parsemer
French
Etymology
From par + semer.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paʁ.sə.me/
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Verb
parsemer
- (transitive) to sprinkle, scatter, strew (de with)
- (transitive) to be scattered or strewn over
- Je regardais les astres qui parsemaient le ciel. I was watching the stars which were scattered across the sky.
Conjugation
This verb is conjugated mostly like the regular -er verbs (parler and chanter and so on), but the -e- /ə/ of the second-to-last syllable becomes -è- /ɛ/ when the next vowel is a silent or schwa -e-. For example, in the third-person singular present indicative, we have il parsème rather than *il parseme. Other verbs conjugated this way include lever and mener. Related but distinct conjugations include those of appeler and préférer.
Conjugation of parsemer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | parsemer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | parsemant /paʁ.sə.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | parsemé /paʁ.sə.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | parsème /paʁ.sɛm/ | parsèmes /paʁ.sɛm/ | parsème /paʁ.sɛm/ | parsemons /paʁ.sə.mɔ̃/ | parsemez /paʁ.sə.me/ | parsèment /paʁ.sɛm/ |
| imperfect | parsemais /paʁ.sə.mɛ/ | parsemais /paʁ.sə.mɛ/ | parsemait /paʁ.sə.mɛ/ | parsemions /paʁ.sə.mjɔ̃/ | parsemiez /paʁ.sə.mje/ | parsemaient /paʁ.sə.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | parsemai /paʁ.sə.me/ | parsemas /paʁ.sə.ma/ | parsema /paʁ.sə.ma/ | parsemâmes /paʁ.sə.mam/ | parsemâtes /paʁ.sə.mat/ | parsemèrent /paʁ.sə.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | parsèmerai /paʁ.sɛm.ʁe/ | parsèmeras /paʁ.sɛm.ʁa/ | parsèmera /paʁ.sɛm.ʁa/ | parsèmerons /paʁ.sɛm.ʁɔ̃/ | parsèmerez /paʁ.sɛm.ʁe/ | parsèmeront /paʁ.sɛm.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | parsèmerais /paʁ.sɛm.ʁɛ/ | parsèmerais /paʁ.sɛm.ʁɛ/ | parsèmerait /paʁ.sɛm.ʁɛ/ | parsèmerions /paʁ.sɛ.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /paʁ.se.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ | parsèmeriez /paʁ.sɛ.mə.ʁje/ or /paʁ.se.mə.ʁje/ | parsèmeraient /paʁ.sɛm.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 | parsème /paʁ.sɛm/ | parsèmes /paʁ.sɛm/ | parsème /paʁ.sɛm/ | parsemions /paʁ.sə.mjɔ̃/ | parsemiez /paʁ.sə.mje/ | parsèment /paʁ.sɛm/ |
| imperfect2 | parsemasse /paʁ.sə.mas/ | parsemasses /paʁ.sə.mas/ | parsemât /paʁ.sə.ma/ | parsemassions /paʁ.sə.ma.sjɔ̃/ | parsemassiez /paʁ.sə.ma.sje/ | parsemassent /paʁ.sə.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | parsème /paʁ.sɛm/ | — | parsemons /paʁ.sə.mɔ̃/ | parsemez /paʁ.sə.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). | |||||||
Further reading
- “parsemer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.