escrimer
French
Etymology
From Middle French escremir, from Old French escremir, escermir, eschirmir, from Frankish *skirmijan, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛs.kʁi.me/
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Verb
escrimer
- (dated) to fence, to do fencing (sport)
- (reflexive) to apply oneself, to exert oneself
Conjugation
Conjugation of escrimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | escrimer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | escrimant /ɛs.kʁi.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | escrimé /ɛs.kʁi.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | escrime /ɛs.kʁim/ | escrimes /ɛs.kʁim/ | escrime /ɛs.kʁim/ | escrimons /ɛs.kʁi.mɔ̃/ | escrimez /ɛs.kʁi.me/ | escriment /ɛs.kʁim/ |
| imperfect | escrimais /ɛs.kʁi.mɛ/ | escrimais /ɛs.kʁi.mɛ/ | escrimait /ɛs.kʁi.mɛ/ | escrimions /ɛs.kʁi.mjɔ̃/ | escrimiez /ɛs.kʁi.mje/ | escrimaient /ɛs.kʁi.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | escrimai /ɛs.kʁi.me/ | escrimas /ɛs.kʁi.ma/ | escrima /ɛs.kʁi.ma/ | escrimâmes /ɛs.kʁi.mam/ | escrimâtes /ɛs.kʁi.mat/ | escrimèrent /ɛs.kʁi.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | escrimerai /ɛs.kʁim.ʁe/ | escrimeras /ɛs.kʁim.ʁa/ | escrimera /ɛs.kʁim.ʁa/ | escrimerons /ɛs.kʁim.ʁɔ̃/ | escrimerez /ɛs.kʁim.ʁe/ | escrimeront /ɛs.kʁim.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | escrimerais /ɛs.kʁim.ʁɛ/ | escrimerais /ɛs.kʁim.ʁɛ/ | escrimerait /ɛs.kʁim.ʁɛ/ | escrimerions /ɛs.kʁi.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ | escrimeriez /ɛs.kʁi.mə.ʁje/ | escrimeraient /ɛs.kʁim.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 | escrime /ɛs.kʁim/ | escrimes /ɛs.kʁim/ | escrime /ɛs.kʁim/ | escrimions /ɛs.kʁi.mjɔ̃/ | escrimiez /ɛs.kʁi.mje/ | escriment /ɛs.kʁim/ |
| imperfect2 | escrimasse /ɛs.kʁi.mas/ | escrimasses /ɛs.kʁi.mas/ | escrimât /ɛs.kʁi.ma/ | escrimassions /ɛs.kʁi.ma.sjɔ̃/ | escrimassiez /ɛs.kʁi.ma.sje/ | escrimassent /ɛs.kʁi.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | escrime /ɛs.kʁim/ | — | escrimons /ɛs.kʁi.mɔ̃/ | escrimez /ɛs.kʁi.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). | |||||||
Related terms
- escrime
- escrimeur, escrimeuse
Further reading
- “escrimer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- merciers