moucharder
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mu.ʃaʁ.de/
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Verb
moucharder
- to rat; to rat on
- 1924, Thomas Mann, Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain], volume 1 (overall work in German), Berlin: S. Fischer, page 569:
- „Il y a quelque chose dans cette branche de lettres humaines dite la médecine,“ sagte Hans Castorp, „qu’on appelle bouchement tuberculeux des vases de lymphe.“ „Ah! Tu as mouchardé, mon cher, on le voit bien.“
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to tell tales
Conjugation
Conjugation of moucharder (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | moucharder | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | mouchardant /mu.ʃaʁ.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | mouchardé /mu.ʃaʁ.de/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | moucharde /mu.ʃaʁd/ |
mouchardes /mu.ʃaʁd/ |
moucharde /mu.ʃaʁd/ |
mouchardons /mu.ʃaʁ.dɔ̃/ |
mouchardez /mu.ʃaʁ.de/ |
mouchardent /mu.ʃaʁd/ |
| imperfect | mouchardais /mu.ʃaʁ.dɛ/ |
mouchardais /mu.ʃaʁ.dɛ/ |
mouchardait /mu.ʃaʁ.dɛ/ |
mouchardions /mu.ʃaʁ.djɔ̃/ |
mouchardiez /mu.ʃaʁ.dje/ |
mouchardaient /mu.ʃaʁ.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | mouchardai /mu.ʃaʁ.de/ |
mouchardas /mu.ʃaʁ.da/ |
moucharda /mu.ʃaʁ.da/ |
mouchardâmes /mu.ʃaʁ.dam/ |
mouchardâtes /mu.ʃaʁ.dat/ |
mouchardèrent /mu.ʃaʁ.dɛʁ/ | |
| future | moucharderai /mu.ʃaʁ.də.ʁe/ |
moucharderas /mu.ʃaʁ.də.ʁa/ |
mouchardera /mu.ʃaʁ.də.ʁa/ |
moucharderons /mu.ʃaʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/ |
moucharderez /mu.ʃaʁ.də.ʁe/ |
moucharderont /mu.ʃaʁ.də.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | moucharderais /mu.ʃaʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
moucharderais /mu.ʃaʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
moucharderait /mu.ʃaʁ.də.ʁɛ/ |
moucharderions /mu.ʃaʁ.də.ʁjɔ̃/ |
moucharderiez /mu.ʃaʁ.də.ʁje/ |
moucharderaient /mu.ʃaʁ.də.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 | moucharde /mu.ʃaʁd/ |
mouchardes /mu.ʃaʁd/ |
moucharde /mu.ʃaʁd/ |
mouchardions /mu.ʃaʁ.djɔ̃/ |
mouchardiez /mu.ʃaʁ.dje/ |
mouchardent /mu.ʃaʁd/ |
| imperfect2 | mouchardasse /mu.ʃaʁ.das/ |
mouchardasses /mu.ʃaʁ.das/ |
mouchardât /mu.ʃaʁ.da/ |
mouchardassions /mu.ʃaʁ.da.sjɔ̃/ |
mouchardassiez /mu.ʃaʁ.da.sje/ |
mouchardassent /mu.ʃaʁ.das/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | moucharde /mu.ʃaʁd/ |
— | mouchardons /mu.ʃaʁ.dɔ̃/ |
mouchardez /mu.ʃaʁ.de/ |
— | |
| 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
- “moucharder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.