éliminer
See also: eliminer
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ēlīmināre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.li.mi.ne/
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Verb
éliminer
Conjugation
Conjugation of éliminer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | éliminer | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | éliminant /e.li.mi.nɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | éliminé /e.li.mi.ne/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | élimine /e.li.min/ |
élimines /e.li.min/ |
élimine /e.li.min/ |
éliminons /e.li.mi.nɔ̃/ |
éliminez /e.li.mi.ne/ |
éliminent /e.li.min/ |
| imperfect | éliminais /e.li.mi.nɛ/ |
éliminais /e.li.mi.nɛ/ |
éliminait /e.li.mi.nɛ/ |
éliminions /e.li.mi.njɔ̃/ |
éliminiez /e.li.mi.nje/ |
éliminaient /e.li.mi.nɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | éliminai /e.li.mi.ne/ |
éliminas /e.li.mi.na/ |
élimina /e.li.mi.na/ |
éliminâmes /e.li.mi.nam/ |
éliminâtes /e.li.mi.nat/ |
éliminèrent /e.li.mi.nɛʁ/ | |
| future | éliminerai /e.li.min.ʁe/ |
élimineras /e.li.min.ʁa/ |
éliminera /e.li.min.ʁa/ |
éliminerons /e.li.min.ʁɔ̃/ |
éliminerez /e.li.min.ʁe/ |
élimineront /e.li.min.ʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | éliminerais /e.li.min.ʁɛ/ |
éliminerais /e.li.min.ʁɛ/ |
éliminerait /e.li.min.ʁɛ/ |
éliminerions /e.li.mi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
élimineriez /e.li.mi.nə.ʁje/ |
élimineraient /e.li.min.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 | élimine /e.li.min/ |
élimines /e.li.min/ |
élimine /e.li.min/ |
éliminions /e.li.mi.njɔ̃/ |
éliminiez /e.li.mi.nje/ |
éliminent /e.li.min/ |
| imperfect2 | éliminasse /e.li.mi.nas/ |
éliminasses /e.li.mi.nas/ |
éliminât /e.li.mi.na/ |
éliminassions /e.li.mi.na.sjɔ̃/ |
éliminassiez /e.li.mi.na.sje/ |
éliminassent /e.li.mi.nas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | élimine /e.li.min/ |
— | éliminons /e.li.mi.nɔ̃/ |
éliminez /e.li.mi.ne/ |
— | |
| 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). | |||||||
Related terms
Further reading
- “éliminer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.