montrer
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French monstrer, from Old French monstrer, semi-learned form of older moustrer, mostrer, from Latin mōnstrāre. Cognate with Spanish mostrar, Italian mostrare, English muster.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɔ̃.tʁe/
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Verb
montrer
- to show
- Montre-le-moi.
- Show it to me.
- 2018, Zaz, Résigne-moi:
- Je rêve de plus me juger, car la vie me montre ce que je dois affronter.
- I dream of judging myself more, because life shows me what I must face.
- (reflexive) to display, to demonstrate one's characteristics
Conjugation
Conjugation of montrer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | montrer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | montrant /mɔ̃.tʁɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | montré /mɔ̃.tʁe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | montre /mɔ̃tʁ/ |
montres /mɔ̃tʁ/ |
montre /mɔ̃tʁ/ |
montrons /mɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
montrez /mɔ̃.tʁe/ |
montrent /mɔ̃tʁ/ |
| imperfect | montrais /mɔ̃.tʁɛ/ |
montrais /mɔ̃.tʁɛ/ |
montrait /mɔ̃.tʁɛ/ |
montrions /mɔ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
montriez /mɔ̃.tʁi.je/ |
montraient /mɔ̃.tʁɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | montrai /mɔ̃.tʁe/ |
montras /mɔ̃.tʁa/ |
montra /mɔ̃.tʁa/ |
montrâmes /mɔ̃.tʁam/ |
montrâtes /mɔ̃.tʁat/ |
montrèrent /mɔ̃.tʁɛʁ/ | |
| future | montrerai /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁe/ |
montreras /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁa/ |
montrera /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁa/ |
montrerons /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/ |
montrerez /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁe/ |
montreront /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | montrerais /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
montrerais /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
montrerait /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁɛ/ |
montrerions /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
montreriez /mɔ̃.tʁə.ʁje/ |
montreraient /mɔ̃.tʁə.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 | montre /mɔ̃tʁ/ |
montres /mɔ̃tʁ/ |
montre /mɔ̃tʁ/ |
montrions /mɔ̃.tʁi.jɔ̃/ |
montriez /mɔ̃.tʁi.je/ |
montrent /mɔ̃tʁ/ |
| imperfect2 | montrasse /mɔ̃.tʁas/ |
montrasses /mɔ̃.tʁas/ |
montrât /mɔ̃.tʁa/ |
montrassions /mɔ̃.tʁa.sjɔ̃/ |
montrassiez /mɔ̃.tʁa.sje/ |
montrassent /mɔ̃.tʁas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | montre /mɔ̃tʁ/ |
— | montrons /mɔ̃.tʁɔ̃/ |
montrez /mɔ̃.tʁe/ |
— | |
| 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
- “montrer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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