meringuer

French

Etymology

From meringue +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡe/

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Verb

meringuer

1. to cover with a layer of meringue

Conjugation

Conjugation of meringuer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	meringuer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	meringuant /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		meringué /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	meringue /mə.ʁɛ̃ɡ/	meringues /mə.ʁɛ̃ɡ/	meringue /mə.ʁɛ̃ɡ/	meringuons /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡɔ̃/	meringuez /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡe/	meringuent /mə.ʁɛ̃ɡ/
	imperfect	meringuais /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡɛ/	meringuais /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡɛ/	meringuait /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡɛ/	meringuions /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡjɔ̃/	meringuiez /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡje/	meringuaient /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡɛ/
	past historic2	meringuai /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡe/	meringuas /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡa/	meringua /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡa/	meringuâmes /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡam/	meringuâtes /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡat/	meringuèrent /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡɛʁ/
	future	meringuerai /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡʁe/	meringueras /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡʁa/	meringuera /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡʁa/	meringuerons /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡʁɔ̃/	meringuerez /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡʁe/	meringueront /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡʁɔ̃/
	conditional	meringuerais /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡʁɛ/	meringuerais /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡʁɛ/	meringuerait /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡʁɛ/	meringuerions /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡə.ʁjɔ̃/	meringueriez /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡə.ʁje/	meringueraient /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡʁɛ/
(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	meringue /mə.ʁɛ̃ɡ/	meringues /mə.ʁɛ̃ɡ/	meringue /mə.ʁɛ̃ɡ/	meringuions /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡjɔ̃/	meringuiez /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡje/	meringuent /mə.ʁɛ̃ɡ/
	imperfect2	meringuasse /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡas/	meringuasses /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡas/	meringuât /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡa/	meringuassions /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡa.sjɔ̃/	meringuassiez /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡa.sje/	meringuassent /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	meringue /mə.ʁɛ̃ɡ/	—	meringuons /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡɔ̃/	meringuez /mə.ʁɛ̃.ɡe/	—
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

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