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mendier: Conjugation

The mendier conjugation tables below show how to form the French verb mendier according to tense and person. To listen to the pronunciation of a given tense of mendier, click on the loudspeaker icon at the bottom of the table. See the notes on the conjugation of mendier at the end of this page.

Present	Perfect
je mendie tu mendies il/elle mendie nous mendions vous mendiez ils/elles mendient Pronounce these verb forms	j' ai mendié tu as mendié il/elle a mendié nous avons mendié vous avez mendié ils/elles ont mendié Pronounce these verb forms
Imperfect	Pluperfect
je mendiais tu mendiais il/elle mendiait nous mendiions vous mendiiez ils/elles mendiaient Pronounce these verb forms	j' avais mendié tu avais mendié il/elle avait mendié nous avions mendié vous aviez mendié ils/elles avaient mendié Pronounce these verb forms
Future	Future-perfect
je mendierai tu mendieras il/elle mendiera nous mendierons vous mendierez ils/elles mendieront Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurai mendié tu auras mendié il/elle aura mendié nous aurons mendié vous aurez mendié ils/elles auront mendié Pronounce these verb forms
Conditional	Conditional perfect
je mendierais tu mendierais il/elle mendierait nous mendierions vous mendieriez ils/elles mendieraient Pronounce these verb forms	j' aurais mendié tu aurais mendié il/elle aurait mendié nous aurions mendié vous auriez mendié ils/elles auraient mendié Pronounce these verb forms
Present subjunctive	Perfect subjunctive
je mendie tu mendies il/elle mendie nous mendiions vous mendiiez ils/elles mendient Pronounce these verb forms	j' aie mendié tu aies mendié il/elle ait mendié nous ayons mendié vous ayez mendié ils/elles aient mendié Pronounce these verb forms
Past historic	Past anterior
je mendiai tu mendias il/elle mendia nous mendiâmes vous mendiâtes ils/elles mendièrent Pronounce these verb forms	j' eus mendié tu eus mendié il/elle eut mendié nous eûmes mendié vous eûtes mendié ils/elles eurent mendié Pronounce these verb forms

This verb follows the so-called regular -er verb pattern, the pattern followed by vast majority of verbs of the language, and by practically all new verbs entering the language.

The regular -er pattern has the following defining features:

• No characteristic consonant (contrast, for example, with verbs following the finir or dormir patterns, which have a characteristic -ss- and -m- in all forms but the present tense singular);
• No vowel change in the stem, other than where necessary to respect general patterns of French phonology (e.g. see préférer)²;
• Past participle in -é¹.

1. Outside the regular -er paradigm, only aller, être and naître have past participles ending in -é.
2. Many other verb patterns, except verbs of the finir type plus a few other patterns, have an irregular vowel change, e.g. boire > je bois vs nous buvons. See the grammar section on irregular verb patterns in French for a list of the different vowel changes.