mullir

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mollīre (“soften”). Compare Galician mulir.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /muˈʝiɾ/ [muˈʝiɾ]

• IPA^(key): /muˈʝiɾ/ [muˈʝiɾ] (most of Spain and Latin America)
• IPA^(key): /muˈʎiɾ/ [muˈʎiɾ] (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)
• IPA^(key): /muˈʃiɾ/ [muˈʃiɾ] (Buenos Aires and environs)
• IPA^(key): /muˈʒiɾ/ [muˈʒiɾ] (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)

• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: mu‧llir

Verb

mullir (first-person singular present mullo, first-person singular preterite mullí, past participle mullido)

1. (transitive) to soften

Conjugation

    Conjugation of mullir (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			mullir
gerund			mullendo
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		mullido		mullida
		plural		mullidos		mullidas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	mullo	mullestú mullísvos	mulle	mullimos	mullís	mullen
	imperfect	mullía	mullías	mullía	mullíamos	mullíais	mullían
	preterite	mullí	mulliste	mulló	mullimos	mullisteis	mulleron
	future	mulliré	mullirás	mullirá	mulliremos	mulliréis	mullirán
	conditional	mulliría	mullirías	mulliría	mulliríamos	mulliríais	mullirían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	mulla	mullastú mullásvos2	mulla	mullamos	mulláis	mullan
	imperfect (ra)	mullera	mulleras	mullera	mulléramos	mullerais	mulleran
	imperfect (se)	mullese	mulleses	mullese	mullésemos	mulleseis	mullesen
	future1	mullere	mulleres	mullere	mulléremos	mullereis	mulleren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		mulletú mullívos	mulla	mullamos	mullid	mullan
	negative		no mullas	no mulla	no mullamos	no mulláis	no mullan

¹Rare; now chiefly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tuteo-form for the present subjunctive.

Related terms

• mojar
• muelle

Further reading

• “mullir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024