.le/

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Verb

morceler

1. (transitive) to break up; to divide up

Conjugation

With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.

Conjugation of morceler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	morceler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	morcelant /mɔʁ.sə.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		morcelé /mɔʁ.sə.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	morcelle or morcèle /mɔʁ.sɛl/	morcelles or morcèles /mɔʁ.sɛl/	morcelle or morcèle /mɔʁ.sɛl/	morcelons /mɔʁ.sə.lɔ̃/	morcelez /mɔʁ.sə.le/	morcellent or morcèlent /mɔʁ.sɛl/
	imperfect	morcelais /mɔʁ.sə.lɛ/	morcelais /mɔʁ.sə.lɛ/	morcelait /mɔʁ.sə.lɛ/	morcelions /mɔʁ.sə.ljɔ̃/	morceliez /mɔʁ.sə.lje/	morcelaient /mɔʁ.sə.lɛ/
	past historic2	morcelai /mɔʁ.sə.le/	morcelas /mɔʁ.sə.la/	morcela /mɔʁ.sə.la/	morcelâmes /mɔʁ.sə.lam/	morcelâtes /mɔʁ.sə.lat/	morcelèrent /mɔʁ.sə.lɛʁ/
	future	morcellerai or morcèlerai /mɔʁ.sɛl.ʁe/	morcelleras or morcèleras /mɔʁ.sɛl.ʁa/	morcellera or morcèlera /mɔʁ.sɛl.ʁa/	morcellerons or morcèlerons /mɔʁ.sɛl.ʁɔ̃/	morcellerez or morcèlerez /mɔʁ.sɛl.ʁe/	morcelleront or morcèleront /mɔʁ.sɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	morcellerais or morcèlerais /mɔʁ.sɛl.ʁɛ/	morcellerais or morcèlerais /mɔʁ.sɛl.ʁɛ/	morcellerait or morcèlerait /mɔʁ.sɛl.ʁɛ/	morcellerions or morcèlerions /mɔʁ.sɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /mɔʁ.se.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	morcelleriez or morcèleriez /mɔʁ.sɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /mɔʁ.se.lə.ʁje/	morcelleraient or morcèleraient /mɔʁ.sɛl.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	morcelle or morcèle /mɔʁ.sɛl/	morcelles or morcèles /mɔʁ.sɛl/	morcelle or morcèle /mɔʁ.sɛl/	morcelions /mɔʁ.sə.ljɔ̃/	morceliez /mɔʁ.sə.lje/	morcellent or morcèlent /mɔʁ.sɛl/
	imperfect2	morcelasse /mɔʁ.sə.las/	morcelasses /mɔʁ.sə.las/	morcelât /mɔʁ.sə.la/	morcelassions /mɔʁ.sə.la.sjɔ̃/	morcelassiez /mɔʁ.sə.la.sje/	morcelassent /mɔʁ.sə.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	morcelle or morcèle /mɔʁ.sɛl/	—	morcelons /mɔʁ.sə.lɔ̃/	morcelez /mɔʁ.sə.le/	—
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

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