meubler
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mœ.ble/
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Verb
meubler
- (transitive) to furnish
- 1908, Gaston Leroux, Le Mystère de la chambre jaune, 2009 ed., Wikisource, chap. 1
- Il faut vous dire encore, monsieur, que la «Chambre Jaune» est toute petite. Mademoiselle l’avait meublée d’un lit en fer assez large, d’une petite table, d’une table de nuit, d’une toilette et de deux chaises.
- — I must also tell you, sir, that the Yellow Room is quite small. Mademoiselle had furnished it with a fairly large iron bedstead, a small table, a night-commode, a washing-stand and two chairs. — 1908, anonymous, Margaret Jull Costa (ed.), The Mystery of the Yellow Room, 2003 ed., Dedalus, →ISBN
- Il faut vous dire encore, monsieur, que la «Chambre Jaune» est toute petite. Mademoiselle l’avait meublée d’un lit en fer assez large, d’une petite table, d’une table de nuit, d’une toilette et de deux chaises.
- 1908, Gaston Leroux, Le Mystère de la chambre jaune, 2009 ed., Wikisource, chap. 1
- (intransitive) to break the silence
Conjugation
Conjugation of meubler (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | meublant /mœ.blɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | meublé /mœ.ble/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | meubler | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | meublant /mœ.blɑ̃/ | ||||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | meuble /mœbl/ |
meubles /mœbl/ |
meuble /mœbl/ |
meublons /mœ.blɔ̃/ |
meublez /mœ.ble/ |
meublent /mœbl/ |
| imperfect | meublais /mœ.blɛ/ |
meublais /mœ.blɛ/ |
meublait /mœ.blɛ/ |
meublions /mœ.bli.jɔ̃/ |
meubliez /mœ.bli.je/ |
meublaient /mœ.blɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | meublai /mœ.ble/ |
meublas /mœ.bla/ |
meubla /mœ.bla/ |
meublâmes /mœ.blam/ |
meublâtes /mœ.blat/ |
meublèrent /mœ.blɛʁ/ | |
| future | meublerai /mœ.blə.ʁe/ |
meubleras /mœ.blə.ʁa/ |
meublera /mœ.blə.ʁa/ |
meublerons /mœ.blə.ʁɔ̃/ |
meublerez /mœ.blə.ʁe/ |
meubleront /mœ.blə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | meublerais /mœ.blə.ʁɛ/ |
meublerais /mœ.blə.ʁɛ/ |
meublerait /mœ.blə.ʁɛ/ |
meublerions /mœ.blə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
meubleriez /mœ.blə.ʁje/ |
meubleraient /mœ.blə.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 | meuble /mœbl/ |
meubles /mœbl/ |
meuble /mœbl/ |
meublions /mœ.bli.jɔ̃/ |
meubliez /mœ.bli.je/ |
meublent /mœbl/ |
| imperfect2 | meublasse /mœ.blas/ |
meublasses /mœ.blas/ |
meublât /mœ.bla/ |
meublassions /mœ.bla.sjɔ̃/ |
meublassiez /mœ.bla.sje/ |
meublassent /mœ.blas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | meuble /mœbl/ |
— | meublons /mœ.blɔ̃/ |
meublez /mœ.ble/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “meubler” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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