museler
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French musel (Modern French museau) + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]museler
- (transitive) to muzzle (attach a muzzle onto)
- (transitive, figuratively) to silence (prevent or forbid someone from speaking)
Conjugation
[edit]With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.
Conjugation of museler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | museler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | muselant /myz.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | muselé /myz.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | muselle or musèle /my.zɛl/ |
muselles or musèles /my.zɛl/ |
muselle or musèle /my.zɛl/ |
muselons /myz.lɔ̃/ |
muselez /myz.le/ |
musellent or musèlent /my.zɛl/ |
| imperfect | muselais /myz.lɛ/ |
muselais /myz.lɛ/ |
muselait /myz.lɛ/ |
muselions /my.zə.ljɔ̃/ |
museliez /my.zə.lje/ |
muselaient /myz.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | muselai /myz.le/ |
muselas /myz.la/ |
musela /myz.la/ |
muselâmes /myz.lam/ |
muselâtes /myz.lat/ |
muselèrent /myz.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | musellerai or musèlerai /my.zɛl.ʁe/ |
muselleras or musèleras /my.zɛl.ʁa/ |
musellera or musèlera /my.zɛl.ʁa/ |
musellerons or musèlerons /my.zɛl.ʁɔ̃/ |
musellerez or musèlerez /my.zɛl.ʁe/ |
muselleront or musèleront /my.zɛl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | musellerais or musèlerais /my.zɛl.ʁɛ/ |
musellerais or musèlerais /my.zɛl.ʁɛ/ |
musellerait or musèlerait /my.zɛl.ʁɛ/ |
musellerions or musèlerions /my.zɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /my.ze.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
muselleriez or musèleriez /my.zɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /my.ze.lə.ʁje/ |
muselleraient or musèleraient /my.zɛl.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 | muselle or musèle /my.zɛl/ |
muselles or musèles /my.zɛl/ |
muselle or musèle /my.zɛl/ |
muselions /my.zə.ljɔ̃/ |
museliez /my.zə.lje/ |
musellent or musèlent /my.zɛl/ |
| imperfect2 | muselasse /myz.las/ |
muselasses /myz.las/ |
muselât /myz.la/ |
muselassions /myz.la.sjɔ̃/ |
muselassiez /myz.la.sje/ |
muselassent /myz.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | muselle or musèle /my.zɛl/ |
— | muselons /myz.lɔ̃/ |
muselez /myz.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “museler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.