grimper
See also: grîmper
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French grimper, probably from a nasalisation of Middle French gripper, after Middle French ramper (“to crawl”) (see modern ramper), to which it is semantically related.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡʁɛ̃.pe/
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Verb
grimper
Conjugation
Conjugation of grimper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
| infinitive | simple | grimper | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | grimpant /ɡʁɛ̃.pɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | grimpé /ɡʁɛ̃.pe/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | grimpe /ɡʁɛ̃p/ |
grimpes /ɡʁɛ̃p/ |
grimpe /ɡʁɛ̃p/ |
grimpons /ɡʁɛ̃.pɔ̃/ |
grimpez /ɡʁɛ̃.pe/ |
grimpent /ɡʁɛ̃p/ |
| imperfect | grimpais /ɡʁɛ̃.pɛ/ |
grimpais /ɡʁɛ̃.pɛ/ |
grimpait /ɡʁɛ̃.pɛ/ |
grimpions /ɡʁɛ̃.pjɔ̃/ |
grimpiez /ɡʁɛ̃.pje/ |
grimpaient /ɡʁɛ̃.pɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | grimpai /ɡʁɛ̃.pe/ |
grimpas /ɡʁɛ̃.pa/ |
grimpa /ɡʁɛ̃.pa/ |
grimpâmes /ɡʁɛ̃.pam/ |
grimpâtes /ɡʁɛ̃.pat/ |
grimpèrent /ɡʁɛ̃.pɛʁ/ | |
| future | grimperai /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁe/ |
grimperas /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁa/ |
grimpera /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁa/ |
grimperons /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁɔ̃/ |
grimperez /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁe/ |
grimperont /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | grimperais /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁɛ/ |
grimperais /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁɛ/ |
grimperait /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁɛ/ |
grimperions /ɡʁɛ̃.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
grimperiez /ɡʁɛ̃.pə.ʁje/ |
grimperaient /ɡʁɛ̃.pʁɛ/ | |
| (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 | grimpe /ɡʁɛ̃p/ |
grimpes /ɡʁɛ̃p/ |
grimpe /ɡʁɛ̃p/ |
grimpions /ɡʁɛ̃.pjɔ̃/ |
grimpiez /ɡʁɛ̃.pje/ |
grimpent /ɡʁɛ̃p/ |
| imperfect2 | grimpasse /ɡʁɛ̃.pas/ |
grimpasses /ɡʁɛ̃.pas/ |
grimpât /ɡʁɛ̃.pa/ |
grimpassions /ɡʁɛ̃.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
grimpassiez /ɡʁɛ̃.pa.sje/ |
grimpassent /ɡʁɛ̃.pas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | grimpe /ɡʁɛ̃p/ |
— | grimpons /ɡʁɛ̃.pɔ̃/ |
grimpez /ɡʁɛ̃.pe/ |
— | |
| 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
Further reading
- “grimper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.