monder

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mundāre, mundō (“clean”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ̃.de/

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Verb

monder

1. to blanch (vegetables)

   Synonym: émonder

2. to clean or purify

Conjugation

Conjugation of monder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	monder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	mondant /mɔ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		mondé /mɔ̃.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	monde /mɔ̃d/	mondes /mɔ̃d/	monde /mɔ̃d/	mondons /mɔ̃.dɔ̃/	mondez /mɔ̃.de/	mondent /mɔ̃d/
	imperfect	mondais /mɔ̃.dɛ/	mondais /mɔ̃.dɛ/	mondait /mɔ̃.dɛ/	mondions /mɔ̃.djɔ̃/	mondiez /mɔ̃.dje/	mondaient /mɔ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	mondai /mɔ̃.de/	mondas /mɔ̃.da/	monda /mɔ̃.da/	mondâmes /mɔ̃.dam/	mondâtes /mɔ̃.dat/	mondèrent /mɔ̃.dɛʁ/
	future	monderai /mɔ̃.dʁe/	monderas /mɔ̃.dʁa/	mondera /mɔ̃.dʁa/	monderons /mɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/	monderez /mɔ̃.dʁe/	monderont /mɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	monderais /mɔ̃.dʁɛ/	monderais /mɔ̃.dʁɛ/	monderait /mɔ̃.dʁɛ/	monderions /mɔ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/	monderiez /mɔ̃.də.ʁje/	monderaient /mɔ̃.dʁɛ/
(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	monde /mɔ̃d/	mondes /mɔ̃d/	monde /mɔ̃d/	mondions /mɔ̃.djɔ̃/	mondiez /mɔ̃.dje/	mondent /mɔ̃d/
	imperfect2	mondasse /mɔ̃.das/	mondasses /mɔ̃.das/	mondât /mɔ̃.da/	mondassions /mɔ̃.da.sjɔ̃/	mondassiez /mɔ̃.da.sje/	mondassent /mɔ̃.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	monde /mɔ̃d/	—	mondons /mɔ̃.dɔ̃/	mondez /mɔ̃.de/	—
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

• émonder
• immonde

Further reading

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