gémir
See also: gemir
French
Etymology
From Old French gemir, borrowed from Latin gemere. Doublet of geindre, the properly native form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʒe.miʁ/
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Verb
gémir
- to moan; to groan
Conjugation
This is a regular verb of the second conjugation, like finir, choisir, and most other verbs with infinitives ending in -ir. One salient feature of this conjugation is the repeated appearance of the infix -iss-.
Conjugation of gémir (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | gémir | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | gémissant /ʒe.mi.sɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | gémi /ʒe.mi/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | gémis /ʒe.mi/ | gémis /ʒe.mi/ | gémit /ʒe.mi/ | gémissons /ʒe.mi.sɔ̃/ | gémissez /ʒe.mi.se/ | gémissent /ʒe.mis/ |
imperfect | gémissais /ʒe.mi.sɛ/ | gémissais /ʒe.mi.sɛ/ | gémissait /ʒe.mi.sɛ/ | gémissions /ʒe.mi.sjɔ̃/ | gémissiez /ʒe.mi.sje/ | gémissaient /ʒe.mi.sɛ/ | |
past historic2 | gémis /ʒe.mi/ | gémis /ʒe.mi/ | gémit /ʒe.mi/ | gémîmes /ʒe.mim/ | gémîtes /ʒe.mit/ | gémirent /ʒe.miʁ/ | |
future | gémirai /ʒe.mi.ʁe/ | gémiras /ʒe.mi.ʁa/ | gémira /ʒe.mi.ʁa/ | gémirons /ʒe.mi.ʁɔ̃/ | gémirez /ʒe.mi.ʁe/ | gémiront /ʒe.mi.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | gémirais /ʒe.mi.ʁɛ/ | gémirais /ʒe.mi.ʁɛ/ | gémirait /ʒe.mi.ʁɛ/ | gémirions /ʒe.mi.ʁjɔ̃/ | gémiriez /ʒe.mi.ʁje/ | gémiraient /ʒe.mi.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 | gémisse /ʒe.mis/ | gémisses /ʒe.mis/ | gémisse /ʒe.mis/ | gémissions /ʒe.mi.sjɔ̃/ | gémissiez /ʒe.mi.sje/ | gémissent /ʒe.mis/ |
imperfect2 | gémisse /ʒe.mis/ | gémisses /ʒe.mis/ | gémît /ʒe.mi/ | gémissions /ʒe.mi.sjɔ̃/ | gémissiez /ʒe.mi.sje/ | gémissent /ʒe.mis/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | gémis /ʒe.mi/ | — | gémissons /ʒe.mi.sɔ̃/ | gémissez /ʒe.mi.se/ | — | |
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
- gémissement
Further reading
- “gémir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- migre, migré