malaxer

English

Etymology

malax +‎ -er

Noun

malaxer (plural malaxers)

1. Synonym of malaxator

French

Etymology

From Latin malaxāre, from Ancient Greek μαλάσσω (malássō).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.lak.se/

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Verb

malaxer

1. to knead
2. to massage

Conjugation

Conjugation of malaxer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	malaxer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	malaxant /ma.lak.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		malaxé /ma.lak.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	malaxe /ma.laks/	malaxes /ma.laks/	malaxe /ma.laks/	malaxons /ma.lak.sɔ̃/	malaxez /ma.lak.se/	malaxent /ma.laks/
	imperfect	malaxais /ma.lak.sɛ/	malaxais /ma.lak.sɛ/	malaxait /ma.lak.sɛ/	malaxions /ma.lak.sjɔ̃/	malaxiez /ma.lak.sje/	malaxaient /ma.lak.sɛ/
	past historic2	malaxai /ma.lak.se/	malaxas /ma.lak.sa/	malaxa /ma.lak.sa/	malaxâmes /ma.lak.sam/	malaxâtes /ma.lak.sat/	malaxèrent /ma.lak.sɛʁ/
	future	malaxerai /ma.lak.sə.ʁe/	malaxeras /ma.lak.sə.ʁa/	malaxera /ma.lak.sə.ʁa/	malaxerons /ma.lak.sə.ʁɔ̃/	malaxerez /ma.lak.sə.ʁe/	malaxeront /ma.lak.sə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	malaxerais /ma.lak.sə.ʁɛ/	malaxerais /ma.lak.sə.ʁɛ/	malaxerait /ma.lak.sə.ʁɛ/	malaxerions /ma.lak.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	malaxeriez /ma.lak.sə.ʁje/	malaxeraient /ma.lak.sə.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	malaxe /ma.laks/	malaxes /ma.laks/	malaxe /ma.laks/	malaxions /ma.lak.sjɔ̃/	malaxiez /ma.lak.sje/	malaxent /ma.laks/
	imperfect2	malaxasse /ma.lak.sas/	malaxasses /ma.lak.sas/	malaxât /ma.lak.sa/	malaxassions /ma.lak.sa.sjɔ̃/	malaxassiez /ma.lak.sa.sje/	malaxassent /ma.lak.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	malaxe /ma.laks/	—	malaxons /ma.lak.sɔ̃/	malaxez /ma.lak.se/	—
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

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