mendier
French
Etymology
From Latin mendicāre, present active infinitive of mendīcō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɑ̃.dje/
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Verb
mendier
- to beg (plead for money or goods)
- Synonym: faire la manche
Conjugation
Conjugation of mendier (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | mendier | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | mendiant /mɑ̃.djɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | mendié /mɑ̃.dje/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | mendie /mɑ̃.di/ | mendies /mɑ̃.di/ | mendie /mɑ̃.di/ | mendions /mɑ̃.djɔ̃/ | mendiez /mɑ̃.dje/ | mendient /mɑ̃.di/ |
| imperfect | mendiais /mɑ̃.djɛ/ | mendiais /mɑ̃.djɛ/ | mendiait /mɑ̃.djɛ/ | mendiions /mɑ̃.di.jɔ̃/ | mendiiez /mɑ̃.di.je/ | mendiaient /mɑ̃.djɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | mendiai /mɑ̃.dje/ | mendias /mɑ̃.dja/ | mendia /mɑ̃.dja/ | mendiâmes /mɑ̃.djam/ | mendiâtes /mɑ̃.djat/ | mendièrent /mɑ̃.djɛʁ/ | |
| future | mendierai /mɑ̃.di.ʁe/ | mendieras /mɑ̃.di.ʁa/ | mendiera /mɑ̃.di.ʁa/ | mendierons /mɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/ | mendierez /mɑ̃.di.ʁe/ | mendieront /mɑ̃.di.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | mendierais /mɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ | mendierais /mɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ | mendierait /mɑ̃.di.ʁɛ/ | mendierions /mɑ̃.di.ʁjɔ̃/ | mendieriez /mɑ̃.di.ʁje/ | mendieraient /mɑ̃.di.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 | mendie /mɑ̃.di/ | mendies /mɑ̃.di/ | mendie /mɑ̃.di/ | mendiions /mɑ̃.di.jɔ̃/ | mendiiez /mɑ̃.di.je/ | mendient /mɑ̃.di/ |
| imperfect2 | mendiasse /mɑ̃.djas/ | mendiasses /mɑ̃.djas/ | mendiât /mɑ̃.dja/ | mendiassions /mɑ̃.dja.sjɔ̃/ | mendiassiez /mɑ̃.dja.sje/ | mendiassent /mɑ̃.djas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | mendie /mɑ̃.di/ | — | mendions /mɑ̃.djɔ̃/ | mendiez /mɑ̃.dje/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
- mendiant
- mendigot
Further reading
- “mendier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.