écimer
French
Etymology
From é- + cime + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.si.me/
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Verb
écimer
- (horticulture) to pollard, to prune a tree's top to improve the growth of its lower parts
Conjugation
Conjugation of écimer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive | simple | écimer | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | écimant /e.si.mɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | écimé /e.si.me/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) | present | écime /e.sim/ | écimes /e.sim/ | écime /e.sim/ | écimons /e.si.mɔ̃/ | écimez /e.si.me/ | éciment /e.sim/ |
imperfect | écimais /e.si.mɛ/ | écimais /e.si.mɛ/ | écimait /e.si.mɛ/ | écimions /e.si.mjɔ̃/ | écimiez /e.si.mje/ | écimaient /e.si.mɛ/ | |
past historic2 | écimai /e.si.me/ | écimas /e.si.ma/ | écima /e.si.ma/ | écimâmes /e.si.mam/ | écimâtes /e.si.mat/ | écimèrent /e.si.mɛʁ/ | |
future | écimerai /e.sim.ʁe/ | écimeras /e.sim.ʁa/ | écimera /e.sim.ʁa/ | écimerons /e.sim.ʁɔ̃/ | écimerez /e.sim.ʁe/ | écimeront /e.sim.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | écimerais /e.sim.ʁɛ/ | écimerais /e.sim.ʁɛ/ | écimerait /e.sim.ʁɛ/ | écimerions /e.si.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ | écimeriez /e.si.mə.ʁje/ | écimeraient /e.sim.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 | écime /e.sim/ | écimes /e.sim/ | écime /e.sim/ | écimions /e.si.mjɔ̃/ | écimiez /e.si.mje/ | éciment /e.sim/ |
imperfect2 | écimasse /e.si.mas/ | écimasses /e.si.mas/ | écimât /e.si.ma/ | écimassions /e.si.ma.sjɔ̃/ | écimassiez /e.si.ma.sje/ | écimassent /e.si.mas/ | |
(compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | écime /e.sim/ | — | écimons /e.si.mɔ̃/ | écimez /e.si.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). |
Derived terms
- écimage
Related terms
- cime
Further reading
- “écimer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.