mériter
See also: meriter
French
Etymology
From mérite, or borrowed from Latin meritāre, from meritus. Replaced inherited Old French merir, from merere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /me.ʁi.te/
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Conjugation
Conjugation of mériter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | mériter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | méritant /me.ʁi.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | mérité /me.ʁi.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | mérite /me.ʁit/ |
mérites /me.ʁit/ |
mérite /me.ʁit/ |
méritons /me.ʁi.tɔ̃/ |
méritez /me.ʁi.te/ |
méritent /me.ʁit/ |
| imperfect | méritais /me.ʁi.tɛ/ |
méritais /me.ʁi.tɛ/ |
méritait /me.ʁi.tɛ/ |
méritions /me.ʁi.tjɔ̃/ |
méritiez /me.ʁi.tje/ |
méritaient /me.ʁi.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | méritai /me.ʁi.te/ |
méritas /me.ʁi.ta/ |
mérita /me.ʁi.ta/ |
méritâmes /me.ʁi.tam/ |
méritâtes /me.ʁi.tat/ |
méritèrent /me.ʁi.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | mériterai /me.ʁi.tʁe/ |
mériteras /me.ʁi.tʁa/ |
méritera /me.ʁi.tʁa/ |
mériterons /me.ʁi.tʁɔ̃/ |
mériterez /me.ʁi.tʁe/ |
mériteront /me.ʁi.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | mériterais /me.ʁi.tʁɛ/ |
mériterais /me.ʁi.tʁɛ/ |
mériterait /me.ʁi.tʁɛ/ |
mériterions /me.ʁi.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
mériteriez /me.ʁi.tə.ʁje/ |
mériteraient /me.ʁi.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 | mérite /me.ʁit/ |
mérites /me.ʁit/ |
mérite /me.ʁit/ |
méritions /me.ʁi.tjɔ̃/ |
méritiez /me.ʁi.tje/ |
méritent /me.ʁit/ |
| imperfect2 | méritasse /me.ʁi.tas/ |
méritasses /me.ʁi.tas/ |
méritât /me.ʁi.ta/ |
méritassions /me.ʁi.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
méritassiez /me.ʁi.ta.sje/ |
méritassent /me.ʁi.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | mérite /me.ʁit/ |
— | méritons /me.ʁi.tɔ̃/ |
méritez /me.ʁi.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). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “mériter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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