intimider
French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin intimidāre, present active infinitive of intimidō (“I make afraid”), from Latin in (“in”) + timidus (“afraid, timid”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.ti.mi.de/
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Verb
intimider
- (transitive) to intimidate
Conjugation
Conjugation of intimider (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | intimider | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | intimidant /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | intimidé /ɛ̃.ti.mi.de/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | intimide /ɛ̃.ti.mid/ | intimides /ɛ̃.ti.mid/ | intimide /ɛ̃.ti.mid/ | intimidons /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dɔ̃/ | intimidez /ɛ̃.ti.mi.de/ | intimident /ɛ̃.ti.mid/ |
| imperfect | intimidais /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dɛ/ | intimidais /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dɛ/ | intimidait /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dɛ/ | intimidions /ɛ̃.ti.mi.djɔ̃/ | intimidiez /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dje/ | intimidaient /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | intimidai /ɛ̃.ti.mi.de/ | intimidas /ɛ̃.ti.mi.da/ | intimida /ɛ̃.ti.mi.da/ | intimidâmes /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dam/ | intimidâtes /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dat/ | intimidèrent /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dɛʁ/ | |
| future | intimiderai /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁe/ | intimideras /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁa/ | intimidera /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁa/ | intimiderons /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁɔ̃/ | intimiderez /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁe/ | intimideront /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | intimiderais /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁɛ/ | intimiderais /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁɛ/ | intimiderait /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁɛ/ | intimiderions /ɛ̃.ti.mi.də.ʁjɔ̃/ | intimideriez /ɛ̃.ti.mi.də.ʁje/ | intimideraient /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | intimide /ɛ̃.ti.mid/ | intimides /ɛ̃.ti.mid/ | intimide /ɛ̃.ti.mid/ | intimidions /ɛ̃.ti.mi.djɔ̃/ | intimidiez /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dje/ | intimident /ɛ̃.ti.mid/ |
| imperfect2 | intimidasse /ɛ̃.ti.mi.das/ | intimidasses /ɛ̃.ti.mi.das/ | intimidât /ɛ̃.ti.mi.da/ | intimidassions /ɛ̃.ti.mi.da.sjɔ̃/ | intimidassiez /ɛ̃.ti.mi.da.sje/ | intimidassent /ɛ̃.ti.mi.das/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | intimide /ɛ̃.ti.mid/ | — | intimidons /ɛ̃.ti.mi.dɔ̃/ | intimidez /ɛ̃.ti.mi.de/ | — | |
| 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
- “intimider”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.