miroiter
French
Etymology
From miroir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi.ʁwa.te/
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Verb
miroiter
- to sparkle, gleam
- 1888, Camille Flammarion, “De Venise aux Étoiles”, in Rêves étoilés:
- C'était à Venise. L'antique palais ducal des Speranzi avait ses hautes fenêtres ouvertes sur le grand canal, l'astre des nuits faisait miroiter sur leas eaux un sillon de paillettes d'argent, et l'immensité du ciel se développait au delà des coupoles et des tours.
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Conjugation
Conjugation of miroiter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | miroiter | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | miroitant /mi.ʁwa.tɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | miroité /mi.ʁwa.te/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | miroite /mi.ʁwat/ |
miroites /mi.ʁwat/ |
miroite /mi.ʁwat/ |
miroitons /mi.ʁwa.tɔ̃/ |
miroitez /mi.ʁwa.te/ |
miroitent /mi.ʁwat/ |
| imperfect | miroitais /mi.ʁwa.tɛ/ |
miroitais /mi.ʁwa.tɛ/ |
miroitait /mi.ʁwa.tɛ/ |
miroitions /mi.ʁwa.tjɔ̃/ |
miroitiez /mi.ʁwa.tje/ |
miroitaient /mi.ʁwa.tɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | miroitai /mi.ʁwa.te/ |
miroitas /mi.ʁwa.ta/ |
miroita /mi.ʁwa.ta/ |
miroitâmes /mi.ʁwa.tam/ |
miroitâtes /mi.ʁwa.tat/ |
miroitèrent /mi.ʁwa.tɛʁ/ | |
| future | miroiterai /mi.ʁwa.tʁe/ |
miroiteras /mi.ʁwa.tʁa/ |
miroitera /mi.ʁwa.tʁa/ |
miroiterons /mi.ʁwa.tʁɔ̃/ |
miroiterez /mi.ʁwa.tʁe/ |
miroiteront /mi.ʁwa.tʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | miroiterais /mi.ʁwa.tʁɛ/ |
miroiterais /mi.ʁwa.tʁɛ/ |
miroiterait /mi.ʁwa.tʁɛ/ |
miroiterions /mi.ʁwa.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
miroiteriez /mi.ʁwa.tə.ʁje/ |
miroiteraient /mi.ʁwa.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 | miroite /mi.ʁwat/ |
miroites /mi.ʁwat/ |
miroite /mi.ʁwat/ |
miroitions /mi.ʁwa.tjɔ̃/ |
miroitiez /mi.ʁwa.tje/ |
miroitent /mi.ʁwat/ |
| imperfect2 | miroitasse /mi.ʁwa.tas/ |
miroitasses /mi.ʁwa.tas/ |
miroitât /mi.ʁwa.ta/ |
miroitassions /mi.ʁwa.ta.sjɔ̃/ |
miroitassiez /mi.ʁwa.ta.sje/ |
miroitassent /mi.ʁwa.tas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | miroite /mi.ʁwat/ |
— | miroitons /mi.ʁwa.tɔ̃/ |
miroitez /mi.ʁwa.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “miroiter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012