commuer

French

Etymology

From Latin commutare, under influence of French muer.

Pronunciation

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Verb

commuer

1. (law) to commute (a sentence)

   Commuer la peine de quelqu’un. ― to commute someone's sentence.

Conjugation

Conjugation of commuer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	commuer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	commuant /kɔ.mɥɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		commué /kɔ.mɥe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	commue /kɔ.my/	commues /kɔ.my/	commue /kɔ.my/	commuons /kɔ.mɥɔ̃/	commuez /kɔ.mɥe/	commuent /kɔ.my/
	imperfect	commuais /kɔ.mɥɛ/	commuais /kɔ.mɥɛ/	commuait /kɔ.mɥɛ/	commuions /kɔ.my.jɔ̃/	commuiez /kɔ.my.je/	commuaient /kɔ.mɥɛ/
	past historic2	commuai /kɔ.mɥe/	commuas /kɔ.mɥa/	commua /kɔ.mɥa/	commuâmes /kɔ.mɥam/	commuâtes /kɔ.mɥat/	commuèrent /kɔ.mɥɛʁ/
	future	commuerai /kɔ.my.ʁe/	commueras /kɔ.my.ʁa/	commuera /kɔ.my.ʁa/	commuerons /kɔ.my.ʁɔ̃/	commuerez /kɔ.my.ʁe/	commueront /kɔ.my.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	commuerais /kɔ.my.ʁɛ/	commuerais /kɔ.my.ʁɛ/	commuerait /kɔ.my.ʁɛ/	commuerions /kɔ.my.ʁjɔ̃/	commueriez /kɔ.my.ʁje/	commueraient /kɔ.my.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	commue /kɔ.my/	commues /kɔ.my/	commue /kɔ.my/	commuions /kɔ.my.jɔ̃/	commuiez /kɔ.my.je/	commuent /kɔ.my/
	imperfect2	commuasse /kɔ.mɥas/	commuasses /kɔ.mɥas/	commuât /kɔ.mɥa/	commuassions /kɔ.mɥa.sjɔ̃/	commuassiez /kɔ.mɥa.sje/	commuassent /kɔ.mɥas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	commue /kɔ.my/	—	commuons /kɔ.mɥɔ̃/	commuez /kɔ.mɥe/	—
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

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