moufter
French
Alternative forms
- mouveter, moufeter, mouffeter
Etymology
From mouveter, derived from mouvoir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /muf.te/
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Verb
moufter
- (colloquial, intransitive, chiefly in the negative) to protest, complain
Conjugation
Conjugation of moufter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | moufter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | mouftant /muf.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | moufté /muf.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | moufte /muft/ | mouftes /muft/ | moufte /muft/ | mouftons /muf.tɔ̃/ | mouftez /muf.te/ | mouftent /muft/ |
imperfect | mouftais /muf.tɛ/ | mouftais /muf.tɛ/ | mouftait /muf.tɛ/ | mouftions /muf.tjɔ̃/ | mouftiez /muf.tje/ | mouftaient /muf.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | mouftai /muf.te/ | mouftas /muf.ta/ | moufta /muf.ta/ | mouftâmes /muf.tam/ | mouftâtes /muf.tat/ | mouftèrent /muf.tɛʁ/ | |
future | moufterai /muf.tə.ʁe/ | moufteras /muf.tə.ʁa/ | mouftera /muf.tə.ʁa/ | moufterons /muf.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | moufterez /muf.tə.ʁe/ | moufteront /muf.tə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | moufterais /muf.tə.ʁɛ/ | moufterais /muf.tə.ʁɛ/ | moufterait /muf.tə.ʁɛ/ | moufterions /muf.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | moufteriez /muf.tə.ʁje/ | moufteraient /muf.tə.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 | moufte /muft/ | mouftes /muft/ | moufte /muft/ | mouftions /muf.tjɔ̃/ | mouftiez /muf.tje/ | mouftent /muft/ |
imperfect2 | mouftasse /muf.tas/ | mouftasses /muf.tas/ | mouftât /muf.ta/ | mouftassions /muf.ta.sjɔ̃/ | mouftassiez /muf.ta.sje/ | mouftassent /muf.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | moufte /muft/ | — | mouftons /muf.tɔ̃/ | mouftez /muf.te/ | — | |
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). |
Further reading
- “moufter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.