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muer

French, verb/my.e/

muer is a French verb meaning “to moult (molt), to slough (sluff) (to shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, etc.)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Changer de poil, de plumes, de peau, etc., en parlant des animaux”.

What does muer mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to moult (molt), to slough (sluff) (to shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, etc.)

  2. 2

    to break (to become deeper at puberty)

  3. 3

    to change, to mutate, to transform

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Changer de poil, de plumes, de peau, etc., en parlant des animaux. 2. Changer de voix, qui devient plus grave, en parlant des garçons dans l'adolescence. 3. Changer.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of muer

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • muant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • mué participle past
  • mue first-person indicative present
  • mues indicative present second-person
  • muons first-person indicative plural
  • muez indicative plural present
  • muent indicative plural present
  • muais first-person imperfect indicative
  • muait imperfect indicative singular
  • muions first-person imperfect indicative
  • muiez imperfect indicative plural
  • muaient imperfect indicative plural
  • muai first-person historic indicative
  • muas historic indicative past
  • mua historic indicative past
  • muâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce muer?

  • /my.e/
  • /mɥe/
  • \mɥe\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to muer

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is muer in French?

muer appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).