moucheter

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French moucheter. By surface analysis, mouche +‎ -eter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muʃ.te/
• Rhymes: -e

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Verb

moucheter

1. to fleck

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 moucheter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	moucheter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mouchetant /muʃ.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		moucheté /muʃ.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mouchette or mouchète /mu.ʃɛt/	mouchettes or mouchètes /mu.ʃɛt/	mouchette or mouchète /mu.ʃɛt/	mouchetons /muʃ.tɔ̃/	mouchetez /muʃ.te/	mouchettent or mouchètent /mu.ʃɛt/
	imperfect	mouchetais /muʃ.tɛ/	mouchetais /muʃ.tɛ/	mouchetait /muʃ.tɛ/	mouchetions /mu.ʃə.tjɔ̃/	mouchetiez /mu.ʃə.tje/	mouchetaient /muʃ.tɛ/
	past historic2	mouchetai /muʃ.te/	mouchetas /muʃ.ta/	moucheta /muʃ.ta/	mouchetâmes /muʃ.tam/	mouchetâtes /muʃ.tat/	mouchetèrent /muʃ.tɛʁ/
	future	mouchetterai or mouchèterai /mu.ʃɛ.tʁe/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁe/	mouchetteras or mouchèteras /mu.ʃɛ.tʁa/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁa/	mouchettera or mouchètera /mu.ʃɛ.tʁa/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁa/	mouchetterons or mouchèterons /mu.ʃɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁɔ̃/	mouchetterez or mouchèterez /mu.ʃɛ.tʁe/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁe/	mouchetteront or mouchèteront /mu.ʃɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mouchetterais or mouchèterais /mu.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁɛ/	mouchetterais or mouchèterais /mu.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁɛ/	mouchetterait or mouchèterait /mu.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁɛ/	mouchetterions or mouchèterions /mu.ʃɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /mu.ʃe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	mouchetteriez or mouchèteriez /mu.ʃɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /mu.ʃe.tə.ʁje/	mouchetteraient or mouchèteraient /mu.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁɛ/
(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	mouchette or mouchète /mu.ʃɛt/	mouchettes or mouchètes /mu.ʃɛt/	mouchette or mouchète /mu.ʃɛt/	mouchetions /mu.ʃə.tjɔ̃/	mouchetiez /mu.ʃə.tje/	mouchettent or mouchètent /mu.ʃɛt/
	imperfect2	mouchetasse /muʃ.tas/	mouchetasses /muʃ.tas/	mouchetât /muʃ.ta/	mouchetassions /muʃ.ta.sjɔ̃/	mouchetassiez /muʃ.ta.sje/	mouchetassent /muʃ.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mouchette or mouchète /mu.ʃɛt/	—	mouchetons /muʃ.tɔ̃/	mouchetez /muʃ.te/	—
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

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