pimenter
French
Etymology
piment + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.mɑ̃.te/
Audio (file) - Homophones: pimentai, pimenté, pimentée, pimentées, pimentés, pimentez
Verb
pimenter
- (cooking) to spice, to season with spices
- (figuratively) to spice up, to make more extravagant or exotic
Conjugation
Conjugation of pimenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | pimenter | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | pimentant /pi.mɑ̃.tɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | pimenté /pi.mɑ̃.te/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | pimente /pi.mɑ̃t/ | pimentes /pi.mɑ̃t/ | pimente /pi.mɑ̃t/ | pimentons /pi.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/ | pimentez /pi.mɑ̃.te/ | pimentent /pi.mɑ̃t/ |
imperfect | pimentais /pi.mɑ̃.tɛ/ | pimentais /pi.mɑ̃.tɛ/ | pimentait /pi.mɑ̃.tɛ/ | pimentions /pi.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ | pimentiez /pi.mɑ̃.tje/ | pimentaient /pi.mɑ̃.tɛ/ | |
past historic2 | pimentai /pi.mɑ̃.te/ | pimentas /pi.mɑ̃.ta/ | pimenta /pi.mɑ̃.ta/ | pimentâmes /pi.mɑ̃.tam/ | pimentâtes /pi.mɑ̃.tat/ | pimentèrent /pi.mɑ̃.tɛʁ/ | |
future | pimenterai /pi.mɑ̃.tʁe/ | pimenteras /pi.mɑ̃.tʁa/ | pimentera /pi.mɑ̃.tʁa/ | pimenterons /pi.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | pimenterez /pi.mɑ̃.tʁe/ | pimenteront /pi.mɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | pimenterais /pi.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | pimenterais /pi.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | pimenterait /pi.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | pimenterions /pi.mɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/ | pimenteriez /pi.mɑ̃.tə.ʁje/ | pimenteraient /pi.mɑ̃.tʁɛ/ | |
(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 | pimente /pi.mɑ̃t/ | pimentes /pi.mɑ̃t/ | pimente /pi.mɑ̃t/ | pimentions /pi.mɑ̃.tjɔ̃/ | pimentiez /pi.mɑ̃.tje/ | pimentent /pi.mɑ̃t/ |
imperfect2 | pimentasse /pi.mɑ̃.tas/ | pimentasses /pi.mɑ̃.tas/ | pimentât /pi.mɑ̃.ta/ | pimentassions /pi.mɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/ | pimentassiez /pi.mɑ̃.ta.sje/ | pimentassent /pi.mɑ̃.tas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | pimente /pi.mɑ̃t/ | — | pimentons /pi.mɑ̃.tɔ̃/ | pimentez /pi.mɑ̃.te/ | — | |
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
- “pimenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- empirent, empreint