écimer
French
Etymology
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Related terms
Further reading
- “écimer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.