mousser
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mu.se/
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Verb
mousser
- to foam (produce foam)
Conjugation
Conjugation of mousser (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | mousser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | moussant /mu.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | moussé /mu.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | mousse /mus/ |
mousses /mus/ |
mousse /mus/ |
moussons /mu.sɔ̃/ |
moussez /mu.se/ |
moussent /mus/ |
| imperfect | moussais /mu.sɛ/ |
moussais /mu.sɛ/ |
moussait /mu.sɛ/ |
moussions /mu.sjɔ̃/ |
moussiez /mu.sje/ |
moussaient /mu.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | moussai /mu.se/ |
moussas /mu.sa/ |
moussa /mu.sa/ |
moussâmes /mu.sam/ |
moussâtes /mu.sat/ |
moussèrent /mu.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | mousserai /mu.sʁe/ |
mousseras /mu.sʁa/ |
moussera /mu.sʁa/ |
mousserons /mu.sʁɔ̃/ |
mousserez /mu.sʁe/ |
mousseront /mu.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | mousserais /mu.sʁɛ/ |
mousserais /mu.sʁɛ/ |
mousserait /mu.sʁɛ/ |
mousserions /mu.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mousseriez /mu.sə.ʁje/ |
mousseraient /mu.sʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | mousse /mus/ |
mousses /mus/ |
mousse /mus/ |
moussions /mu.sjɔ̃/ |
moussiez /mu.sje/ |
moussent /mus/ |
| imperfect2 | moussasse /mu.sas/ |
moussasses /mu.sas/ |
moussât /mu.sa/ |
moussassions /mu.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
moussassiez /mu.sa.sje/ |
moussassent /mu.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | mousse /mus/ |
— | moussons /mu.sɔ̃/ |
moussez /mu.se/ |
— | |
| 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
Descendants
- → Dutch: mousseren
- → German: moussieren
- → Russian: муссировать (mussirovatʹ)
- → Swedish: moussera
Further reading
- “mousser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.