culminer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin culmino, culminare, from Latin culmen.
Pronunciation
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Verb
culminer
- (intransitive) to culminate (to come to an end)
- Le film culmine sur son meurtre.
- The film culminates in his murder.
- to culminate; reach the highest point
Conjugation
Conjugation of culminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | culminer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | culminant /kyl.mi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | culminé /kyl.mi.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | culmine /kyl.min/ | culmines /kyl.min/ | culmine /kyl.min/ | culminons /kyl.mi.nɔ̃/ | culminez /kyl.mi.ne/ | culminent /kyl.min/ |
| imperfect | culminais /kyl.mi.nɛ/ | culminais /kyl.mi.nɛ/ | culminait /kyl.mi.nɛ/ | culminions /kyl.mi.njɔ̃/ | culminiez /kyl.mi.nje/ | culminaient /kyl.mi.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | culminai /kyl.mi.ne/ | culminas /kyl.mi.na/ | culmina /kyl.mi.na/ | culminâmes /kyl.mi.nam/ | culminâtes /kyl.mi.nat/ | culminèrent /kyl.mi.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | culminerai /kyl.min.ʁe/ | culmineras /kyl.min.ʁa/ | culminera /kyl.min.ʁa/ | culminerons /kyl.min.ʁɔ̃/ | culminerez /kyl.min.ʁe/ | culmineront /kyl.min.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | culminerais /kyl.min.ʁɛ/ | culminerais /kyl.min.ʁɛ/ | culminerait /kyl.min.ʁɛ/ | culminerions /kyl.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ | culmineriez /kyl.mi.nə.ʁje/ | culmineraient /kyl.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 | culmine /kyl.min/ | culmines /kyl.min/ | culmine /kyl.min/ | culminions /kyl.mi.njɔ̃/ | culminiez /kyl.mi.nje/ | culminent /kyl.min/ |
| imperfect2 | culminasse /kyl.mi.nas/ | culminasses /kyl.mi.nas/ | culminât /kyl.mi.na/ | culminassions /kyl.mi.na.sjɔ̃/ | culminassiez /kyl.mi.na.sje/ | culminassent /kyl.mi.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | culmine /kyl.min/ | — | culminons /kyl.mi.nɔ̃/ | culminez /kyl.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). | |||||||
Related terms
- culmination
Descendants
- → German: kulminieren
Further reading
- “culminer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.