mélanger

French

Etymology

From mélange +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.lɑ̃.ʒe/

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Verb

mélanger

1. to mix, to mix up

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb, but the stem is written mélange- before endings that begin with -a- or -o- (to indicate that the -g- is a "soft" /ʒ/ and not a "hard" /ɡ/). This spelling-change occurs in all verbs in -ger, such as neiger and manger.

Conjugation of mélanger (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mélanger
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mélangeant /me.lɑ̃.ʒɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		mélangé /me.lɑ̃.ʒe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mélange /me.lɑ̃ʒ/	mélanges /me.lɑ̃ʒ/	mélange /me.lɑ̃ʒ/	mélangeons /me.lɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/	mélangez /me.lɑ̃.ʒe/	mélangent /me.lɑ̃ʒ/
	imperfect	mélangeais /me.lɑ̃.ʒɛ/	mélangeais /me.lɑ̃.ʒɛ/	mélangeait /me.lɑ̃.ʒɛ/	mélangions /me.lɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/	mélangiez /me.lɑ̃.ʒje/	mélangeaient /me.lɑ̃.ʒɛ/
	past historic2	mélangeai /me.lɑ̃.ʒe/	mélangeas /me.lɑ̃.ʒa/	mélangea /me.lɑ̃.ʒa/	mélangeâmes /me.lɑ̃.ʒam/	mélangeâtes /me.lɑ̃.ʒat/	mélangèrent /me.lɑ̃.ʒɛʁ/
	future	mélangerai /me.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/	mélangeras /me.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/	mélangera /me.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁa/	mélangerons /me.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/	mélangerez /me.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁe/	mélangeront /me.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mélangerais /me.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	mélangerais /me.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	mélangerait /me.lɑ̃ʒ.ʁɛ/	mélangerions /me.lɑ̃.ʒə.ʁjɔ̃/	mélangeriez /me.lɑ̃.ʒə.ʁje/	mélangeraient /me.lɑ̃ʒ.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	mélange /me.lɑ̃ʒ/	mélanges /me.lɑ̃ʒ/	mélange /me.lɑ̃ʒ/	mélangions /me.lɑ̃.ʒjɔ̃/	mélangiez /me.lɑ̃.ʒje/	mélangent /me.lɑ̃ʒ/
	imperfect2	mélangeasse /me.lɑ̃.ʒas/	mélangeasses /me.lɑ̃.ʒas/	mélangeât /me.lɑ̃.ʒa/	mélangeassions /me.lɑ̃.ʒa.sjɔ̃/	mélangeassiez /me.lɑ̃.ʒa.sje/	mélangeassent /me.lɑ̃.ʒas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mélange /me.lɑ̃ʒ/	—	mélangeons /me.lɑ̃.ʒɔ̃/	mélangez /me.lɑ̃.ʒe/	—
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).

See also

• mêler

Further reading

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