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moisir
moisir
French
Verb
moisir
- (ergative) (to cause) to go mouldy
- (informal) to hang around, to gather dust
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of moisir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
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| infinitive | moisir | avoir moisi | |||||
| gerund | en moisissant | en ayant moisi | |||||
| present participle | moisissant /mwa.zi.sɑ̃/ |
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| past participle | moisi /mwa.zi/ |
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| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il | nous | vous | ils | |
| simple tenses |
present | moisis /mwa.zi/ |
moisis /mwa.zi/ |
moisit /mwa.zi/ |
moisissons /mwa.zi.sɔ̃/ |
moisissez /mwa.zi.se/ |
moisissent /mwa.zis/ |
| imperfect | moisissais /mwa.zi.sɛ/ |
moisissais /mwa.zi.sɛ/ |
moisissait /mwa.zi.sɛ/ |
moisissions /mwa.zi.sjɔ̃/ |
moisissiez /mwa.zi.sje/ |
moisissaient /mwa.zi.sɛ/ |
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| past historic1 | moisis /mwa.zi/ |
moisis /mwa.zi/ |
moisit /mwa.zi/ |
moisîmes /mwa.zim/ |
moisîtes /mwa.zit/ |
moisirent /mwa.ziʁ/ |
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| future | moisirai /mwa.zi.ʁe/ |
moisiras /mwa.zi.ʁa/ |
moisira /mwa.zi.ʁa/ |
moisirons /mwa.zi.ʁɔ̃/ |
moisirez /mwa.zi.ʁe/ |
moisiront /mwa.zi.ʁɔ̃/ |
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| conditional | moisirais /mwa.zi.ʁɛ/ |
moisirais /mwa.zi.ʁɛ/ |
moisirait /mwa.zi.ʁɛ/ |
moisirions /mwa.zi.ʁjɔ̃/ |
moisiriez /mwa.zi.ʁje/ |
moisiraient /mwa.zi.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 | moisisse /mwa.zis/ |
moisisses /mwa.zis/ |
moisisse /mwa.zis/ |
moisissions /mwa.zi.sjɔ̃/ |
moisissiez /mwa.zi.sje/ |
moisissent /mwa.zis/ |
| imperfect1 |
moisisse /mwa.zis/ |
moisisses /mwa.zis/ |
moisît /mwa.zi/ |
moisissions /mwa.zi.sjɔ̃/ |
moisissiez /mwa.zi.sje/ |
moisissent /mwa.zis/ |
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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 | – | |
| — | moisis /mwa.zi/ |
— | moisissons /mwa.zi.sɔ̃/ |
moisissez /mwa.zi.se/ |
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