imminer
French
Etymology
Back-formation from imminent.
Pronunciation
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Verb
imminer
Conjugation
Conjugation of imminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | imminer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | imminant /i.mi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | imminé /i.mi.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | immine /i.min/ |
immines /i.min/ |
immine /i.min/ |
imminons /i.mi.nɔ̃/ |
imminez /i.mi.ne/ |
imminent /i.min/ |
| imperfect | imminais /i.mi.nɛ/ |
imminais /i.mi.nɛ/ |
imminait /i.mi.nɛ/ |
imminions /i.mi.njɔ̃/ |
imminiez /i.mi.nje/ |
imminaient /i.mi.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | imminai /i.mi.ne/ |
imminas /i.mi.na/ |
immina /i.mi.na/ |
imminâmes /i.mi.nam/ |
imminâtes /i.mi.nat/ |
imminèrent /i.mi.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | imminerai /i.min.ʁe/ |
immineras /i.min.ʁa/ |
imminera /i.min.ʁa/ |
imminerons /i.min.ʁɔ̃/ |
imminerez /i.min.ʁe/ |
immineront /i.min.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | imminerais /i.min.ʁɛ/ |
imminerais /i.min.ʁɛ/ |
imminerait /i.min.ʁɛ/ |
imminerions /i.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
immineriez /i.mi.nə.ʁje/ |
immineraient /i.min.ʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | immine /i.min/ |
immines /i.min/ |
immine /i.min/ |
imminions /i.mi.njɔ̃/ |
imminiez /i.mi.nje/ |
imminent /i.min/ |
| imperfect2 | imminasse /i.mi.nas/ |
imminasses /i.mi.nas/ |
imminât /i.mi.na/ |
imminassions /i.mi.na.sjɔ̃/ |
imminassiez /i.mi.na.sje/ |
imminassent /i.mi.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | immine /i.min/ |
— | imminons /i.mi.nɔ̃/ |
imminez /i.mi.ne/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Further reading
- “imminer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.