méduser
French
Etymology
From Méduse (“Medusa”) + -er. From Medusa's ability to turn people into stone via eye contact.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me.dy.ze/
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Verb
méduser
Conjugation
Conjugation of méduser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | méduser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | médusant /me.dy.zɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | médusé /me.dy.ze/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | méduse /me.dyz/ |
méduses /me.dyz/ |
méduse /me.dyz/ |
médusons /me.dy.zɔ̃/ |
médusez /me.dy.ze/ |
médusent /me.dyz/ |
| imperfect | médusais /me.dy.zɛ/ |
médusais /me.dy.zɛ/ |
médusait /me.dy.zɛ/ |
médusions /me.dy.zjɔ̃/ |
médusiez /me.dy.zje/ |
médusaient /me.dy.zɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | médusai /me.dy.ze/ |
médusas /me.dy.za/ |
médusa /me.dy.za/ |
médusâmes /me.dy.zam/ |
médusâtes /me.dy.zat/ |
médusèrent /me.dy.zɛʁ/ | |
| future | méduserai /me.dyz.ʁe/ |
méduseras /me.dyz.ʁa/ |
médusera /me.dyz.ʁa/ |
méduserons /me.dyz.ʁɔ̃/ |
méduserez /me.dyz.ʁe/ |
méduseront /me.dyz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | méduserais /me.dyz.ʁɛ/ |
méduserais /me.dyz.ʁɛ/ |
méduserait /me.dyz.ʁɛ/ |
méduserions /me.dy.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
méduseriez /me.dy.zə.ʁje/ |
méduseraient /me.dyz.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 | méduse /me.dyz/ |
méduses /me.dyz/ |
méduse /me.dyz/ |
médusions /me.dy.zjɔ̃/ |
médusiez /me.dy.zje/ |
médusent /me.dyz/ |
| imperfect2 | médusasse /me.dy.zas/ |
médusasses /me.dy.zas/ |
médusât /me.dy.za/ |
médusassions /me.dy.za.sjɔ̃/ |
médusassiez /me.dy.za.sje/ |
médusassent /me.dy.zas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | méduse /me.dyz/ |
— | médusons /me.dy.zɔ̃/ |
médusez /me.dy.ze/ |
— | |
| 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
- “méduser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.