mutiler

French

Etymology

From Latin mutilare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.ti.le/

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Verb

mutiler

1. to maim (to cause permanent loss)
2. to mutilate
3. to dismember (cut off a limb)

Conjugation

Conjugation of mutiler (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	mutiler
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mutilant /my.ti.lɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		mutilé /my.ti.le/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	mutile /my.til/	mutiles /my.til/	mutile /my.til/	mutilons /my.ti.lɔ̃/	mutilez /my.ti.le/	mutilent /my.til/
	imperfect	mutilais /my.ti.lɛ/	mutilais /my.ti.lɛ/	mutilait /my.ti.lɛ/	mutilions /my.ti.ljɔ̃/	mutiliez /my.ti.lje/	mutilaient /my.ti.lɛ/
	past historic2	mutilai /my.ti.le/	mutilas /my.ti.la/	mutila /my.ti.la/	mutilâmes /my.ti.lam/	mutilâtes /my.ti.lat/	mutilèrent /my.ti.lɛʁ/
	future	mutilerai /my.til.ʁe/	mutileras /my.til.ʁa/	mutilera /my.til.ʁa/	mutilerons /my.til.ʁɔ̃/	mutilerez /my.til.ʁe/	mutileront /my.til.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	mutilerais /my.til.ʁɛ/	mutilerais /my.til.ʁɛ/	mutilerait /my.til.ʁɛ/	mutilerions /my.ti.lə.ʁjɔ̃/	mutileriez /my.ti.lə.ʁje/	mutileraient /my.til.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	mutile /my.til/	mutiles /my.til/	mutile /my.til/	mutilions /my.ti.ljɔ̃/	mutiliez /my.ti.lje/	mutilent /my.til/
	imperfect2	mutilasse /my.ti.las/	mutilasses /my.ti.las/	mutilât /my.ti.la/	mutilassions /my.ti.la.sjɔ̃/	mutilassiez /my.ti.la.sje/	mutilassent /my.ti.las/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	mutile /my.til/	—	mutilons /my.ti.lɔ̃/	mutilez /my.ti.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

• mutilation

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

mutiler

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of mutilō