mappliquerais

Mappliquerais is not a standard French word found in reputable dictionaries. It is commonly encountered as a misspelling or as a mistaken concatenation of elements in the reflexive verb form je m’appliquerais. In correct writing, the form would be je m’appliquerais, with a space and the apostrophe, reflecting the pronominal construction and the conditional mood.

Morphology and usage

The form arises from the pronominal verb s’appliquer, which means to apply oneself. In the conditional present, the first-person singular form is je m’appliquerais. The underlying verb stem is appliquer-, combined with the reflexive pronoun m’ before a vowel, yielding m’appliquerais. The ending -ais marks the first-person singular of the conditional in this class of verbs. This form is used to express a hypothetical or contingent action, e.g., Si j’avais plus de temps, je m’appliquerais à ce travail.

Orthography and common errors

Because of rapid or informal writing, some writers may drop the space and the apostrophe, producing mappliquerais. This is considered nonstandard in French orthography. Readers encountering mappliquerais should interpret it as a likely misspelling of je m’appliquerais and restore the conventional separation and punctuation if aiming for formal accuracy.

Related forms

Related verbs include appliquer (to apply) and s’appliquer (to apply oneself). Other reflexive forms in the conditional include tu t’appliquerais, il s’appliquerait, nous nous appliquerions, vous vous appliqueriez, and ils s’appliqueraient. Understanding the reflexive construction helps distinguish legitimate forms from erroneous concatenations.

See also

Appliquer, s’appliquer, French verb conjugation, conditionnel présent.