moucher
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin muccare, from mucus
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
moucher
- (transitive) to blow (someone's) nose
- (transitive, colloquial) to put someone in their place
- (reflexive) to blow one's nose
- (transitive) to snuff out (a candle etc.)
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of moucher (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | moucher | avoir mouché | |||||
| gerund | en mouchant | en ayant mouché | |||||
| present participle | mouchant /mu.ʃɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | mouché /mu.ʃe/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | mouche /muʃ/ |
mouches /muʃ/ |
mouche /muʃ/ |
mouchons /mu.ʃɔ̃/ |
mouchez /mu.ʃe/ |
mouchent /muʃ/ |
| imperfect | mouchais /mu.ʃɛ/ |
mouchais /mu.ʃɛ/ |
mouchait /mu.ʃɛ/ |
mouchions /mu.ʃjɔ̃/ |
mouchiez /mu.ʃje/ |
mouchaient /mu.ʃɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | mouchai /mu.ʃe/ |
mouchas /mu.ʃa/ |
moucha /mu.ʃa/ |
mouchâmes /mu.ʃam/ |
mouchâtes /mu.ʃat/ |
mouchèrent /mu.ʃɛʁ/ |
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| future | moucherai /muʃ.ʁe/ |
moucheras /muʃ.ʁa/ |
mouchera /muʃ.ʁa/ |
moucherons /muʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
moucherez /muʃ.ʁe/ |
moucheront /muʃ.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | moucherais /muʃ.ʁɛ/ |
moucherais /muʃ.ʁɛ/ |
moucherait /muʃ.ʁɛ/ |
moucherions /mu.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
moucheriez /mu.ʃə.ʁje/ |
moucheraient /muʃ.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | mouche /muʃ/ |
mouches /muʃ/ |
mouche /muʃ/ |
mouchions /mu.ʃjɔ̃/ |
mouchiez /mu.ʃje/ |
mouchent /muʃ/ |
| imperfect1 | mouchasse /mu.ʃas/ |
mouchasses /mu.ʃas/ |
mouchât /mu.ʃa/ |
mouchassions /mu.ʃa.sjɔ̃/ |
mouchassiez /mu.ʃa.sje/ |
mouchassent /mu.ʃas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | mouche /muʃ/ |
— | mouchons /mu.ʃɔ̃/ |
mouchez /mu.ʃe/ |
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| 1literary tenses | |||||||
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Further reading[edit]
- “moucher” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
