mouiller

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French moillier, from Vulgar Latin *molliāre (soak), a verb based on Latin mollis (soft). Compare Occitan molhar.

Pronunciation

Verb

mouiller

  1. (transitive) to make wet, get wet, dampen, moisten
  2. (transitive, cooking) to water (down)
  3. (transitive, nautical) to cast, drop (anchor)
  4. (transitive, linguistics) to palatalize
  5. (intransitive, nautical) to anchor, lie at anchor
    • 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, chapter IX, in Tristes Tropiques, Plon, published 1993, →ISBN, page 90; republished as John & Doreen Weightman, transl., Tristes Tropiques, Penguin, 2011, →ISBN:
      Le 10 novembre, Villegaignon mouille dans la baie de Guanabara, où Français et Portugais se disputaient depuis plusieurs années les faveurs des indigènes.
      — On November 10th, Villegaignon anchored in the bay of Guanabara, where for several years the French and the Portuguese had been vying with each other in wooing the natives.
  6. (intransitive, slang) to be so frightened as to piss oneself
  7. (intransitive, slang, sex) to be wet
  8. (impersonal, intransitive, Louisiana, Quebec) to rain
  9. (reflexive, informal) to stick one's neck out
    Tu ne te mouilles pas trop, à ce que je vois !
    You don't stick your neck out too much, from what I see!
    (literally, “you don't get too wet”)

Conjugation

More information infinitive, simple ...
infinitive simple mouiller
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple mouillant
/mu.jɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle mouillé
/mu.je/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)
present mouille
/muj/
mouilles
/muj/
mouille
/muj/
mouillons
/mu.jɔ̃/
mouillez
/mu.je/
mouillent
/muj/
imperfect mouillais
/mu.jɛ/
mouillais
/mu.jɛ/
mouillait
/mu.jɛ/
mouillions
/muj.jɔ̃/
mouilliez
/muj.je/
mouillaient
/mu.jɛ/
past historic2 mouillai
/mu.je/
mouillas
/mu.ja/
mouilla
/mu.ja/
mouillâmes
/mu.jam/
mouillâtes
/mu.jat/
mouillèrent
/mu.jɛʁ/
future mouillerai
/muj.ʁe/
mouilleras
/muj.ʁa/
mouillera
/muj.ʁa/
mouillerons
/muj.ʁɔ̃/
mouillerez
/muj.ʁe/
mouilleront
/muj.ʁɔ̃/
conditional mouillerais
/muj.ʁɛ/
mouillerais
/muj.ʁɛ/
mouillerait
/muj.ʁɛ/
mouillerions
/mu.jə.ʁjɔ̃/
mouilleriez
/mu.jə.ʁje/
mouilleraient
/muj.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 mouille
/muj/
mouilles
/muj/
mouille
/muj/
mouillions
/muj.jɔ̃/
mouilliez
/muj.je/
mouillent
/muj/
imperfect2 mouillasse
/mu.jas/
mouillasses
/mu.jas/
mouillât
/mu.ja/
mouillassions
/mu.ja.sjɔ̃/
mouillassiez
/mu.ja.sje/
mouillassent
/mu.jas/
(compound
tenses)
past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative tu nous vous
simple mouille
/muj/
mouillons
/mu.jɔ̃/
mouillez
/mu.je/
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:
past historic → present perfect
past anterior → pluperfect
imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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