transmuer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin trānsmūtō, trānsmūtāre, using conjugation of muer. The form transmuter was remade after the Latin source.
Pronunciation
Verb
transmuer
- (transitive) to transmute
Conjugation
Conjugation of transmuer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | transmuer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | transmuant /tʁɑ̃s.mɥɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | transmué /tʁɑ̃s.mɥe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | transmue /tʁɑ̃s.my/ |
transmues /tʁɑ̃s.my/ |
transmue /tʁɑ̃s.my/ |
transmuons /tʁɑ̃s.mɥɔ̃/ |
transmuez /tʁɑ̃s.mɥe/ |
transmuent /tʁɑ̃s.my/ |
| imperfect | transmuais /tʁɑ̃s.mɥɛ/ |
transmuais /tʁɑ̃s.mɥɛ/ |
transmuait /tʁɑ̃s.mɥɛ/ |
transmuions /tʁɑ̃s.my.jɔ̃/ |
transmuiez /tʁɑ̃s.my.je/ |
transmuaient /tʁɑ̃s.mɥɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | transmuai /tʁɑ̃s.mɥe/ |
transmuas /tʁɑ̃s.mɥa/ |
transmua /tʁɑ̃s.mɥa/ |
transmuâmes /tʁɑ̃s.mɥam/ |
transmuâtes /tʁɑ̃s.mɥat/ |
transmuèrent /tʁɑ̃s.mɥɛʁ/ | |
| future | transmuerai /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁe/ |
transmueras /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁa/ |
transmuera /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁa/ |
transmuerons /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁɔ̃/ |
transmuerez /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁe/ |
transmueront /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | transmuerais /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁɛ/ |
transmuerais /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁɛ/ |
transmuerait /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁɛ/ |
transmuerions /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁjɔ̃/ |
transmueriez /tʁɑ̃s.my.ʁje/ |
transmueraient /tʁɑ̃s.my.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 | transmue /tʁɑ̃s.my/ |
transmues /tʁɑ̃s.my/ |
transmue /tʁɑ̃s.my/ |
transmuions /tʁɑ̃s.my.jɔ̃/ |
transmuiez /tʁɑ̃s.my.je/ |
transmuent /tʁɑ̃s.my/ |
| imperfect2 | transmuasse /tʁɑ̃s.mɥas/ |
transmuasses /tʁɑ̃s.mɥas/ |
transmuât /tʁɑ̃s.mɥa/ |
transmuassions /tʁɑ̃s.mɥa.sjɔ̃/ |
transmuassiez /tʁɑ̃s.mɥa.sje/ |
transmuassent /tʁɑ̃s.mɥas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | transmue /tʁɑ̃s.my/ |
— | transmuons /tʁɑ̃s.mɥɔ̃/ |
transmuez /tʁɑ̃s.mɥe/ |
— | |
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Synonyms
Further reading
- “transmuer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.