meugler

French

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin mūgilāre (infinitive mūgilāre).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mø.ɡle/

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Verb

meugler

1. to moo, to low

Conjugation

Conjugation of meugler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	meugler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	meuglant /mœ.ɡlɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		meuglé /mœ.ɡle/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	meugle /mœɡl/	meugles /mœɡl/	meugle /mœɡl/	meuglons /mœ.ɡlɔ̃/	meuglez /mœ.ɡle/	meuglent /mœɡl/
	imperfect	meuglais /mœ.ɡlɛ/	meuglais /mœ.ɡlɛ/	meuglait /mœ.ɡlɛ/	meuglions /mœ.ɡli.jɔ̃/	meugliez /mœ.ɡli.je/	meuglaient /mœ.ɡlɛ/
	past historic2	meuglai /mœ.ɡle/	meuglas /mœ.ɡla/	meugla /mœ.ɡla/	meuglâmes /mœ.ɡlam/	meuglâtes /mœ.ɡlat/	meuglèrent /mœ.ɡlɛʁ/
	future	meuglerai /mœ.ɡlə.ʁe/	meugleras /mœ.ɡlə.ʁa/	meuglera /mœ.ɡlə.ʁa/	meuglerons /mœ.ɡlə.ʁɔ̃/	meuglerez /mœ.ɡlə.ʁe/	meugleront /mœ.ɡlə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	meuglerais /mœ.ɡlə.ʁɛ/	meuglerais /mœ.ɡlə.ʁɛ/	meuglerait /mœ.ɡlə.ʁɛ/	meuglerions /mœ.ɡlə.ʁjɔ̃/	meugleriez /mœ.ɡlə.ʁje/	meugleraient /mœ.ɡlə.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	meugle /mœɡl/	meugles /mœɡl/	meugle /mœɡl/	meuglions /mœ.ɡli.jɔ̃/	meugliez /mœ.ɡli.je/	meuglent /mœɡl/
	imperfect2	meuglasse /mœ.ɡlas/	meuglasses /mœ.ɡlas/	meuglât /mœ.ɡla/	meuglassions /mœ.ɡla.sjɔ̃/	meuglassiez /mœ.ɡla.sje/	meuglassent /mœ.ɡlas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	meugle /mœɡl/	—	meuglons /mœ.ɡlɔ̃/	meuglez /mœ.ɡle/	—
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

• meuglement

Further reading

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