consommer
French
Etymology
From Latin cōnsummāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.sɔ.me/
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Verb
consommer
- to consume; to ingest
- à consommer avec modération ― consume in moderation
- (literary, archaic) to consummate; to complete; to fulfil
- Synonyms: achever, accomplir
- 1791, National Constituent Assembly, Constitution française, présentée au roi par l'Assemblée nationale, le 3 septembre 1791 [French constitution, presented to the King by the National Assembly on 3 September 1791], Dijon: Imprimerie de P. Causse, page 82:
- L'Assemblée nationale n'a plus rien à désirer en ce jour à jamais mémorable, où vous consommez dans son sein, par le plus solemnel engagement, l'acceptation de la royauté constitutionnelle.
- The National Assembly has nothing more to desire on this ever memorable day, on which you, in its midst, complete the acceptance of the constitutional kingship by the most solemn commitment.
Conjugation
Conjugation of consommer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | consommer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | consommant /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | consommé /kɔ̃.sɔ.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | consomme /kɔ̃.sɔm/ | consommes /kɔ̃.sɔm/ | consomme /kɔ̃.sɔm/ | consommons /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɔ̃/ | consommez /kɔ̃.sɔ.me/ | consomment /kɔ̃.sɔm/ |
| imperfect | consommais /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɛ/ | consommais /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɛ/ | consommait /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɛ/ | consommions /kɔ̃.sɔ.mjɔ̃/ | consommiez /kɔ̃.sɔ.mje/ | consommaient /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | consommai /kɔ̃.sɔ.me/ | consommas /kɔ̃.sɔ.ma/ | consomma /kɔ̃.sɔ.ma/ | consommâmes /kɔ̃.sɔ.mam/ | consommâtes /kɔ̃.sɔ.mat/ | consommèrent /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | consommerai /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁe/ | consommeras /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁa/ | consommera /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁa/ | consommerons /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁɔ̃/ | consommerez /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁe/ | consommeront /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | consommerais /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁɛ/ | consommerais /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁɛ/ | consommerait /kɔ̃.sɔm.ʁɛ/ | consommerions /kɔ̃.sɔ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ | consommeriez /kɔ̃.sɔ.mə.ʁje/ | consommeraient /kɔ̃.sɔm.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 | consomme /kɔ̃.sɔm/ | consommes /kɔ̃.sɔm/ | consomme /kɔ̃.sɔm/ | consommions /kɔ̃.sɔ.mjɔ̃/ | consommiez /kɔ̃.sɔ.mje/ | consomment /kɔ̃.sɔm/ |
| imperfect2 | consommasse /kɔ̃.sɔ.mas/ | consommasses /kɔ̃.sɔ.mas/ | consommât /kɔ̃.sɔ.ma/ | consommassions /kɔ̃.sɔ.ma.sjɔ̃/ | consommassiez /kɔ̃.sɔ.ma.sje/ | consommassent /kɔ̃.sɔ.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | consomme /kɔ̃.sɔm/ | — | consommons /kɔ̃.sɔ.mɔ̃/ | consommez /kɔ̃.sɔ.me/ | — | |
| 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). | |||||||
Derived terms
- consommateur
- consommation
Further reading
- “consommer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- commérons