mesurer
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French mesurer, from Late Latin mēnsūrāre, from Latin mēnsūra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mə.zy.ʁe/
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Verb
mesurer
- (intransitive) to measure
- Il mesure 1,81 mètres
- He measures 1.81 metres
- (transitive) to measure
Conjugation
Conjugation of mesurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | mesurer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | mesurant /mə.zy.ʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | mesuré /mə.zy.ʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | mesure /mə.zyʁ/ |
mesures /mə.zyʁ/ |
mesure /mə.zyʁ/ |
mesurons /mə.zy.ʁɔ̃/ |
mesurez /mə.zy.ʁe/ |
mesurent /mə.zyʁ/ |
| imperfect | mesurais /mə.zy.ʁɛ/ |
mesurais /mə.zy.ʁɛ/ |
mesurait /mə.zy.ʁɛ/ |
mesurions /mə.zy.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mesuriez /mə.zy.ʁje/ |
mesuraient /mə.zy.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | mesurai /mə.zy.ʁe/ |
mesuras /mə.zy.ʁa/ |
mesura /mə.zy.ʁa/ |
mesurâmes /mə.zy.ʁam/ |
mesurâtes /mə.zy.ʁat/ |
mesurèrent /mə.zy.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | mesurerai /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁe/ |
mesureras /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁa/ |
mesurera /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁa/ |
mesurerons /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
mesurerez /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁe/ |
mesureront /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | mesurerais /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
mesurerais /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
mesurerait /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
mesurerions /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mesureriez /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁje/ |
mesureraient /mə.zy.ʁə.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 | mesure /mə.zyʁ/ |
mesures /mə.zyʁ/ |
mesure /mə.zyʁ/ |
mesurions /mə.zy.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mesuriez /mə.zy.ʁje/ |
mesurent /mə.zyʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | mesurasse /mə.zy.ʁas/ |
mesurasses /mə.zy.ʁas/ |
mesurât /mə.zy.ʁa/ |
mesurassions /mə.zy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
mesurassiez /mə.zy.ʁa.sje/ |
mesurassent /mə.zy.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | mesure /mə.zyʁ/ |
— | mesurons /mə.zy.ʁɔ̃/ |
mesurez /mə.zy.ʁe/ |
— | |
| 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
Related terms
Further reading
- “mesurer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.