maudire
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French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old French maudire, maldire, ultimately from Latin maledīcere, present active infinitive of maledīcō (“I slander, curse”). Equivalent to mal + dire.
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
maudire
- (transitive) to curse
Conjugation [edit]
- This is almost a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. Its only irregularities are in the past participle, which is maudit(e)(s) rather than *maudi(e)(s), and in the infinitive, which is maudire rather than *maudir.
Conjugation of maudire (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | maudire | avoir maudit | |||||
| gerund | en maudissant | en ayant maudit | |||||
| present participle | maudissant | ||||||
| past participle | maudit | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | maudis | maudis | maudit | maudissons | maudissez | maudissent |
| imperfect | maudissais | maudissais | maudissait | maudissions | maudissiez | maudissaient | |
| past historic1 | maudis | maudis | maudit | maudîmes | maudîtes | maudirent | |
| future | maudirai | maudiras | maudira | maudirons | maudirez | maudiront | |
| conditional | maudirais | maudirais | maudirait | maudirions | maudiriez | maudiraient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | maudisse | maudisses | maudisse | maudissions | maudissiez | maudissent |
| imperfect1 | maudisse | maudisses | maudît | maudissions | maudissiez | maudissent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | maudis | — | maudissons | maudissez | — | ||
| 1literary tenses | |||||||
Old French [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Verb [edit]
maudire
- to curse
