mousquetonner

French

Etymology

From mousqueton +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Verb

mousquetonner

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Conjugation

Conjugation of mousquetonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mousquetonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mousquetonnant /mus.kə.tɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		mousquetonné /mus.kə.tɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mousquetonne /mus.kə.tɔn/	mousquetonnes /mus.kə.tɔn/	mousquetonne /mus.kə.tɔn/	mousquetonnons /mus.kə.tɔ.nɔ̃/	mousquetonnez /mus.kə.tɔ.ne/	mousquetonnent /mus.kə.tɔn/
	imperfect	mousquetonnais /mus.kə.tɔ.nɛ/	mousquetonnais /mus.kə.tɔ.nɛ/	mousquetonnait /mus.kə.tɔ.nɛ/	mousquetonnions /mus.kə.tɔ.njɔ̃/	mousquetonniez /mus.kə.tɔ.nje/	mousquetonnaient /mus.kə.tɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	mousquetonnai /mus.kə.tɔ.ne/	mousquetonnas /mus.kə.tɔ.na/	mousquetonna /mus.kə.tɔ.na/	mousquetonnâmes /mus.kə.tɔ.nam/	mousquetonnâtes /mus.kə.tɔ.nat/	mousquetonnèrent /mus.kə.tɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	mousquetonnerai /mus.kə.tɔn.ʁe/	mousquetonneras /mus.kə.tɔn.ʁa/	mousquetonnera /mus.kə.tɔn.ʁa/	mousquetonnerons /mus.kə.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/	mousquetonnerez /mus.kə.tɔn.ʁe/	mousquetonneront /mus.kə.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mousquetonnerais /mus.kə.tɔn.ʁɛ/	mousquetonnerais /mus.kə.tɔn.ʁɛ/	mousquetonnerait /mus.kə.tɔn.ʁɛ/	mousquetonnerions /mus.kə.tɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	mousquetonneriez /mus.kə.tɔ.nə.ʁje/	mousquetonneraient /mus.kə.tɔn.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	mousquetonne /mus.kə.tɔn/	mousquetonnes /mus.kə.tɔn/	mousquetonne /mus.kə.tɔn/	mousquetonnions /mus.kə.tɔ.njɔ̃/	mousquetonniez /mus.kə.tɔ.nje/	mousquetonnent /mus.kə.tɔn/
	imperfect2	mousquetonnasse /mus.kə.tɔ.nas/	mousquetonnasses /mus.kə.tɔ.nas/	mousquetonnât /mus.kə.tɔ.na/	mousquetonnassions /mus.kə.tɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	mousquetonnassiez /mus.kə.tɔ.na.sje/	mousquetonnassent /mus.kə.tɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mousquetonne /mus.kə.tɔn/	—	mousquetonnons /mus.kə.tɔ.nɔ̃/	mousquetonnez /mus.kə.tɔ.ne/	—
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).

Related terms

• mousquetonnage

Further reading

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