mendier
French
Etymology
From Latin mendicāre, present active infinitive of mendīcō.
Pronunciation
Verb
mendier
- to beg (plead for money or goods)
- Synonym: faire la manche
Conjugation
Conjugation of mendier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | mendier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | mendiant /mɑ̃.djɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | mendié /mɑ̃.dje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | mendie /mɑ̃.di/ |
mendies /mɑ̃.di/ |
mendie /mɑ̃.di/ |
mendions /mɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
mendiez /mɑ̃.dje/ |
mendient /mɑ̃.di/ |
| imperfect | mendiais /mɑ̃.djɛ/ |
mendiais /mɑ̃.djɛ/ |
mendiait /mɑ̃.djɛ/ |
mendiions /mɑ̃.di.jɔ̃/ |
mendiiez /mɑ̃.di.je/ |
mendiaient /mɑ̃.djɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | mendiai /mɑ̃.dje/ |
mendias /mɑ̃.dja/ |
mendia /mɑ̃.dja/ |
mendiâmes /mɑ̃.djam/ |
mendiâtes /mɑ̃.djat/ |
mendièrent /mɑ̃.djɛʁ/ | |
| future | mendierai /mɑ̃.di.ʁe/ |
mendieras /mɑ̃.di.ʁa/ |
mendiera /mɑ̃.di.ʁa/ |
mendierons /mɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/ |
mendierez /mɑ̃.di.ʁe/ |
mendieront /mɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | mendierais /mɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
mendierais /mɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
mendierait /mɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ |
mendierions /mɑ̃.di.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mendieriez /mɑ̃.di.ʁje/ |
mendieraient /mɑ̃.di.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 | mendie /mɑ̃.di/ |
mendies /mɑ̃.di/ |
mendie /mɑ̃.di/ |
mendiions /mɑ̃.di.jɔ̃/ |
mendiiez /mɑ̃.di.je/ |
mendient /mɑ̃.di/ |
| imperfect2 | mendiasse /mɑ̃.djas/ |
mendiasses /mɑ̃.djas/ |
mendiât /mɑ̃.dja/ |
mendiassions /mɑ̃.dja.sjɔ̃/ |
mendiassiez /mɑ̃.dja.sje/ |
mendiassent /mɑ̃.djas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | mendie /mɑ̃.di/ |
— | mendions /mɑ̃.djɔ̃/ |
mendiez /mɑ̃.dje/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “mendier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.