museler

French

Etymology

From Middle French musel (Modern French museau) + -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myz.le/

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Verb

museler

1. (transitive) to muzzle (attach a muzzle onto)
2. (transitive, figuratively) to silence (prevent or forbid someone from speaking)

Conjugation

With the exception of appeler, jeter and their derived verbs, all verbs that used to double the consonants can now also be conjugated like amener.

Conjugation of museler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	museler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	muselant /myz.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		muselé /myz.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	muselle or musèle /my.zɛl/	muselles or musèles /my.zɛl/	muselle or musèle /my.zɛl/	muselons /myz.lɔ̃/	muselez /myz.le/	musellent or musèlent /my.zɛl/
	imperfect	muselais /myz.lɛ/	muselais /myz.lɛ/	muselait /myz.lɛ/	muselions /my.zə.ljɔ̃/	museliez /my.zə.lje/	muselaient /myz.lɛ/
	past historic2	muselai /myz.le/	muselas /myz.la/	musela /myz.la/	muselâmes /myz.lam/	muselâtes /myz.lat/	muselèrent /myz.lɛʁ/
	future	musellerai or musèlerai /my.zɛl.ʁe/	muselleras or musèleras /my.zɛl.ʁa/	musellera or musèlera /my.zɛl.ʁa/	musellerons or musèlerons /my.zɛl.ʁɔ̃/	musellerez or musèlerez /my.zɛl.ʁe/	muselleront or musèleront /my.zɛl.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	musellerais or musèlerais /my.zɛl.ʁɛ/	musellerais or musèlerais /my.zɛl.ʁɛ/	musellerait or musèlerait /my.zɛl.ʁɛ/	musellerions or musèlerions /my.zɛ.lə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /my.ze.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	muselleriez or musèleriez /my.zɛ.lə.ʁje/ or /my.ze.lə.ʁje/	muselleraient or musèleraient /my.zɛl.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	muselle or musèle /my.zɛl/	muselles or musèles /my.zɛl/	muselle or musèle /my.zɛl/	muselions /my.zə.ljɔ̃/	museliez /my.zə.lje/	musellent or musèlent /my.zɛl/
	imperfect2	muselasse /myz.las/	muselasses /myz.las/	muselât /myz.la/	muselassions /myz.la.sjɔ̃/	muselassiez /myz.la.sje/	muselassent /myz.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	muselle or musèle /my.zɛl/	—	muselons /myz.lɔ̃/	muselez /myz.le/	—
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).

Related terms

• muselière
• museleur
• musellement
• emmuseler

Further reading

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

Anagrams

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