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malmener
malmener
French
Verb
malmener
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il malmène rather than *il malmene. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of malmener (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | malmener | avoir malmené | |||||
| gerund | en malmenant | en ayant malmené | |||||
| present participle | malmenant /mal.mə.nɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | malmené /mal.mə.ne/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | malmène /mal.mɛn/ |
malmènes /mal.mɛn/ |
malmène /mal.mɛn/ |
malmenons /mal.mə.nɔ̃/ |
malmenez /mal.mə.ne/ |
malmènent /mal.mɛn/ |
| imperfect | malmenais /mal.mə.nɛ/ |
malmenais /mal.mə.nɛ/ |
malmenait /mal.mə.nɛ/ |
malmenions /mal.mə.njɔ̃/ |
malmeniez /mal.mə.nje/ |
malmenaient /mal.mə.nɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | malmenai /mal.mə.ne/ |
malmenas /mal.mə.na/ |
malmena /mal.mə.na/ |
malmenâmes /mal.mə.nam/ |
malmenâtes /mal.mə.nat/ |
malmenèrent /mal.mə.nɛʁ/ |
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| future | malmènerai /mal.mɛn.ʁe/ |
malmèneras /mal.mɛn.ʁa/ |
malmènera /mal.mɛn.ʁa/ |
malmènerons /mal.mɛn.ʁɔ̃/ |
malmènerez /mal.mɛn.ʁe/ |
malmèneront /mal.mɛn.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | malmènerais /mal.mɛn.ʁɛ/ |
malmènerais /mal.mɛn.ʁɛ/ |
malmènerait /mal.mɛn.ʁɛ/ |
malmènerions /mal.mɛ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
malmèneriez /mal.mɛ.nə.ʁje/ |
malmèneraient /mal.mɛn.ʁɛ/ |
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| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior1 | Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il | que nous | que vous | qu’ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | malmène /mal.mɛn/ |
malmènes /mal.mɛn/ |
malmène /mal.mɛn/ |
malmenions /mal.mə.njɔ̃/ |
malmeniez /mal.mə.nje/ |
malmènent /mal.mɛn/ |
| imperfect1 |
malmenasse /mal.mə.nas/ |
malmenasses /mal.mə.nas/ |
malmenât /mal.mə.na/ |
malmenassions /mal.mə.na.sjɔ̃/ |
malmenassiez /mal.mə.na.sje/ |
malmenassent /mal.mə.nas/ |
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| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect1 | Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nous | vous | – | |
| — | malmène /mal.mɛn/ |
— | malmenons /mal.mə.nɔ̃/ |
malmenez /mal.mə.ne/ |
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