mouvoir
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French mouvoir, from Old French movoir, moveir, from Latin movēre, from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mu.vwaʁ/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -waʁ
Verb
mouvoir
- (transitive, formal) to move
- (reflexive, se mouvoir, formal) to go around, to move about
Conjugation
Conjugation of mouvoir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | mouvoir | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | mouvant /mu.vɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | mû /my/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | meus /mø/ |
meus /mø/ |
meut /mø/ |
mouvons /mu.vɔ̃/ |
mouvez /mu.ve/ |
meuvent /mœv/ |
| imperfect | mouvais /mu.vɛ/ |
mouvais /mu.vɛ/ |
mouvait /mu.vɛ/ |
mouvions /mu.vjɔ̃/ |
mouviez /mu.vje/ |
mouvaient /mu.vɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | mus /my/ |
mus /my/ |
mut /my/ |
mûmes /mym/ |
mûtes /myt/ |
murent /myʁ/ | |
| future | mouvrai /mu.vʁe/ |
mouvras /mu.vʁa/ |
mouvra /mu.vʁa/ |
mouvrons /mu.vʁɔ̃/ |
mouvrez /mu.vʁe/ |
mouvront /mu.vʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | mouvrais /mu.vʁɛ/ |
mouvrais /mu.vʁɛ/ |
mouvrait /mu.vʁɛ/ |
mouvrions /mu.vʁi.jɔ̃/ |
mouvriez /mu.vʁi.je/ |
mouvraient /mu.vʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | meuve /mœv/ |
meuves /mœv/ |
meuve /mœv/ |
mouvions /mu.vjɔ̃/ |
mouviez /mu.vje/ |
meuvent /mœv/ |
| imperfect2 | musse /mys/ |
musses /mys/ |
mût /my/ |
mussions /my.sjɔ̃/ |
mussiez /my.sje/ |
mussent /mys/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | meus /mø/ |
— | mouvons /mu.vɔ̃/ |
mouvez /mu.ve/ |
— | |
| 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
Further reading
- “mouvoir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French movoir, moveir.
Verb
mouvoir
- to move
Descendants
- French: mouvoir