From Middle French musel (Modern French museau) + -er.
museler
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 | museler | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | muselant /myz.lɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | muselé /myz.le/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | muselle or musèle /my.zɛl/ |
muselles or musèles /my.zɛl/ |
muselle or musèle /my.zɛl/ |
muselons /myz.lɔ̃/ |
muselez /myz.le/ |
musellent or musèlent /my.zɛl/ |
| imperfect | muselais /myz.lɛ/ |
muselais /myz.lɛ/ |
muselait /myz.lɛ/ |
muselions /my.zə.ljɔ̃/ |
museliez /my.zə.lje/ |
muselaient /myz.lɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | muselai /myz.le/ |
muselas /myz.la/ |
musela /myz.la/ |
muselâmes /myz.lam/ |
muselâtes /myz.lat/ |
muselèrent /myz.lɛʁ/ | |
| future | musellerai or musèlerai /my.zɛl.ʁe/ |
muselleras or musèleras /my.zɛl.ʁa/ |
musellera or musèlera /my.zɛl.ʁa/ |
musellerons or musèlerons /my.zɛl.ʁɔ̃/ |
musellerez or musèlerez /my.zɛl.ʁe/ |
muselleront or musèleront /my.zɛl.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | musellerais or musèlerais /my.zɛl.ʁɛ/ |
musellerais or musèlerais /my.zɛl.ʁɛ/ |
musellerait or musèlerait /my.zɛl.ʁɛ/ |
musellerions or musèlerions /my.zɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /my.ze.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
muselleriez or musèleriez /my.zɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /my.ze.lə.ʁje/ |
muselleraient or musèleraient /my.zɛl.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 | muselle or musèle /my.zɛl/ |
muselles or musèles /my.zɛl/ |
muselle or musèle /my.zɛl/ |
muselions /my.zə.ljɔ̃/ |
museliez /my.zə.lje/ |
musellent or musèlent /my.zɛl/ |
| imperfect2 | muselasse /myz.las/ |
muselasses /myz.las/ |
muselât /myz.la/ |
muselassions /myz.la.sjɔ̃/ |
muselassiez /myz.la.sje/ |
muselassent /myz.las/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | muselle or musèle /my.zɛl/ |
— | muselons /myz.lɔ̃/ |
muselez /myz.le/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||