abîmer
See also: abimer
French
Alternative forms
- abimer (post-1990 spelling)
- abymer (archaic)
Etymology
From abime, abîme, from Late Latin *abyssimus < Latin abyssus (“abyss”), from Ancient Greek ἄβυσσος (ábussos, “bottomless pit”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.bi.me/
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Verb
abîmer
- to damage
- 1968, Serge Gainsbourg (lyrics and music), “Bonnie and Clyde”, in Initials B.B., performed by Serge Gainsbourg ft. Brigitte Bardot:
- Il faut croire que c'est la société / Qui m'a définitivement abîmé
- You have to believe that is's society / Which has damaged me for good
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- (takes a reflexive pronoun, formal) to fall down or sink and disappear in a hole, depth, abyss
- (takes a reflexive pronoun, formal) to become absorbed in something (thought, action)
- (rare or archaic) to throw down in a hole, depth etc.
Conjugation
Conjugation of abîmer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | abîmer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | abîmant /a.bi.mɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | abîmé /a.bi.me/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) | present | abîme /a.bim/ | abîmes /a.bim/ | abîme /a.bim/ | abîmons /a.bi.mɔ̃/ | abîmez /a.bi.me/ | abîment /a.bim/ |
| imperfect | abîmais /a.bi.mɛ/ | abîmais /a.bi.mɛ/ | abîmait /a.bi.mɛ/ | abîmions /a.bi.mjɔ̃/ | abîmiez /a.bi.mje/ | abîmaient /a.bi.mɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | abîmai /a.bi.me/ | abîmas /a.bi.ma/ | abîma /a.bi.ma/ | abîmâmes /a.bi.mam/ | abîmâtes /a.bi.mat/ | abîmèrent /a.bi.mɛʁ/ | |
| future | abîmerai /a.bim.ʁe/ | abîmeras /a.bim.ʁa/ | abîmera /a.bim.ʁa/ | abîmerons /a.bim.ʁɔ̃/ | abîmerez /a.bim.ʁe/ | abîmeront /a.bim.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | abîmerais /a.bim.ʁɛ/ | abîmerais /a.bim.ʁɛ/ | abîmerait /a.bim.ʁɛ/ | abîmerions /a.bi.mə.ʁjɔ̃/ | abîmeriez /a.bi.mə.ʁje/ | abîmeraient /a.bim.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 | abîme /a.bim/ | abîmes /a.bim/ | abîme /a.bim/ | abîmions /a.bi.mjɔ̃/ | abîmiez /a.bi.mje/ | abîment /a.bim/ |
| imperfect2 | abîmasse /a.bi.mas/ | abîmasses /a.bi.mas/ | abîmât /a.bi.ma/ | abîmassions /a.bi.ma.sjɔ̃/ | abîmassiez /a.bi.ma.sje/ | abîmassent /a.bi.mas/ | |
| (compound tenses) | past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | abîme /a.bim/ | — | abîmons /a.bi.mɔ̃/ | abîmez /a.bi.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
- “abîmer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.