miroiter
French
Etymology
From miroir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.ʁwa.te/
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Verb
miroiter
Conjugation
Conjugation of miroiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | miroiter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | miroitant /mi.ʁwa.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | miroité /mi.ʁwa.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | miroite /mi.ʁwat/ |
miroites /mi.ʁwat/ |
miroite /mi.ʁwat/ |
miroitons /mi.ʁwa.tɔ̃/ |
miroitez /mi.ʁwa.te/ |
miroitent /mi.ʁwat/ |
| imperfect | miroitais /mi.ʁwa.tɛ/ |
miroitais /mi.ʁwa.tɛ/ |
miroitait /mi.ʁwa.tɛ/ |
miroitions /mi.ʁwa.tjɔ̃/ |
miroitiez /mi.ʁwa.tje/ |
miroitaient /mi.ʁwa.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | miroitai /mi.ʁwa.te/ |
miroitas /mi.ʁwa.ta/ |
miroita /mi.ʁwa.ta/ |
miroitâmes /mi.ʁwa.tam/ |
miroitâtes /mi.ʁwa.tat/ |
miroitèrent /mi.ʁwa.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | miroiterai /mi.ʁwa.tʁe/ |
miroiteras /mi.ʁwa.tʁa/ |
miroitera /mi.ʁwa.tʁa/ |
miroiterons /mi.ʁwa.tʁɔ̃/ |
miroiterez /mi.ʁwa.tʁe/ |
miroiteront /mi.ʁwa.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | miroiterais /mi.ʁwa.tʁɛ/ |
miroiterais /mi.ʁwa.tʁɛ/ |
miroiterait /mi.ʁwa.tʁɛ/ |
miroiterions /mi.ʁwa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
miroiteriez /mi.ʁwa.tə.ʁje/ |
miroiteraient /mi.ʁwa.tʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | miroite /mi.ʁwat/ |
miroites /mi.ʁwat/ |
miroite /mi.ʁwat/ |
miroitions /mi.ʁwa.tjɔ̃/ |
miroitiez /mi.ʁwa.tje/ |
miroitent /mi.ʁwat/ |
| imperfect2 | miroitasse /mi.ʁwa.tas/ |
miroitasses /mi.ʁwa.tas/ |
miroitât /mi.ʁwa.ta/ |
miroitassions /mi.ʁwa.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
miroitassiez /mi.ʁwa.ta.sje/ |
miroitassent /mi.ʁwa.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | miroite /mi.ʁwat/ |
— | miroitons /mi.ʁwa.tɔ̃/ |
miroitez /mi.ʁwa.te/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “miroiter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.