miauler

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French miauler, related to onomatopoeic miaou.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mjo.le/

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Verb

miauler

1. (intransitive) to meow, meowl, mew

Conjugation

Conjugation of miauler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	miauler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	miaulant /mjo.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		miaulé /mjo.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	miaule /mjol/	miaules /mjol/	miaule /mjol/	miaulons /mjo.lɔ̃/	miaulez /mjo.le/	miaulent /mjol/
	imperfect	miaulais /mjo.lɛ/	miaulais /mjo.lɛ/	miaulait /mjo.lɛ/	miaulions /mjo.ljɔ̃/	miauliez /mjo.lje/	miaulaient /mjo.lɛ/
	past historic2	miaulai /mjo.le/	miaulas /mjo.la/	miaula /mjo.la/	miaulâmes /mjo.lam/	miaulâtes /mjo.lat/	miaulèrent /mjo.lɛʁ/
	future	miaulerai /mjol.ʁe/	miauleras /mjol.ʁa/	miaulera /mjol.ʁa/	miaulerons /mjol.ʁɔ̃/	miaulerez /mjol.ʁe/	miauleront /mjol.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	miaulerais /mjol.ʁɛ/	miaulerais /mjol.ʁɛ/	miaulerait /mjol.ʁɛ/	miaulerions /mjo.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	miauleriez /mjo.lə.ʁje/	miauleraient /mjol.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	miaule /mjol/	miaules /mjol/	miaule /mjol/	miaulions /mjo.ljɔ̃/	miauliez /mjo.lje/	miaulent /mjol/
	imperfect2	miaulasse /mjo.las/	miaulasses /mjo.las/	miaulât /mjo.la/	miaulassions /mjo.la.sjɔ̃/	miaulassiez /mjo.la.sje/	miaulassent /mjo.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	miaule /mjol/	—	miaulons /mjo.lɔ̃/	miaulez /mjo.le/	—
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).

Derived terms

• miaulement

See also

• ronronner

Further reading

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