moutonner
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mu.tɔ.ne/
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Verb
moutonner
- (of sea) to be flecked (with white horses, white caps); to foam, froth
- (literary) (of hills) to roll
- (of sky) to be flecked with fleecy clouds
- (archaic) to practice the occupation of an itinerant shepherd
- (slang) to denounce
Conjugation
Conjugation of moutonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | moutonner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | moutonnant /mu.tɔ.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | moutonné /mu.tɔ.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | moutonne /mu.tɔn/ |
moutonnes /mu.tɔn/ |
moutonne /mu.tɔn/ |
moutonnons /mu.tɔ.nɔ̃/ |
moutonnez /mu.tɔ.ne/ |
moutonnent /mu.tɔn/ |
| imperfect | moutonnais /mu.tɔ.nɛ/ |
moutonnais /mu.tɔ.nɛ/ |
moutonnait /mu.tɔ.nɛ/ |
moutonnions /mu.tɔ.njɔ̃/ |
moutonniez /mu.tɔ.nje/ |
moutonnaient /mu.tɔ.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | moutonnai /mu.tɔ.ne/ |
moutonnas /mu.tɔ.na/ |
moutonna /mu.tɔ.na/ |
moutonnâmes /mu.tɔ.nam/ |
moutonnâtes /mu.tɔ.nat/ |
moutonnèrent /mu.tɔ.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | moutonnerai /mu.tɔn.ʁe/ |
moutonneras /mu.tɔn.ʁa/ |
moutonnera /mu.tɔn.ʁa/ |
moutonnerons /mu.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/ |
moutonnerez /mu.tɔn.ʁe/ |
moutonneront /mu.tɔn.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | moutonnerais /mu.tɔn.ʁɛ/ |
moutonnerais /mu.tɔn.ʁɛ/ |
moutonnerait /mu.tɔn.ʁɛ/ |
moutonnerions /mu.tɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
moutonneriez /mu.tɔ.nə.ʁje/ |
moutonneraient /mu.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 | moutonne /mu.tɔn/ |
moutonnes /mu.tɔn/ |
moutonne /mu.tɔn/ |
moutonnions /mu.tɔ.njɔ̃/ |
moutonniez /mu.tɔ.nje/ |
moutonnent /mu.tɔn/ |
| imperfect2 | moutonnasse /mu.tɔ.nas/ |
moutonnasses /mu.tɔ.nas/ |
moutonnât /mu.tɔ.na/ |
moutonnassions /mu.tɔ.na.sjɔ̃/ |
moutonnassiez /mu.tɔ.na.sje/ |
moutonnassent /mu.tɔ.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | moutonne /mu.tɔn/ |
— | moutonnons /mu.tɔ.nɔ̃/ |
moutonnez /mu.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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “moutonner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.