remuer
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁə.mɥe/
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Verb
remuer
- to move (lips, head, arms, etc.)
- to wag (a tail)
- 2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays [Small Country]:
- Le chien […] n'avait pas de queue, alors il remuait l'arrière-train pour signifier qu'il était content.
- The dog […] didn't have a tail, so it wagged its hindquarters to show it was happy.
- to twitch, flick
- to swing (one's arms)
- to move, shift (an object)
- to stir (a drink), stir up (sand etc.); to toss (salad), turn over (earth)
- to move (emotionally)
- (reflexive) to move (about)
Conjugation
Conjugation of remuer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | remuer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | remuant /ʁə.mɥɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | remué /ʁə.mɥe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | remue /ʁə.my/ |
remues /ʁə.my/ |
remue /ʁə.my/ |
remuons /ʁə.mɥɔ̃/ |
remuez /ʁə.mɥe/ |
remuent /ʁə.my/ |
| imperfect | remuais /ʁə.mɥɛ/ |
remuais /ʁə.mɥɛ/ |
remuait /ʁə.mɥɛ/ |
remuions /ʁə.my.jɔ̃/ |
remuiez /ʁə.my.je/ |
remuaient /ʁə.mɥɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | remuai /ʁə.mɥe/ |
remuas /ʁə.mɥa/ |
remua /ʁə.mɥa/ |
remuâmes /ʁə.mɥam/ |
remuâtes /ʁə.mɥat/ |
remuèrent /ʁə.mɥɛʁ/ | |
| future | remuerai /ʁə.my.ʁe/ |
remueras /ʁə.my.ʁa/ |
remuera /ʁə.my.ʁa/ |
remuerons /ʁə.my.ʁɔ̃/ |
remuerez /ʁə.my.ʁe/ |
remueront /ʁə.my.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | remuerais /ʁə.my.ʁɛ/ |
remuerais /ʁə.my.ʁɛ/ |
remuerait /ʁə.my.ʁɛ/ |
remuerions /ʁə.my.ʁjɔ̃/ |
remueriez /ʁə.my.ʁje/ |
remueraient /ʁə.my.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 | remue /ʁə.my/ |
remues /ʁə.my/ |
remue /ʁə.my/ |
remuions /ʁə.my.jɔ̃/ |
remuiez /ʁə.my.je/ |
remuent /ʁə.my/ |
| imperfect2 | remuasse /ʁə.mɥas/ |
remuasses /ʁə.mɥas/ |
remuât /ʁə.mɥa/ |
remuassions /ʁə.mɥa.sjɔ̃/ |
remuassiez /ʁə.mɥa.sje/ |
remuassent /ʁə.mɥas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | remue /ʁə.my/ |
— | remuons /ʁə.mɥɔ̃/ |
remuez /ʁə.mɥe/ |
— | |
| 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
- “remuer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.