mouler

French

Etymology

From moule +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu.le/

Verb

mouler

1. to mould
2. to fit tightly (clothes)
3. (Louisiana) to grind, mill

Conjugation

Conjugation of mouler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mouler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	moulant /mu.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		moulé /mu.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	moule /mul/	moules /mul/	moule /mul/	moulons /mu.lɔ̃/	moulez /mu.le/	moulent /mul/
	imperfect	moulais /mu.lɛ/	moulais /mu.lɛ/	moulait /mu.lɛ/	moulions /mu.ljɔ̃/	mouliez /mu.lje/	moulaient /mu.lɛ/
	past historic2	moulai /mu.le/	moulas /mu.la/	moula /mu.la/	moulâmes /mu.lam/	moulâtes /mu.lat/	moulèrent /mu.lɛʁ/
	future	moulerai /mul.ʁe/	mouleras /mul.ʁa/	moulera /mul.ʁa/	moulerons /mul.ʁɔ̃/	moulerez /mul.ʁe/	mouleront /mul.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	moulerais /mul.ʁɛ/	moulerais /mul.ʁɛ/	moulerait /mul.ʁɛ/	moulerions /mu.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	mouleriez /mu.lə.ʁje/	mouleraient /mul.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	moule /mul/	moules /mul/	moule /mul/	moulions /mu.ljɔ̃/	mouliez /mu.lje/	moulent /mul/
	imperfect2	moulasse /mu.las/	moulasses /mu.las/	moulât /mu.la/	moulassions /mu.la.sjɔ̃/	moulassiez /mu.la.sje/	moulassent /mu.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	moule /mul/	—	moulons /mu.lɔ̃/	moulez /mu.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

• moulage

Further reading

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