messeoir

French

Alternative forms

• messoir (post-1990 spelling)

Etymology

Inherited from Old French meseoir. Equivalent to més- +‎ seoir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.swaʁ/, /mɛ.swaʁ/

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Verb

messeoir

1. (defective, archaic) to be unsuitable; to be unwanted

Conjugation

This is a defective verb, only conjugated in the third person.

Conjugation of messeoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	messeoir
	compound	—
present participle or gerund1	simple	messéant or messeyant /me.se.ɑ̃/ or /me.sɛ.jɑ̃/ or /me.se.jɑ̃/
	compound	—
past participle		—
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	—	—	messied /me.sje/	—	—	messiéent /me.sje/
	imperfect	—	—	messeyait /me.sɛ.jɛ/ or /me.se.jɛ/	—	—	messeyaient /me.sɛ.jɛ/ or /me.se.jɛ/
	past historic2	—	—	—	—	—	—
	future	—	—	messiéra /me.sje.ʁa/	—	—	messiéront /me.sje.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	—	—	messiérait /me.sje.ʁɛ/	—	—	messiéraient /me.sje.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	—
	pluperfect	—
	past anterior2	—
	future perfect	—
	conditional perfect	—
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	—	—	messiée /me.sje/	—	—	messiéent /me.sje/
	imperfect2	—	—	—	—	—	—
(compound tenses)	past	—
	pluperfect2	—
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	—	—	—	—	—
compound		—	—	—	—	—	—
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

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