mâchouiller

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

mâchouiller

1. to chew, chomp

Conjugation

Conjugation of mâchouiller (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mâchouiller
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mâchouillant /ma.ʃu.jɑ̃/ or /mɑ.ʃu.jɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		mâchouillé /ma.ʃu.je/ or /mɑ.ʃu.je/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mâchouille /ma.ʃuj/ or /mɑ.ʃuj/	mâchouilles /ma.ʃuj/ or /mɑ.ʃuj/	mâchouille /ma.ʃuj/ or /mɑ.ʃuj/	mâchouillons /ma.ʃu.jɔ̃/ or /mɑ.ʃu.jɔ̃/	mâchouillez /ma.ʃu.je/ or /mɑ.ʃu.je/	mâchouillent /ma.ʃuj/ or /mɑ.ʃuj/
	imperfect	mâchouillais /ma.ʃu.jɛ/ or /mɑ.ʃu.jɛ/	mâchouillais /ma.ʃu.jɛ/ or /mɑ.ʃu.jɛ/	mâchouillait /ma.ʃu.jɛ/ or /mɑ.ʃu.jɛ/	mâchouillions /ma.ʃuj.jɔ̃/ or /mɑ.ʃuj.jɔ̃/	mâchouilliez /ma.ʃuj.je/ or /mɑ.ʃuj.je/	mâchouillaient /ma.ʃu.jɛ/ or /mɑ.ʃu.jɛ/
	past historic2	mâchouillai /ma.ʃu.je/ or /mɑ.ʃu.je/	mâchouillas /ma.ʃu.ja/ or /mɑ.ʃu.ja/	mâchouilla /ma.ʃu.ja/ or /mɑ.ʃu.ja/	mâchouillâmes /ma.ʃu.jam/ or /mɑ.ʃu.jam/	mâchouillâtes /ma.ʃu.jat/ or /mɑ.ʃu.jat/	mâchouillèrent /ma.ʃu.jɛʁ/ or /mɑ.ʃu.jɛʁ/
	future	mâchouillerai /ma.ʃuj.ʁe/ or /mɑ.ʃuj.ʁe/	mâchouilleras /ma.ʃuj.ʁa/ or /mɑ.ʃuj.ʁa/	mâchouillera /ma.ʃuj.ʁa/ or /mɑ.ʃuj.ʁa/	mâchouillerons /ma.ʃuj.ʁɔ̃/ or /mɑ.ʃuj.ʁɔ̃/	mâchouillerez /ma.ʃuj.ʁe/ or /mɑ.ʃuj.ʁe/	mâchouilleront /ma.ʃuj.ʁɔ̃/ or /mɑ.ʃuj.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mâchouillerais /ma.ʃuj.ʁɛ/ or /mɑ.ʃuj.ʁɛ/	mâchouillerais /ma.ʃuj.ʁɛ/ or /mɑ.ʃuj.ʁɛ/	mâchouillerait /ma.ʃuj.ʁɛ/ or /mɑ.ʃuj.ʁɛ/	mâchouillerions /ma.ʃu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /mɑ.ʃu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/	mâchouilleriez /ma.ʃu.jə.ʁje/ or /mɑ.ʃu.jə.ʁje/	mâchouilleraient /ma.ʃuj.ʁɛ/ or /mɑ.ʃuj.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	mâchouille /ma.ʃuj/ or /mɑ.ʃuj/	mâchouilles /ma.ʃuj/ or /mɑ.ʃuj/	mâchouille /ma.ʃuj/ or /mɑ.ʃuj/	mâchouillions /ma.ʃuj.jɔ̃/ or /mɑ.ʃuj.jɔ̃/	mâchouilliez /ma.ʃuj.je/ or /mɑ.ʃuj.je/	mâchouillent /ma.ʃuj/ or /mɑ.ʃuj/
	imperfect2	mâchouillasse /ma.ʃu.jas/ or /mɑ.ʃu.jas/	mâchouillasses /ma.ʃu.jas/ or /mɑ.ʃu.jas/	mâchouillât /ma.ʃu.ja/ or /mɑ.ʃu.ja/	mâchouillassions /ma.ʃu.ja.sjɔ̃/ or /mɑ.ʃu.ja.sjɔ̃/	mâchouillassiez /ma.ʃu.ja.sje/ or /mɑ.ʃu.ja.sje/	mâchouillassent /ma.ʃu.jas/ or /mɑ.ʃu.jas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mâchouille /ma.ʃuj/ or /mɑ.ʃuj/	—	mâchouillons /ma.ʃu.jɔ̃/ or /mɑ.ʃu.jɔ̃/	mâchouillez /ma.ʃu.je/ or /mɑ.ʃu.je/	—
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

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