Inherited from Middle French moucheter. By surface analysis, mouche + -eter.
moucheter
With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.
| infinitive | simple | moucheter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | mouchetant /muʃ.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | moucheté /muʃ.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | mouchette or mouchète /mu.ʃɛt/ |
mouchettes or mouchètes /mu.ʃɛt/ |
mouchette or mouchète /mu.ʃɛt/ |
mouchetons /muʃ.tɔ̃/ |
mouchetez /muʃ.te/ |
mouchettent or mouchètent /mu.ʃɛt/ |
| imperfect | mouchetais /muʃ.tɛ/ |
mouchetais /muʃ.tɛ/ |
mouchetait /muʃ.tɛ/ |
mouchetions /mu.ʃə.tjɔ̃/ |
mouchetiez /mu.ʃə.tje/ |
mouchetaient /muʃ.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | mouchetai /muʃ.te/ |
mouchetas /muʃ.ta/ |
moucheta /muʃ.ta/ |
mouchetâmes /muʃ.tam/ |
mouchetâtes /muʃ.tat/ |
mouchetèrent /muʃ.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | mouchetterai or mouchèterai /mu.ʃɛ.tʁe/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁe/ |
mouchetteras or mouchèteras /mu.ʃɛ.tʁa/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁa/ |
mouchettera or mouchètera /mu.ʃɛ.tʁa/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁa/ |
mouchetterons or mouchèterons /mu.ʃɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁɔ̃/ |
mouchetterez or mouchèterez /mu.ʃɛ.tʁe/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁe/ |
mouchetteront or mouchèteront /mu.ʃɛ.tʁɔ̃/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | mouchetterais or mouchèterais /mu.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁɛ/ |
mouchetterais or mouchèterais /mu.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁɛ/ |
mouchetterait or mouchèterait /mu.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁɛ/ |
mouchetterions or mouchèterions /mu.ʃɛ.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /mu.ʃe.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mouchetteriez or mouchèteriez /mu.ʃɛ.tə.ʁje/ or /mu.ʃe.tə.ʁje/ |
mouchetteraient or mouchèteraient /mu.ʃɛ.tʁɛ/ or /mu.ʃe.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | mouchette or mouchète /mu.ʃɛt/ |
mouchettes or mouchètes /mu.ʃɛt/ |
mouchette or mouchète /mu.ʃɛt/ |
mouchetions /mu.ʃə.tjɔ̃/ |
mouchetiez /mu.ʃə.tje/ |
mouchettent or mouchètent /mu.ʃɛt/ |
| imperfect2 | mouchetasse /muʃ.tas/ |
mouchetasses /muʃ.tas/ |
mouchetât /muʃ.ta/ |
mouchetassions /muʃ.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
mouchetassiez /muʃ.ta.sje/ |
mouchetassent /muʃ.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | mouchette or mouchète /mu.ʃɛt/ |
— | mouchetons /muʃ.tɔ̃/ |
mouchetez /muʃ.te/ |
— | |
| 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 , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||