mesurer
French
Etymology
From Old French mesurer, from Late Latin mēnsūrāre, present active infinitive of mēnsūrō, from Latin mēnsūra.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mə.zy.ʁe/
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Verb
mesurer
- (intransitive) To measure
- Il mesure 1,81 mètres
- He measures 1.81 metres
- (transitive) To measure
Conjugation
Conjugation of mesurer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| present participle | mesurant /mə.zy.ʁɑ̃/ | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| past participle | mesuré /mə.zy.ʁe/ | ||||||
| infinitive | |||||||
| simple | mesurer | ||||||
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| gerund1 | |||||||
| simple | mesurant /mə.zy.ʁɑ̃/ | ||||||
| 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 | mesure /mə.zyʁ/ |
mesures /mə.zyʁ/ |
mesure /mə.zyʁ/ |
mesurons /mə.zy.ʁɔ̃/ |
mesurez /mə.zy.ʁe/ |
mesurent /mə.zyʁ/ |
| imperfect | mesurais /mə.zy.ʁɛ/ |
mesurais /mə.zy.ʁɛ/ |
mesurait /mə.zy.ʁɛ/ |
mesurions /mə.zy.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mesuriez /mə.zy.ʁje/ |
mesuraient /mə.zy.ʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | mesurai /mə.zy.ʁe/ |
mesuras /mə.zy.ʁa/ |
mesura /mə.zy.ʁa/ |
mesurâmes /mə.zy.ʁam/ |
mesurâtes /mə.zy.ʁat/ |
mesurèrent /mə.zy.ʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | mesurerai /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁe/ |
mesureras /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁa/ |
mesurera /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁa/ |
mesurerons /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
mesurerez /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁe/ |
mesureront /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | mesurerais /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
mesurerais /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
mesurerait /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁɛ/ |
mesurerions /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mesureriez /mə.zy.ʁə.ʁje/ |
mesureraient /mə.zy.ʁə.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 | mesure /mə.zyʁ/ |
mesures /mə.zyʁ/ |
mesure /mə.zyʁ/ |
mesurions /mə.zy.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mesuriez /mə.zy.ʁje/ |
mesurent /mə.zyʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | mesurasse /mə.zy.ʁas/ |
mesurasses /mə.zy.ʁas/ |
mesurât /mə.zy.ʁa/ |
mesurassions /mə.zy.ʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
mesurassiez /mə.zy.ʁa.sje/ |
mesurassent /mə.zy.ʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | mesure /mə.zyʁ/ |
— | mesurons /mə.zy.ʁɔ̃/ |
mesurez /mə.zy.ʁe/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
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Further reading
- “mesurer” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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