mesuriez

Mesuriez is the second-person plural imperfect form of the French verb mesurer, meaning you were measuring or you used to measure. It is used in narratives and descriptions to indicate an ongoing or repeated action in the past by the group addressed as vous. The form contrasts with mesurez (present) and mesuriez would be mistaken for a conditional form in isolation; the imperfect endings -iez, -ions, -ait, -ais, etc. apply to the stem mesur- in appropriate contexts.

In ordinary usage, mesuriez appears in phrases such as: lorsque vous mesuriez la pièce, vous notiez les dimensions, or autrefois, vous mesuriez les murs chaque semaine. It is typically paired with a passato prossimo or other past tenses to anchor the action in a larger narrative. The pronunciation in standard French is roughly me-zoo-ree-ay, with the final -iez yielding a sound similar to -je in many dialects.

Conjugation pattern: the stem mesur- takes the imperfect endings for all plural and singular persons in the imperfect: je mesurais, tu mesurais, il mesurait, nous mesurions, vous mesuriez, ils mesuraient. The verb mesurer itself derives from Old French mesurer, which in turn comes from Latin mensurare, related to mensura meaning measure. Related forms include mesurer (to measure) and mesure (a measurement or act of measuring).

Notes: mesuriez is a standard grammatical form and not a proper noun. It appears primarily in literary, historical, or instructional texts describing past measuring actions.