trémousser

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁe.mu.se/

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Verb

trémousser

1. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to jig, jiggle, wiggle

Conjugation

Conjugation of trémousser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	trémousser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trémoussant /tʁe.mu.sɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trémoussé /tʁe.mu.se/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trémousse /tʁe.mus/	trémousses /tʁe.mus/	trémousse /tʁe.mus/	trémoussons /tʁe.mu.sɔ̃/	trémoussez /tʁe.mu.se/	trémoussent /tʁe.mus/
	imperfect	trémoussais /tʁe.mu.sɛ/	trémoussais /tʁe.mu.sɛ/	trémoussait /tʁe.mu.sɛ/	trémoussions /tʁe.mu.sjɔ̃/	trémoussiez /tʁe.mu.sje/	trémoussaient /tʁe.mu.sɛ/
	past historic2	trémoussai /tʁe.mu.se/	trémoussas /tʁe.mu.sa/	trémoussa /tʁe.mu.sa/	trémoussâmes /tʁe.mu.sam/	trémoussâtes /tʁe.mu.sat/	trémoussèrent /tʁe.mu.sɛʁ/
	future	trémousserai /tʁe.mu.sʁe/	trémousseras /tʁe.mu.sʁa/	trémoussera /tʁe.mu.sʁa/	trémousserons /tʁe.mu.sʁɔ̃/	trémousserez /tʁe.mu.sʁe/	trémousseront /tʁe.mu.sʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trémousserais /tʁe.mu.sʁɛ/	trémousserais /tʁe.mu.sʁɛ/	trémousserait /tʁe.mu.sʁɛ/	trémousserions /tʁe.mu.sə.ʁjɔ̃/	trémousseriez /tʁe.mu.sə.ʁje/	trémousseraient /tʁe.mu.sʁɛ/
(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	trémousse /tʁe.mus/	trémousses /tʁe.mus/	trémousse /tʁe.mus/	trémoussions /tʁe.mu.sjɔ̃/	trémoussiez /tʁe.mu.sje/	trémoussent /tʁe.mus/
	imperfect2	trémoussasse /tʁe.mu.sas/	trémoussasses /tʁe.mu.sas/	trémoussât /tʁe.mu.sa/	trémoussassions /tʁe.mu.sa.sjɔ̃/	trémoussassiez /tʁe.mu.sa.sje/	trémoussassent /tʁe.mu.sas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trémousse /tʁe.mus/	—	trémoussons /tʁe.mu.sɔ̃/	trémoussez /tʁe.mu.se/	—
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).

Further reading

• “trémousser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.